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TradeAccountant ProTM 3.4

Quick Start Guide

TA 3.4 - Quick Start Guide

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Table of Contents

About TradeAccountant ProTM3.4 .............................................................................................. 5

About the Document .................................................................................................................. 5

What’s New................................................................................................................................ 6

Installation Requirements .......................................................................................................... 7 Before You Start ....................................................................................................................................7 System Requirements ...........................................................................................................................7

Getting Started........................................................................................................................... 8

TA Pro Controls and Tools ........................................................................................................ 8 (1) Menu Bar ..................................................................................................................................8 (2) Toolbar .....................................................................................................................................8 (3) Navigation Bar ..........................................................................................................................8 (4) Display Mode............................................................................................................................9 (5) Display View .............................................................................................................................9 (6) Date Range Types....................................................................................................................9

Quick Guide to Setup Account and Add Transactions............................................................. 11 Step 1- Account Setup.........................................................................................................................11 Step 2: Defining Security Symbols ......................................................................................................12 Step 3: Selecting Transaction Type ....................................................................................................14 Step 4: Adding Transaction .................................................................................................................15

Accounts .................................................................................................................................. 18 Accounts Screen Overview .................................................................................................................18

Transactions ............................................................................................................................ 20 Transactions Screen Overview ...........................................................................................................20

Groups ..................................................................................................................................... 21 Groups Screen Overview ....................................................................................................................21 View Grouped Transactions ................................................................................................................21 Group Transactions Manually .............................................................................................................21

Performance ............................................................................................................................ 24 Monitoring Performance ......................................................................................................................24

Tax Reports ............................................................................................................................. 28

Research ................................................................................................................................. 29

Working with Options............................................................................................................... 30 Exercise/Assign/Expire Options ............................................................................................................30 Assign / Exercise Equity Options...........................................................................................................31 Expire Equity Options ...........................................................................................................................32 Expire Index Options.............................................................................................................................32

Expire Old Option Contracts ....................................................................................................32

Reminder Discovery Process .................................................................................................. 33


Corporate Events..................................................................................................................... 35

Journal Out Events .................................................................................................................. 36

Mark -to -Market Event Adjustments ....................................................................................... 37

Reconciliation .......................................................................................................................... 39 Reconcile an Account ...........................................................................................................................39 Sequence Error Discovery ....................................................................................................................40 Long/Short Transaction Discovery.........................................................................................................41 Original Lot Discovery ...........................................................................................................................42 Reconcile Gain/Loss .............................................................................................................................43 Reconcile Transactions.........................................................................................................................44 Invalid Baseline Discovery Process .......................................................................................................48

Transfer Account/Transactions................................................................................................ 50

Customizing Properties............................................................................................................ 51 1. URLs ...........................................................................................................................................51 2. Wash Sales.................................................................................................................................51 3. Corporate Event..........................................................................................................................51 4. Risk Profile..................................................................................................................................52 5. Duplicates ...................................................................................................................................52 6. Date Preferences ........................................................................................................................52 7. Decimal Precision .......................................................................................................................52 8. Column Controls .........................................................................................................................52 Synchronize Transactions ...................................................................................................................53 Sync. Password Change Request.......................................................................................................53 Sync. Date Range Settings .................................................................................................................54 Update Market Price............................................................................................................................55

Duplicate Transactions Discovery ........................................................................................... 56

Cancelled Transaction - Removal............................................................................................ 58

Lock/UnLock Groups ............................................................................................................... 59

Backup and Restore ................................................................................................................ 60 Performing Backups ............................................................................................................................60 Restoring Data from a Backup ............................................................................................................60

Import Options ......................................................................................................................... 62

Export Options ......................................................................................................................... 62

Support .................................................................................................................................... 64


About TradeAccountant ProTM3.4 TradeAccountant ProTM3.4 is a dynamic application that captures and imports client’s trade data, groups related trades together, generates gain/loss reports automatically, exports data to variety of tax softwares for easier tax preparation, and executes many other important tasks - right from your desktop. Designed by the most professional traders for the most active traders to get speed, precision, and control over transactions and best of market opportunities.

About the Document The document describes the useful features and functionalities of different screens, dialog boxes and menus available within TradeAccountant ProTM3.4. It also briefs the steps involved in setting up accounts, initiating transactions, defining Option’s events and various other transaction processes.


