Handle your wash sales and generator your Schedule D

Security View helps you manage symbols after you import trade into TradeMax.

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Basic Function
1. Security Panel	Security Panel is designed to help you quickly manage symbols.
2. Security Grid	Security Grid is the main section where users are able to manage their symbols after they import their trades into TradeMax.
3. Security Tree	The Security List is designed to help you quickly find symbols. There are ten Symbol types: Stock STK Call Option=Stock Call Option STK Put Option=Stock Put Option STK Future=Stock Future Fund Commodities Currency Sect.1256 Future=Section.1256 Future Sect.1256 Call Option=Section.1256 Call Option Sect.1256 Put Option=Section.1256 Put Option
	If you select the Security in the Security Panel or Quick Access panel,you will get the Security List (similar to the picture above). Symbols are organized in logical groups that are collected together under tabs.
4. Group By Panel	Drag a column header here to group by that column.
5. Quick Access Bar	Click one alphabet button to go to the specific trades beginning with the specific alphabet.

Security Panel

Security Panel is designed to help you quickly manage symbols.

 

Basic Function
Actions Group	Append	Append a symbol
	Edit	Edit your symbol records
	Delete	Delete selected symbol records
	Price	You have to select the specific security, then download the price of holding security in latest time .
	Market	Download Exchange Market for a symbol
	Save	Save the symbol record (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL + S)
Clipboard Group	Undo	Undo the last action (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL +Z/ALT + Backspace)
	Redo	Redo the previously undo action (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL +Y)
View Group	Group By Box	Press the Group By Box button to activate the Group By panel which is at the top of the data grid.It allows grouping data by single or multiple columns. You can either set grid column(s) that will be used for grouping, or enable Group By Box where grouped columns may be dropped at runtime
	Field Chooser	Press the Field Chooser button to activate the Field Chooser box floating above the data grid.The built-in Filed Chooser provides a simple and efficient way to organize the grid layout: you can drag and drop the column header to the chooser from the grid header. You can also drag any required field from the chooser and drop it either on the grid header, or on the group box.
	Outlook Bar	Hide or display the Security List
	Column Auto-Resize	Allow TradeMax to automatically resize columns in the data grid.
Help Button	Click Help Button to get Help Document.( Keyboard Shortcuts: F1)

 

Trade View help you quickly manage your trade data/trade account and prepare your Schedule D.

Basic Function
1. Trade Panel	Trade Panel is designed to help you quickly manage accounts and trades.
2. Trade Grid	Trade Grid is the main section where users are able to view and interact with their trades.
3. Broker Account Tree	The Account List is designed to help you quickly find the accounts or data View. There are five Brokerage types: Standard Brokerage account—– General investing account that helps you build and manage a diversified portfolio. Standard Brokerage accounts can be individual, joint, custodial, or business accounts. IRA or Keogh account—- Special accounts that allow saving taxes deferred until money is withdrawn. These plans are subject to frequent changes in law with respect to the deductibility of contributions. Withdrawals of tax-deferred contributions are taxed as income, including the capital gains from such accounts. 529 College Saving Plans—- A tax-advantaged investment program that can be used to fund a child’s higher education at any accredited U.S. post-secondary school. Plans are established by individual states but are typically available nationwide. UGMA/UTMAs— A brokerage account that allows you to invest on behalf of a minor. Funds can be used for any expense the child incurs, not just education. Ultimately, the child assumes ownership of the account, with a portion of withdrawals taxed at their rate. Single Mutual Fund— A account is professionally managed and can be a simplified way to diversify a portfolio.
	If you select the Trade in the Trade Panel or Quick Access panel,you will get the Account List (similar to the picture above). Accounts are organized in logical groups that are collected together under tabs.
4. Group By Panel	Drag a column header here to group by that column.
5. Time Range Filter	First select the Begin and End Date then press the Apply button to filter the trades within a period.
6. Preset View	TradeMax provides the frequently-used view for the data grid. You can select one from the Preset view dropdown list or skip it if you like.
7.Quick Access Bar	Click one alphabet button to go to the specific trades beginning with the specific alphabet.

 

Trade Panel

Trade Panel is designed to help you quickly manage accounts and trades. 

