Google
searches produce nothing useful, so I would like to ask this question
of frequent swing and day traders: what software do you use to track
trade results (closed trades especially but also open trades)? Does it
include calculation and display of a total resulting equity curve?
Does it help in any way for collecting and exporting reports for use at
tax time? Does it integrate with Amibroker or is standalone? Please
note that I am not asking about the backtesting and resulting listing
of trades and their statistics in Amibroker, but rather the recording
of real trades made and closed over time.
As
background to the questions, as I consider a more frequent trading
system compared to mutual funds and positions held for many weeks if
not multiple months, one that might make trades lasting weeks at most
and perhaps only days, my mind boggles at the recordkeeping involved.
With potential trade volumes in the 10 to 30 per week, the data entry
starts to seem formidible. Surely some (many?) on this list do this
all the time, and I would appreciate knowing something about your
recordkeeping system(s), not your timing systems (:-o).
Now before
TJ jumps in here, I just reviewed the AB Account Manager Help page.
This seems like it is what I am asking for, but I wonder if anyone uses
it for their real work, and if its "limitations" (one level of undo,
chronological entry order, not clear whether reports can be exported or
not) inhibit it for the purpose I am asking about. If you use
something else, it must offer benefits pveer the built-in Account
Manager---what are they?
Is this
enough information for you to respond? Thanks for sharing.
Ken