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