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What’s New The following are the enhanced features you can get through this release:

View the status of reconciliation process and take necessary steps prior to the generation

of schedule D.

View the status of the transactions reconciled and update reconciliation 1099 status.

Download your transaction history from multiple brokerage accounts in various advanced

formats; such as Quicken, Microsoft Money, Excel or Text files.

Export/e-mail the data and the Schedule D type content to multiple tax and accounting

softwares.

Generate Schedule D, 4797, 6781 reports for any time period to suit the tax or other

requirements.

Assign symbols to securities prior to creating transactions for precision and control over

transactions.

Modify trades by Lot Matching, Sequence Error Discovery, Removal of Cancelled Trades,

Short Sale Discovery, Duplicate Discovery, Mark to Market Adjustments, Journal In,

Corporate Events etc.

Automate and simplify Wash Sale Adjustment by turning dates on or off. Also view the

Wash Sale Event report to gain insight.

Locate and modify transactions such as, Duplicate, Short/Long and also Transfer

from one account to another.

Monitor unrealized transactions through Risk Profiles and Watch List screens.

Monitor your gain/loss performance through interactive graphs charts etc.

Manage the risk levels by specifying risk parameters and monitoring through

embedded filter controls.

Customize account properties through various enhanced features.

Compile data for reports and exports by adjusting decimals up to six digits points.

Import and apply updated security prices and currency conversion rates to the

transactions.

Discover and combine transactions to form Original lots.

Take precautionary data backup and restore the backups.

Lock/Unlock Groups for specific time periods to control the affect on the gain/loss

results.


Installation Requirements

Before You Start Before installing TradeAccountant ProTM3.4 make sure your computer meets the following requirements:

System Requirements

• Windows 98se/NT4/ME/2000/XP/ Windows Server 2003

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

• Pentium 300 MHz or faster

• 64MB RAM

• Hard disk with a minimum of 300MB free space

• SVGA video card supporting 800 x 600 resolution, 256 colors or greater

• Windows compatible mouse

• Windows compatible keyboard

• Windows compatible printer

• Internet access



Getting Started

To start the application, click on the following icon on your desktop:

By default, you may come across the Accounts screen. It presents the snapshot of the account

created before and also displays shortcut links for some common features.

TA Pro Controls and Tools Follow are the main application tools that help you to perform different functions and work on the

application, as illustrated in Figure 2 below:

(1) Menu Bar The Menu Bar – like MS Windows – provides access to all the menus of the TradeAccountant

Pro.

(2) Toolbar The Toolbar items are activated depending upon the current screen. For example, Print/Print Preview items are active for Transaction, Performance, Groups and Tax Reports screens

only. Following are the main items on the toolbar:

Reconcile Gain/Loss: Launches the reconciliation wizard to help you reconcile your

account prior to the generation of Schedule D report.

TA Properties: The icon ( ) takes to the TA Properties dialog box from where you can

change the general settings of your account, such as decimal precision, report format,

column settings, corporate event, etc. Page Description: Takes to the online help of the current screen. Helpful Advice: Shows a helpful advice according to the selected screen.

(3) Navigation Bar The application incorporates the horizontal Navigation Bar with six tabs on the top. The tabs

help to easily navigate to different screens and work on the application.

Figure 1 – The six navigation tabs on the Navigation Bar



Figure 2 – Screenshot highlighting the control tools of the application on the Transactions screen

(4) Display Mode Presents two options to filter out and view the data:

• All Symbols (show multiple symbols) – Presents the transaction’s detail of all the

symbols defined against the selected account.

• By Symbol (show one symbol) – Presents the transaction’s detail of any specific

symbol selected from the left side of the screen.

Note: The left frame appears only when this option is selected.

(5) Display View Presents different types of views to monitor or perform various functions. The views differ based

on the navigation tab selected.

(6) Date Range Types The different Date Range options incorporated within TA helps to tailor and view the data specific

to your requirement:

• From and Two Dates – Time period is classified as per calendar period from where you

can select your required duration.



• Year and Tax Period – Time period is classified according to different tax periods.

• From Date and Period – Time period is divided into different time spans, such as daily,

weekly, quarterly, monthly etc. You can scroll to the next or previous periods to view the

data.

Note: This option is available only for the Performance screen.



