New Portfolio Wizard

This wizard is available from the File / New Portfolio Wizard... menu command.

Use this wizard to quickly create a new sub-portfolio and any new investments that you want to be included in that sub-portfolio. These new investments can be automatically retrieved from your broker/fund company, or entered manually. The wizard contains the following pages:

Portfolio Properties:

Enter the properties for this new sub-portfolio, and then press "Next". You can always adjust any of these properties later from the Portfolio Properties Dialog.

Online Access:

Use this page to specify if/how to automatically retrieve your transactions/holdings. (See Also: Transaction Retrieve Settings Dialog) If you do not have, or do not wish to use, online access, you can still manually enter your holdings.

Setup Method:

Choose how to setup your new sub-portfolio. You can select any of the following methods (the first 3 are only available if you've enabled online access):

Retrieve Transactions and Positions: Retrieves all available historical transactions, and also adjusts to current positions. All available transactions are imported, and then if necessary, an adjustment transaction will be recorded to get your share balance correct as of the current date. An adjustment transaction will only be necessary when all historical transactions were not available. Some brokers/fund companies only keep historical transactions available for a limited time. Example: Assume you've purchased 10 shares per month for the last 36 months, so you currently own 360 shares. When historical transactions were retrieved, data for only the last 24 months was available, so the available transactions can only account for 240 of the 360 shares. Fund Manager will record an additional purchase of 120 shares at the beginning of this time period, so your current share balance will be correct. If desired, you can later go back and manually edit/delete this adjustment transaction, and replace it with the actual transaction data.
Retrieve Transactions Only: Works similar to the above 'Retrieve Transactions and Positions' method, but does not ever record any 'adjustment transactions'. If all of your historical transactions are not available on the broker/fund company's server, your current holdings may not be accurate until you manually add any missing transactions.
Retrieve Positions Only: Retrieves your current holdings from your broker or mutual fund company. No historical transactions are imported, only a purchase on today's date for the current share balance of each investment is recorded. You will be given the opportunity to manually enter the cost basis for each investment, as this data is not available when retrieving positions.
Manually Enter Positions: Manually enter all your current investments, their share balance, and cost basis. You can leave the share balance/cost basis at 0 if you wish to manually enter all historical transactions after setting up the sub-portfolio.

Add New Investments:

This page is only available when manually entering holdings, or when retrieving only positions. Use this page to create any new investments that will be included in this sub-portfolio. Place a check in the "Add" button and fill in the information for that investment. The "Cost Basis" column should be entered as a total dollar value, and not as a per-share price. To assign more detailed investment properties to this investment click the "..." button at the end of the row. To choose a folder where the new investment files will be saved, choose the "Advanced..." button. To create more than 10 investments just fill up all of the currently displayed investments and hit "Next". You can then continue to add more. When you're done, click the "Next" button. You can always add/delete investments to this sub-portfolio at a later time also. The Portfolio Editor is a good way to manage the investments in your sub-portfolios.

Retrieved Investments:

This page is only available when retrieving transactions or transactions + positions. View details on all of the retrieved investments. You may modify the Name/Symbol on this page. The current share balance is displayed. To assign more detailed investment properties to this investment click the "..." button at the end of the row. To choose a folder where the new investment files will be saved, choose the "Advanced..." button. You can always add/delete investments to this sub-portfolio at a later time using the Portfolio Editor. Use the Data Register to view/add/edit your transaction data.

Price Retrieve:

Use this page to update prices for your new investments. You can choose any quote server to use for retrieving prices, but the default is a historical server, so you can get historical prices for these investments. Choose the "Advanced" button if you'd like to switch to a different quote server. To do the price retrieve, leave the "Yes" option selected, and choose the "Retrieve Now..." button. The status of how many investments were updated will be displayed. Click "Next" when you are done retrieving prices. If you did not retrieve any prices you will be given the chance to manually enter a price for each investment.

Default Cash Account:

If you'd like to have a default cash account assigned to this sub-portfolio, pick it from the list. Otherwise, leave "(none)" selected. When retrieving transactions, you will also see the option to "Record Corresponding Entries for All Retrieved Transactions In Default Cash Account". Selecting this option will cause an addition/subtraction to/from the selected cash account for any retrieved transaction that creates/uses cash.

Select New Portfolio Location:

Select where in the sub-portfolio hierarchy this new sub-portfolio should be created.