E*trade provides you two methods to download your trade records to your computer:

To download tax documents of an entire year:

  1. Log into your E*TRADE account .
  2. Click Accounts tab and then select Account Records.
  3. Select Tax Reports in the Brokerage Account Records section.
  4. Click the Tax Records tab and then left-click Export your 200X trades into Microsoft Excel.
  5. Click the Save button in another pop-up File Download dialog box.
  6. Open your saved file in Excel, and click File then choose Save As..in its drop-down-list to save the data file as CSV format.
  7. Your downloaded file must be in this format as shown below.
    TradeDate
    Order Type
    Security
    Amount
    Cusip
    Transaction Description
    Quantity
    Executed Price
    Commission
    Net Amount
    3/8/2009
    Buy
    CROX
    -4272
    227046109
    CROCS INC
    1
    0039KSPT
    12.99
    1162.99

    The data in the above grid is E*trade 2009 format, the following will display E*trade 2010 format:

    Transaction Date
    Transaction Ty
    SecurityTy
    Symbol
    Quantity
    Amount
    Quantity
    Price
    Commission
    Description
    12/22/09
    Bought
    EQ
    CIM
    5000
    -19407.49
    38799
    7.99
    0
    CHIMERA INVESTMENT

    If you find the downloaded file format is different from the above two formats, you should set your profile in Profile Wizard.

  8. Run TradeMax , click E*Trade Account in TradeMax to import trade from local file.Note: You should select E*Trade *. csv, *. txt as your profile name during the importing process. As the file data formats vary from year to year, and in the drop-down-list of Profile Name, besides E*Trade *. csv, *. txt, there is another option E*Trade 2008 *. csv, *. txt for the choice of users according to their data file in different year. The default is E*Trade *. csv, *. txt.

Download Transaction History within three month to update your trade data

  1. Log into your E*TRADE account.
  2. Click Trading & Portfolios > Transaction History.
  3. Click the Transactions tab, select your Brokerage account and then click the Search Transactions button
  4. Enter the specific time range.Attention: You may download up to three months’ worth of data from your account.
  5. Select .QFX format in the data format field and click Download.
  6. Choose the Save option.
  7. Run TradeMax and click E*Trade Account in TradeMax to import trade activity data from local file. Note: You should select Open Financial Exchange *.ofx, *.qfx as your profile name during the importing process.