Quick Guide to Setup Account and Add Transactions

The sections below give the systematic guide to set up an account, define security symbols and

initiate transactions:

Step 1- Account Setup Before you can enter transactions, you must first set up an account. The process of setting up

accounts in TradeAccountant Pro is unique per brokerage firm. Some provide synchronization

download option while others don’t. Some may require your account number, log-in user ID, and

password from the broker’s website. The required fields are automatically activated based on the

selection of the financial institution.

Add Account The Add Account dialog (Figure 3) box is used to add or modify account details. An account

represents any account of a user with a financial institution. The user can download the

transaction data from that account using the Synchronization procedure.

Page Access To invoke the Add Account dialog box, do one of the following:

1. Click on Add button within the Accounts page of TradeAccountant Pro.

2. Choose Edit Account(s) – Add… from the main menu bar.

3. Press Ctrl + E.

To setup an account, follow the steps listed below: 1. Open the Account Information dialog box (Figure 3). 2. Enter the Account Name. Select a unique name or one your Financial Institution has allotted

you.

3. Provide other related values for the text fields of the window. The minimum information

required to create an account is to provide the Account Name. This will enable the OK

button.

4. Select appropriate settings for options like Mark to Market, Taxable etc.

5. From the pull down menu, select the name of the Financial Institution where your account

resides. The name of the financial institution can only be among those that have been

provided in the dropdown list

6. Enter the account number assigned to you by the financial institution. This is the same

account number that typically appears on your statement.



7. If the selected financial institute has the Sync Download services available then the check

box is auto-activated, or else it is inactive. This enables the system to automatically download

the latest data from the particular site whenever the user logs in.

Note: For Sync Download i.e. if you want to download your latest data from your broker’s

website, you must enter the Account Username/ID and Account Password/PIN number, as

provided by your broker.

8. Click OK button and you can access your account through the dropdown list on the left side

of the Accounts screen.

Figure 3 – Add Account Information dialog box

NOTE

If you have already initiated transactions within your brokerage firm, you can easily download

your transaction history through the File Web Browser Data (Broker list)…menu.

Step 2: Defining Security Symbols Sometimes traders incorrectly associate two or more different transaction types with the same

symbol. To avoid this situation, it is essential to define securities against which the transactions

are to be made. TA Pro allows you to initially associate a symbol with appropriate security

through the Add/Modify Symbols dialog box, and then map a new transaction to it through the

Add Transaction dialog box.

Add/Modify Security Symbols The dialog box is used to add a new security, assign symbols to the security, add other

transaction information and modify/delete the information of an existing security.



Page Access The dialog box can be accessed by:

• Menu item Edit Symbol(s) - Add/Modify…

• From Add Transaction dialog box while defining transaction with a new security.

• From Corporate Event dialog box when a new symbol is required.

To define a Security Symbol, follow the steps listed below: 1. Open up the Add/Modify Symbols dialog box.

2. It presents three Dialog Mode options:

o Edit allows you to modify the security information.

o View allows you to review the security information.

o New allows you to assign new symbols to the security.

3. To define a new security click on New. 4. Enter a new symbol in the assigned Symbol field.

5. Next, check the symbol’s validity from the Internet by clicking on the Research link.

6. If the symbol is valid, fill in the required fields and click Add button. The symbol will appear in

the above section labeled as Symbols in TA, and its verification status will be No. 7. Verify the symbol by clicking the Verify button.

8. Once verified, the status changes to Yes and it is ready for the transaction purpose.



Figure 4 – Add/Modify Security Symbol dialog box

NOTE:

If the symbol’s verified status turns out to be No, it means that it could be an invalid symbol. In

such cases, it is suggested to review the symbol.

Step 3: Selecting Transaction Type Transactions tab - the second navigation tab of the application - provides all the controls to

manage the transactions for an account. It is used to define, modify or delete transactions.

Select Transaction Type

This dialog box (Figure 5) facilitates selecting the security types and related actions for creating

new transactions. It allows TA Pro to narrow down the action list.

Page Access

The dialog box can be launched by:

• Selecting menu item Edit Transaction – Add/Modify…

• Clicking Add button on the Transaction screen.



• Clicking Add New Transaction link on Accounts screen.

• Pressing Ctrl + T.