 

 

Basic Function
Actions Group	Import	Import trade history
	Append	Append a trade
	Edit	Edit your trade records
	Delete	Delete selected trade records
	Price	1. Download the Price of holding securities in the end of specific Finance year ( used for unrealized G/L Report)2. Download Put Options’ underlying stock price on the day before transaction date. (Used for Checking the Put Option is in-the-money)
	Market	Download Exchange Market for a symbol
	Scan	Scan the status of transactions in the current data grid and the concerned trades will be highlighted in red or green:1. Red records indicate the error transaction:a.If there is no position on hold, a close action(Sale to Close, Buy to Cover) will generate errors.b.when option exercised or assigned, the strike price of the option didn’t match the underlying stock trade price.c. When option exercised or assigned, the quantity of the option didn’t match the underlying stock trade quantity..d. When the option expired, the close price is not zero.e. Missing/Inconsistent Data fields by using Qty, Price, Commission, Fees and Rate information. 2. Green records indicate that the closed transactions (A Sale to Close, a Buy to Cover ) close all your holding open position. Note: You should manually adjust the action , quantity, sequence of the trade to correct these errors.
	Save	Save the trade record (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL + S)
Clipboard Group	Copy	Copy selected trade records (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL + C)
	Paste	Paste selected trade records to specific field (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL + V)
	Undo	Undo the last action (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL +Z/ALT + Backspace)
	Redo	Redo the previously undo action (Keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL +Y)
	Backup	Backup a data file
	Restore	Restore a backup file
	Up	Move the transaction records traded on the same day up
	Down	Move the transaction records of same date down
View Group	Group By Box	Press the Group By Box button to activate the Group By panel which is at the top of the data grid.It allows grouping data by single or multiple columns. You can either set grid column(s) that will be used for grouping, or enable Group By Box where grouped columns may be dropped at runtime
	Field Chooser	Press the Field Chooser button to activate the Field Chooser box floating above the data grid.The built-in Filed Chooser provides a simple and efficient way to organize the grid layout: you can drag and drop the column header to the chooser from the grid header. You can also drag any required field from the chooser and drop it either on the grid header, or on the group box.
	Outlook Bar	Hide or display the Account List
	Column Auto-Resize	Allow TradeMax to automatically resize columns in the data grid.
Help Button	Click Help Button to get Help Document.( Keyboard Shortcuts: F1)

 

Security Grid (refer to the picture below) is the main part of the Security View where users are able to manage symbols.

Part One: Overview the Security Grid.

This part will show you the main function of each section.

Section 1: Group By Panel

Drag a column header here to group by that column.

Section 2: Symbol Grid

Symbol Grid helps the users view the symbols.

Section 3: Quick Access Bar

Click one alphabet button to go to the specific trades beginning with the specific alphabet.

Section 4: Meaning of Column Headers

Column Headers	Basic Function
Symbol Name	Security Ticker Symbol
Underlying Stock	The stock on which an option is written, giving the option holder the right to buy or sell.
Type	Security Type: Stock Stock Call Option(STK Call Option) Stock Put Option(STK Put Option) Stock Future(STK Future) Fund Commodities Currency Section.1256 Future(Sect.1256 Future) Section.1256 Call Option(Sect.1256 Call Option) Section.1256 Put Option(Sect.1256 Put Option)
Rate	An option has a 100 “Rate” which means an option contract is for 100 shares of the underlying stock
Strike Price	The strike price of the underlying stock in the option or future
Expire Date	Expire date of option or future.
Exchange Market	The exchange market where you bought the financial product. For instance, NASDAQ
Notes	Any information of the product.

Part Two: How to view and append a symbol?

This part will show you how to view and append a symbol.

The Quick Access Toolbar is a customizable toolbar that contains a set of tool and command shortcuts.

• Move the Quick Access Tool bar to the area below the Ribbon.
• Right-click on icons or options within Ribbon to add the tools and commands to the Quick Access Toolbar.
• Use More Commands to add shortcuts from a list of every TradeMax option.
• Hide the commands under the ribbon tabs by clicking the Minimize the Ribbon
  
• Use to undo the last action or redo the previously undo action

Change the Location of the Quick Access Toolbar

1. Click on the Quick Access Toolbar.
2. In the list, click Show Below the Ribbon

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1. Click on Quick Access Toolbar.
2. In the list, click Show Above the Ribbon.

