Record what you actually bought and sold, and find out what it actually returned — against a benchmark, after brokerage, with the tax position worked out parcel by parcel.
Most investors know their winners and misremember everything else. A spreadsheet drifts, a broker's statement only covers the broker, and neither tells you whether two years of work beat simply holding the index. This does: every trade produces tax-lot parcels, every parcel is priced after each close, and the whole history is measured both ways — with and without the timing of the money you put in.
It is built for the Australian market specifically. Parcels, the 12-month CGT discount, franking credits, financial years that end in June, brokerage that includes GST, and corporate actions that restate a holding without resetting the clock on it.
This is the sample portfolio every new member starts with if they want one — a hindsight-picked run of ASX momentum trades from September 2024, winners ridden and losers cut, priced from real closes. The figures below are what the product computed from it on the date shown. They are frozen, so nothing here moves under you; they are also not a recommendation, a forecast, or anybody's actual account.
Cumulative time-weighted return since inception, against the portfolio's chosen benchmark. Price return only — dividends are excluded on both sides, and reported separately on the income tab.
| Code | Quantity | Avg cost | Price | Value | Capital gain | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TEA TASMEA LIMITED | 4,282 | $1.75 | $9.20 | $39,394.40 | $31,895.90 | 26.3% |
MP1 MEGAPORT LIMITED | 1,861 | $7.11 | $17.51 | $32,586.11 | $19,349.40 | 21.7% |
CMM CAPRICORN METALS LTD | 1,298 | $5.77 | $17.78 | $23,078.44 | $15,583.98 | 15.4% |
MIN MINERAL RESOURCES LIMITED | 333 | $23.95 | $66.89 | $22,274.37 | $14,300.68 | 14.9% |
VAU VAULT MINERALS LIMITED | 2,930 | $2.54 | $6.99 | $20,481.01 | $13,033.70 | 13.7% |
GHY GOLD HYDROGEN LIMITED | 12,461 | $0.53 | $0.55 | $6,853.55 | $244.22 | 4.6% |
ELS ELSIGHT LIMITED | 904 | $1.82 | $5.77 | $5,216.08 | $3,568.30 | 3.5% |
Open positions only, largest first. Average cost is the parcels' actual cost base per share, brokerage included — not the price on the contract note.
A few seconds each, back-dated as far as you like. Buys, sells, dividends and the corporate actions — splits, consolidations, demergers, capital returns, bonus issues — that a trade list alone cannot express.
CSV exports from CommSec, NABtrade, SelfWealth, Stock Doctor, Interactive Brokers, Stake and others. Column names are matched loosely, dates are read Australian, duplicates are flagged against what you already hold, and every row is shown for review before a single trade is written.
A read-only reporting token, and new trades appear each evening. It is the only Australian broker with an interface that permits this. We check the token's expiry for you and say so before it lapses, rather than letting the sync quietly stop.
Every buy creates a parcel. Every sell is matched against them by the method you choose — oldest first, newest first, smallest gain, largest gain, and four more, including picking the parcels by hand on a single disposal. Change the method and every sell you have already recorded is re-matched.
What comes out is a capital gains schedule per financial year: discounted and non-discounted gains separated, current-year losses applied before prior-year ones, losses carried forward, and every disposal listed with its acquisition date and cost base. Franked and unfranked income is totalled beside it with the franking credits attached.
It is a report, not a return, and it only knows about what you have recorded here. Not tax advice.
When you have checked a period against your own statements, set a reconciled-to date. Everything on or before it is locked: a trade inside that window cannot be edited, deleted, or moved across the line in either direction, and neither can the settings that decide how parcels are matched. The figures you reported stay the figures you reported.
Alongside it, a journal. Why you bought, why you sold, what you would do differently — attached to a date and, if you like, to a security. It feeds nothing and changes no number, which is exactly the point: it is the only place in the app where you can be honest without it affecting a calculation.
You can give another member a read-only view: holdings and cost bases, performance, income, transactions. They cannot record anything, change a setting, or share it onwards, and your capital gains schedule, reconcile worklist and journal notes are never included. Invitations are addressed by forum alias rather than email address — so nobody can be found by guessing at addresses — and nothing is visible until they accept. Revoke it whenever you like.
Your holdings are not a separate world from the screens next door. The securities table carries each position's relative strength percentile, its Weinstein stage, the three trend gauges and any entry-bar signal that fired — the same figures, from the same nightly pipelines, as the scanner and the leadership map. So the question "is what I own still leading?" is answered on the page where you own it.
That is the argument for keeping a portfolio here rather than in a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet can tell you what you paid. It cannot tell you that the position you are largest in has rolled over.
No, and it is not tax advice. It is a capital gains schedule and an income summary built from the trades and dividends you record here, in the form an Australian investor or their accountant expects: parcels matched by your chosen method, the 12-month CGT discount applied where it is due, losses carried forward, and franking credits totalled. It knows nothing about assets you hold elsewhere. Take it to your accountant; do not file it unread.
Three ways. Type them, which takes a few seconds per trade and is what most people do for a handful of positions. Upload a CSV export from your broker — we read the standard exports from CommSec, NABtrade, SelfWealth, Stock Doctor, Interactive Brokers and others, and every row is shown for you to review before anything is recorded. Or connect Interactive Brokers, which is the one Australian broker offering a read-only reporting interface a third party can use, and new trades arrive on their own each evening.
They are recorded as their own kind of entry, and the parcels restate the way your holding actually did — a rolled parcel keeps its original acquisition date, which is what decides your CGT discount. This matters more than it sounds: a broker's trade file almost never contains corporate actions, so an imported history is complete only for someone who has never held a stock through one. We say so on the import screen rather than letting a cost base be quietly wrong.
Because they answer different questions. The time-weighted return strips out the timing of money you added or withdrew, which is how you compare yourself against an index. The money-weighted return keeps it, which is how you measure what your own decisions actually earned. They can differ sharply, and they are measured over different windows — a time-weighted return can only measure days we could price — so we show both and say which is which.
Yes, read-only, by forum alias rather than email address, and only once the other person accepts. They see holdings, performance, income and transactions; your capital gains schedule, your reconcile worklist and your journal notes stay private to you. You can revoke access at any time.
Portfolio tracking is part of the Pro plan, alongside the VCP Model Book, the daily scanner, the trend gauges and the stage-analysis leadership map.
General information only, not financial advice —see full disclaimer.
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