To Add a Transaction, follow the steps listed below:

1. From the Transactions screen, select the

Add button. The Select Transaction Type

dialog box appears that presents the list of

different security types.

2. Click on the expand (+) option and view the

possible actions.

3. Select the desired action and click on the

Add button. It opens Add Transaction dialog

box where you can enter the transaction

detail.

Figure 5 – Select Transaction Type dialog box

Step 4: Adding Transaction The Add Transaction dialog box is used to enter the basic and advance data required to initiate

transactions. Some of the fields appear with data based on the previous information, while rest is

entered manually. The dialog box is classified into two tabs: Basic and Advance. 1) Basic Info:

The basic data needed to initiate transactions is entered under this tab. Given below is the detail:

a. Action - Pick the action to be performed from the dropdown list e.g. Buy, Sale, Short Sale etc.

Note: The actions listed there depend on the type of the security selected.

b. Journal In - The check box is used for Journal In transactions.

c. Account - Account name for which the transaction is to be created is selected from the

dropdown list.

d. Symbol – Select the symbols for the transaction from the dropdown list.

e. Description – This field is read-only.



Note: Only those symbols appear against the Action that was defined earlier through the

Add/Modify Security dialog box. If the symbol was not defined earlier then it offers to create it

through the Add/Modify Security dialog box.

f. Transacted – Select the date and time at which the transaction is to be executed.

g. Settled/Journal Date – Select the date and time for Journal In transactions. Otherwise TA Pro

takes the date based on the date created.

Note: The reason is to provide a correct base

for Journal In transactions.

h. Quantity – Enter the amount of securities

bought or sold.

i. Unit Price – Enter the purchase price per share.

j. Commission – Enter the commission or

transaction fee. k. Add to:

The transactions are added into the particular list

on the basis of selection done here:

i. Transaction List – Simply a

transaction will be added on the

Transactions screen without any

associated position.

ii. Risk Monitor – A transaction will be

added and an associated position will

be created with the Open status. The

associated position is displayed on the Risk Monitor - Open Positions on the

Performance screen.

Figure 6 – Add Transactions - Basic Info tab

iii. Watch List – A transaction will be created with a Monitored status which is displayed on

the Risk Monitor - Watch List on the Performance screen.

2) Advance Info:1 It facilitates defining risk parameters to control the associated risk. The fields are enabled

when either Risk Monitor or Watch List option is selected within Basic Info tab. The TA

Pro calculates the risk based on the current data entered and/or the data provided through

View Properties Risk Profile tab.2 (Figure 7)

1 This option appears disabled if the transaction type is Sale. 2 To define the risk profile settings for Accounts see View Properties Risk Profile tab.



Figure 7 – Add Transaction - Advance Info tab

Add: The Add button is enabled once the

necessary is entered in the fields; such as

symbol, date, action, quantity, price etc. Clicking

it verifies and saves all the required information. Recalculate: Pressing this button auto-

calculates the Total Amount based on the

values entered.

Close: The button closes the dialog box.

Update Current Price (hyperlink): Opens the

Update Market Prices dialog box from where

you can update the security price either

manually or through the Internet.



Accounts

Accounts Screen Overview Accounts tab – the first tab of the application - is used to manage different accounts in TA Pro. It

facilitates Adding, Deleting, Modifying or Synchronizing an account. All these functions are

executed through the buttons incorporated at the bottom of the screen. It also displays summary

of an account as a quick reference (Figure 8).

Figure 8 - TA Accounts Screen Overview

It highlights the following important data about the selected account:

• Broker - Displays the name of the financial institution or the broker where the user holds the

current account.

• Last Sync Request - Displays the date at which the last synchronization request initiated.

For no such request, it displays Never message.

• Sync Date Range - Displays the date range for synchronization.

Note: The range is provided for the Manual option that is selected through the Sync Change Sync Date Range menu, otherwise it displays Automatic.



• Transactions in this Account - Displays the total transactions in the current account.

Common Tasks These links facilitate accessing and performing some important functions directly.



Transactions

Transactions Screen Overview Transactions tab – the second tab of the TA Pro - provides all the controls for managing

transactions for an account. It helps to Define, Initiate, Modify or Delete the transactions.

In addition, it also presents the complete transactions for any selected security and date range

(Figure 9).