Quickly Add a Tool or Command

 

1. Right-click on a tool or command in a ribbon tab.
2. Click Add to Quick Access Toolbar.

Remove a Tool or Command

1. Right-click on a tool or command in the Quick Access Toolbar.
2. Click Remove from Quick Access Toolbar.

Customize the Quick Access Toolbar

1. Click on the Quick Access Toolbar.
2. In the list, click More Commands

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1. Right-click on a tool or command in a ribbon tab or Quick Access Toolbar.
2. Click Customize Quick Access Toolbar

You will get the following box:

Basic Function
1. Choose commands	From the dropdown list, you can select the category which the commands belong. The categories are Main Menu, Preset View, Trade, Calendar etc.
2. Commands List	Lists the commands which belong to the chose category in the Choose commands from.
3	Select the checkbox to show the Access Toolbar below the Ribbon
4. Keyboard	Press the Customize button to customize the keyboard shortcuts
5. Add & Remove Button	Add commands from the Commands List box to the Tool List or remove commands from the Tool List.
6. Reset Button	Reset the setting of the Quick Access Toolbar
7. Tool List	Show the commands in the Quick Access Toolbar
8. Arrow Button	Change the order of the commands in the left Tool List box.

 

 

Section 1: Preset View

TradeMax provides the frequently-used view of the data grid. You can select one from the Preset View‘ dropdown list or skip it if you like.

Option	Description
Default	Last selected Preset View
Tradesimple	Display trade records with the frequently-used trade parameters
Tradefull	Display trade records with the entire trade parameters
GroupbySymbol	Provides you the data grid grouped by symbol
Checkaction	Provides you a convenient way to check the Action and the ActionName by positioning together the two columns to the left of the data grid
Finance	Display all cash flow trade records . Additionally, the data grid is grouped by Action.
Optiontrade	Display all option related trade records
GroupByAction	Provides you the data grid grouped by Action

 

Note:

• The data grid is grouped by TradeDate by default.
• If you customize the appearance of data grid manually and can’t find some column headers, you can get back your entire column header by selecting the option TradeFull in the Preset View or use Field Chooser function to drag column header back.

 

 

 

Symbols grid will automatically display relationship between an option and a stock after you import your trades into TradeMax.

• Append a specific symbol
• Edit a symbol
• Consolidate a symbol
• You can also group, sort, costomize the Symbol grid like a trade

Click the Security in the Security Panel.

 

e.g.: Choose Symbol> Stock on the Security list.

The Symbol grid shows below:

 

Basic Function
1. Group By Box	Drag a column header here to group by that column
2.Symbol Grid	Symbol Grid is the main section where users are able to view their symbols
3. Quick Access Bar	Click one alphabet button to go to the specific trades beginning with the specific alphabet.

 

Under the Symbol, you can also do the following if it needs.
Append a Symbol

• Click Append button in Security Panel
• A popup dialog box allows you to record Symbol below:
  

  Option	Basic Function
  Symbol Name	Enter the symbol’s name
  Underlying Stock	Enter your underlying stock’s name of the symbol. If it is not an option, you can skip this field.
  Rate	An option has a 100 “Rate” which means an option contract is for 100 shares of the underlying stock.
  Type	From Type dropdown list to select the type of the financial product.
  Strike Price	Only available when the symbol is an option or future.
  Expire Date	Only available when the symbol is an option or future.
  Exchange Market	Enter the exchange market where you bought the financial product. For instance, NASDAQ
  Notes	Any information of the product.

  There are 10 kinds of Symbol types: Stock, Stock Call Option, Stock Put Option, Stock Future, Fund, Commodities, Currency, Section.1256 Future, Section.1256 Call Option, Section.1256 Put Option.

Section 2: Group By Panel

If you want group by some specific column header, you can drag a column header to Group By Panel. It will display only when you press the Group By Box button under the Trade tab one the View group box like the following picture:

Learn more about: How to custom the grid.

Notes:

• Press the Group By Box button to activate the Group By Panel which is at the top of the data grid. It allows grouping data by single or multiple columns. You can either set grid column(s) that will be used for grouping, or enable Group By Box where grouped columns may be dropped at runtime.
• Press the Field Chooser to activate the Field Chooser box floating above the data grid. The built-in Filed Chooser provides a simple and efficient way to organize the grid layout: you can drag and drop the column header to the chooser from the grid header. You can also drag any required field from the chooser and drop it either on the grid header, or on the group box.
• The Column Auto-Resize used to resize your columns automatically according to the length of the field.

