PortTrak 2.0 - Dealing with Data, Transaction Log

PortTrak keeps a Transaction Log of all closed transactions. When you sell a stock, you close a transaction that began with the purchase. When you cover a short, you close a transaction that began with a short. Anytime you close a transaction, PortTrak will record it for you.

For example, if I owned 100 shares of XYZ, and I sold 35 of them, PortTrak would record the closing of 35 shares, including the cost basis and the capital gain for those 35 shares. If later on I were to sell another 50 shares, those would be recorded as a separate closed transaction.

Since the transaction log is for your own benefit, feel free to delete as much or as little of it as you'd like. Just make sure that if you delete part of a line, you delete the entire line.

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