Figure 9 – Transaction Screen Overview The Research and Charts buttons provide access to the latest market information of the security

via Internet. You can view the current market performance in tabular or graphical form.



Groups

Groups Screen Overview Groups tab – the fourth tab of TA Pro – facilitates manually grouping, ungrouping or regrouping

the transactions. Transactions are manually grouped by matching related Buy and Sell positions.

By looking at the Groups screen, you will also find a list of different grouped or ungrouped

transactions.

View Grouped Transactions

The Display View option is used to view grouped / ungrouped transactions for different Open and

Close positions (Figure 10). It also provides interface for grouping transactions manually (Figure

11).

Figure 10 - Display View drop down menu on Groups Screen

Group Transactions Manually

Change Groups – Manual Groups option under Display View brings forward a screen that

facilitates manually grouping transactions by matching buys and sales. The screen is divided into

three sections: Transactions, Group Details and Groups. (Figure 11)

To Manually Group Transactions, follow the steps listed below:



1. Select the desired Open and Close position from the Transaction section. To manually

group, the closing date and time must be after the opening one.

In the middle section of the screen i.e. Group Details, you will see a summary of the lot

match.

2. To complete this match, select the Group button. This manually matched group will now

appear in the lowest section i.e. Groups

If matched lots does not account for all the sold positions, you will see remaining unmatched

shares in the Opening Positions section of the screen.

3. To reverse a manual match, select the matched group from the Groups section, and select

Ungroup button. The positions associated with the match will be returned to the Opening and

Closing Positions under Transactions section.

Figure 11 – Grouping Transactions Manually 4. To view the groups detail select through the Groups section.

The Groups section allows you to view different groups via the View dropdown list. Each

group is represented by a specific symbol. The symbol appears under the G column:

Given below is the detail:

• M stands for Manual Groups – Represents manually matched groups.



• A stands for Auto Groups – Represents automatically matched groups by the system.

Automatic groups are created by TA Pro at runtime.

• T stands for TA Managed Groups – Represents different groups such as for

exercise/assign of Options, Journal Out events etc.

As grouping process is time consuming, you can lock out the groups that may not change. This

function is carried out through the Lock button. The associated symbol changes to a lock icon.

In addition, you can also lock all the groups up to the specified time period by the Tools Lock/Unlock Group…option.



Performance

Monitoring Performance

F

This screen allows monitoring account’s

gain/loss performance for any particular time

period. It presents performance based on

different parameters entered while defining a

transaction or through the Edit Properties Risk Profile option. The Display View

presents different options to view such

performance Figure 12). The details of

different options are given below:

• Unrealized Gain/Loss Summary Helps calculating unrealized profit and

loss of your account. Here you can create

“what if” scenarios by using current

market prices as a reference and simulate

real time scenarios to see there affect on

your trades.

• Options Return on Investment (ROI) It presents an estimate of net profit on your Op

• Unrealized Gain/Loss, Options View It presents the performance of your Options th

• Risk Monitor (Open Positions) It shows performance of securities with open

them. The transactions are entered by Edit selecting Risk Monitor option on the Add Tra

• Risk Monitor (Watch List) Manages and controls the performance of u

against them. The risk is defined through the


igure 12 – Performance Display View

Figure 13 – Performance Display View options

tions.

at are currently holding open positions.

positions and holding position entries against

Position Monitor – Add/Modify…menu, or by

nsaction Basic Info tab.

n-realized transactions by defining risk levels

View Properties Risk Profile tab or the

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Advance Info tab of Add Transactions dialog box. The transactions are added either

through Edit Watch List – Add/Modify…menu option or selecting Watch List option on

the Basic Info tab of Add Transactions dialog box.

• Realized Gain/Loss Summary It presents realized gain/loss summary of an account. You can see your worst trades, best

trades, total of gain, loss & flat trades etc. (Figure 14).

Figure 14 – Performance Summary Table View

• Realized Gain/Loss Details Presents the realized gain/loss Details for All Securities.

• Realized Gain/Loss Summary, Options View Presents the realized gain/loss summary of your Options.

• Realized Gain/Loss Details, Options View Presents the realized gain/loss Detail of your Options.

• Bar Chart (Realized Gain/Loss) Displays the realized gain/loss summary of the grouped transactions lying within the selected

date range.



• Bar Chart (Sales - Buys) Displays the realized gain/loss summary of all the sales and buys lying within the selected

date range.

