Theoretical Portfolio

[dipsea]

I'm evaluating this software. My apologies for asking something basic - so far I've missed what I'm looking for in the help and tutorials.

I'd like to create a theoretical portfolio consisting of a number of mutual funds, each representing a certain dollar percentage of the portfolio, and then test its performance over various time periods. I understand how to create and add investments to a portfolio, and how to retrieve historical prices.

I'm not sure how to set the initial dollar percentage each investment represents within the portfolio.

Thank you for any assistance.

[Mark]

Hi dipsea,

With Fund Manager you must enter purchase amounts, you can't directly enter transactions as a percentage of a portfolio's value. So, if you have a $10,000 portfolio with 10 stocks each of 10% of the portfolio, enter a purchase of $1,000 in each stock. You would need to figure out the appropriate number of shares to purchase for the $1,000 based on the market price. To help with this, you can create the investments with 0 shares initially, retrieve prices, and then enter the transactions, so the share price will be filled in for you when you go to record the buy transactions.