 

 

With this function, you can download holding security prices from the Internet that you track in TradeMax, view the price history to monitor the performance of the securities in a certain period of time, which help you to better make your investment. 

TradeMax will download single security’s price or several securities’ prices in a specific period of time .

1. In Security View, click the Price button in Ribbon field.
   • Download Selected- TradeMax will download the price of the selected securities (you have to select the securities to activate this option first)
   • Download All- TradeMax will download the price of all securities in trade grid



Learn more about: How to select trade records.

2. A dialog box pops up, and then click Download button to continue the process, the price of the symbol will be downloaded.
   

   Function	Description
   1.Begin date End date	You can choose the date from the dropdown calendar or manually enter the date
   2.Symbol	The security name you selected in previous step.
   3.Date	It will display the current day when you download the price of the symbol.
   4.Price	The price of the selected symbols on current day.
   5.Status	It will display whether the symbol’s price is successfully downloaded or not
   6. Symbol failed to download the price	TradeMax was unable to get the price of some securities because the ticker symbol is incorrect or has been changed.

3. After downloading the price of the security, you can get the data of symbols’ price history.
   • Click thePrice History Tab , the above Price History Grid extends .
   • You can activate the checkbox to set the Begin Date and End Date .
   • Select the specific security record, the dialog box will display the price history in the specific period. (For example, select PTEN , the Price History Grid displays the price history of PTEN from 09/02/2009 to 09/23/2009. )

Section 3: Time Range Filter

With Time Range Filter, you can filter the trades within a period. You just need to select BeginDate and EndDate.

Take the BeginDate as an example.

• Select the BeginDate checkbox to activate this function
• Select the date from the dropdown calendar.
  you can also use the left-arrow and the right-arrow to change the year
• Click month, day or year and use the up-arrow or down-arrow far right of the date to select the specific date.
• You can also manually enter the date with you keyboard.Cick the field of that you want to change and enter the date with your keyboard as the following instruction.
  TradeMax provides you the date format month/day/year/hour/minutes/am (pm). (refer to the above picture)

  Field/Button	Valid range	Comments
  Month	–	The month as a number or an English month names in short form (e.g. Jan.). Just type the initials letter of the month some times according to the sequence in the 12 month to get the right month. For example, Jan-type j one time; Jun-type j two times; Jul-type j there times
  Day	1-31	The date of month
  Year	1999-2090	Please enter the last two digits of the year (e.g. 2007, just enter 07)
  Hour	0–12	It is a 12-hour format, with “am” or “pm” after the number.
  Minutes	0–59	Minutes
  am/pm	–	Enter the letter a to display the am and enter the p to display the pm

 

 

After downloading the price history of the holding security, TradeMax provides you a powerful function to Add, Edit, Delete the related record of the security in Price History Grid.

 How to add a new price record?

If the price history of certain security you download is not complete or failed, you can manually add the price record so as to better make your investment.

1. To add a new price record of specific security, you should right click the blank field in Price History Grid, then choose Add from the menu.



2. A dialog box pops up:



Function	Description
1.Symbol	The specific security name
2.Price Date	You can set the price date from the dropdown calendar.
3.Price	Enter the price of the security you want to add

3. After Pressing OK button, the new record outlined in red generates in the grid.

 

How to edit price record?

If the price of specific security is incorrect, you can edit the price to get more useful information.

1. To edit price of a specific security, you should select the price record you want to edit.
2. Right click the selected record, then choose Edit from the list.



3. A dialog box pops up:



Function	Description
1.Symbol	The specific security name
2.Price Date	The default date of the selected security.
3.Price	Enter the correct price of the security you want to add

 

4. After Pressing OK button, the new record outlined in red generates in the grid. 
   

 

How to delete price record?

If one or several price records of your price history is useless, you can delete the price record with several clicks.

1. To delete a price record of a specific security, you should select the record you want to delete.
2. Right click the selected record,  then choose Delete from the menu.



3. A dialog box pops up:



4. Click YES button to confirm your process, the record will be deleted from the grid.