• Pie Chart (Realized Gain/Loss) Presents the net profit or loss incurred on the grouped transactions for any selected time

period.

• Pie Chart (Sales - Buys) Presents the net profit or loss earned on all the sales and buys for any selected time period.

• Pie Chart ($ Invested Gain/Loss/Flat Returns) Displays a pie chart for all open positions with their net gain, loss and flat amount.

• Pie Chart (# Trades Gain/Loss/Flat Returns) Displays a pie chart for total number of transactions in gain, loss or flat.

Figure 15 – Pie Chart showing Profit and Loss



• Market Timing – Chart Displays the historical data and the latest market trend against the particular symbol through

a Line-Chart.



Tax Reports Tax Reports tab – the fourth tab of the application – allows you to select predefined templates for viewing

account information. This release of TA Pro incorporates the following advanced report templates:

• IRS Schedule D • Simplified Schedule D • Detailed Schedule D • IRS Form 4797 • IRS Form 6781 • Wash Sales Event Summary • Gain/Loss Group Details

Note: All these reports are selected and

viewed through the Display View

dropdown list.

Table 1 – Details of reports available through Displa

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Figure 16 – Display View drop down menu

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Research Research tab – the fifth tab of the application – includes links to the most commonly used sites. It

works like a built-in web-browser and displays links selected from the left pane of the screen. The l inks on

this screen are customized through the View Properties URLs tab.

Figure 17 – Research Screen View


TA 3.2 – Quick Start Guide

Working with Options The following sections explain the process of defining events for Options.

Exercise/Assign/Expire Options

TA Pro .simplifies the process of exercising, assigning or expiring Options by providing you

options where you must deliver or purchase (in case of a Call or Put) the underlying security.

This feature of TA Pro facilitates creating the corresponding transactions within the

Exercise/Assign/Expire Options dialog box and helps applying events to them. The manual

groups for such transactions are also created automatically under the Groups screen.

Page Access

• Selecting menu item Edit Exercise/Assign/Expire Options

• Modifying a transaction involved in Exercise/Assign/Expire event or a transaction generated

for underlying security through an Exercise/Assign event on Transactions screen.

• Selecting Exercise/Assign/Expire related actions on Select Security Type dialog box.

• Selecting an Open type Option/Index Option transaction on the Transactions screen and

right clicking on the menu item Exercise/Assign/Expire.

To initiate an event, follow the steps listed below: Define a security of type Call Option (Equity), Put Option (Equity), Index Option through the

Edit Symbol(s) - Add/Modify dialog box and make a transaction for it.

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igure 18 – xercise/Assign/ Expireptions dialog box

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To generate an Option transaction, either open Add Transaction dialog box and select the

security type and the transaction type.

Or, click Edit Exercise/Assign/Expire Option to open the related dialog box.

The dialog box will display the Call/Put transactions of security types defined as Options.

Clicking on the transaction available in the Option Transaction(s) section list will enable the

Add button and display the values for the selected transaction in the text fields at the bottom

of the dialog box.

Specify the event action, event date, the number of contracts participating in event, and click

Add to apply the event action.

This will take to the one of the following as per requirement of event.

o Auto generate expire event and transaction in case of Expire Equity Option event.

o Settlement Price dialog box and then to the Add Transaction dialog box, in case of

Expire Event of an Index Option, where other details about the transaction are

entered. Some of the fields are read-only depending on the type of the transaction

defined.

o Exercise/Assign/Expire Options – Part 2, in case of Exercise/Assign Options.

Once the process of an event is finished, an entry for the event action would be generated in

the Exercise/Assign/Expire Events section list.

Assign / Exercise Equity Options To Assign and Exercise Equity Options, where the Stock position acts as the underlying for

generated cover Call or Put Options, Exercise/Assign/Expire Options – Part 2 dialog box is

generated. It is used to cover an Open stock position with the related Call or Put Option. It

automatically detects relevant transactions and presents them under Eligible Stock Transaction

section.

Figure 19 – Designate and Associate/Cover dialog box



NOTE Stock Options with Sell and Buy events can be Assigned/Expired and Exercised/Expired respectively. Whereas Index Option can only be Expired. TA Pro automatically guides you

through the relevant steps. TA Pro also allows assigning Options even after the seven days of

their expiry date.

Expire Equity Options In case of Expire events for Equity Options, click Add button on the Exercise/Assign/Expire Options - Part 1. This will Expire the Option for selected contract. The entry would be visible

under the Spouse and Children of Parent section.

Expire Index Options In case of Index Options Expire event, Add button will display the Settlement Price dialog box (Figure 20)

Figure 20 - Index Settlement Price dialog box

• Entering a valid settlement price and clicking OK will open the Add Transaction dialog box.

• The price will be calculated as: (settlement price – strike price) or zero (0) if settlement price

is less than strike price.

• Pressing Add button will generate the transaction.

Expire Old Option Contracts

This feature automatically expires any open option contracts which should have been expired by

the current date. As some brokers do not provide an indication of these events, so TA reviews the

expiration date of the underlying options and makes the corrections automatically.

The logic behind the process is explained below:

o For automatically Expiring Open Contracts, in Case of Index Options no dialogs for

settlement price and Add Transaction are displayed, provided there are more than one

Option Transactions (Index or Non Index) to be expired. In this case, Settlement price is

assumed equal to strike price resulting the price as zero. Rest of the values for Fee and

Commission etc… are assumed as zero too.



o Before automatic expire begins, the Sequence Error Discovery process runs and it fixes

all the sequence errors found in all accounts.

o Automatic expire process first checks any of existing Exercise/Assign or Journal out

reminders and shows a prompt to deal with them first. If user selects to ignore them, the

process continues and shows a completion message after completion. Otherwise,

Transaction screen is opened in Reminders display view mode.

o Before prompting for reminders, Automatic Expire Process deletes any journal reminders

for option transactions that are transacted on or after the expiration date of security.

o Automatic Expire process deletes any expire reminders against which an expire event is

applied.

o Automatic Expiration process does not generate an expire event if final ungrouped

quantity of the option is less than one.

Reminder Discovery Process

While importing data, in case of Journal Out action, TA uses Journal Out – Reminder as an

action. This transaction is not grouped. It is a visual reminder to the user of an action that they

need to apply. TA uses as much information as available in the provided data.

Figure 21 – Apply Reminder dialog box

Reminders process is executed as explained below: o Reminder Discovery Process is run when user clicks the Show Details link on

Unconfirmed tab of Reconcile Gain/Loss dialog box.

o It deletes any Journal Reminders for Option transactions that are transacted on or after

the expiration date. If user attempts to modify Exercise/Assign/Expire/Journal Reminder

actions, Apply Reminder dialog box is displayed (see figure Figure 21 above).

o On modification - in case of Journal Reminders for Options - if the transaction date is

equal or greater than expiration date of Option symbol, this dialog box will offer option of



Auto Expiration. Same will be done in case of Expire Reminder modification. If user

selects this option, Auto Expiration process will be started as run from Tools menu.

o The two options appear on the dialog:

o If the option Add a Journal Out event for the same quantity is selected on the dialog

box (Figure 21), it opens respective Journal Out Event dialog box. Transactions from

selected reminder symbol will be displayed only. Whereas Quantity and Date will be

selected as that of reminder transaction and will not be changed on the selection of

transaction.

o If user selects Show Position History, position history of the current symbol is

displayed. Otherwise respective event dialog box will open for the rest of reminder types.

o Deletion of any transaction fails, if it is associated with any exercise/assign/cover event

and any other participating transaction for this event is locked.

o Quantity Total represents (Total Open Quantity – Total Closed Quantity) when the display

view type is All Transactions.



Corporate Events

This feature helps updating the corporate event information for Splits, Reverse Splits, Spin Offs

and Mergers. This is not a search and replace process - like in some other applications - where

user first selects the range and then an action. The concept in TA Pro is to maintain a database

of corporate events and apply them to the database when the event occurs. The affect is the

addition of transactions to the database with the corresponding event. For example, with a 2 to 1

split, the user would see the original position plus the corporate event in the Transaction screen.

However, when gain/loss is calculated, TA Pro will take all adjustments into consideration.

Adding a Corporate Event for a Security:

• Select the Edit Symbol(s) - Corporate Event… menu item to open the dialog box for

Corporate Event Adjustment.

• Select a security against which the event is to be defined from the Event Summary list.

Note: The Event Detail section presents the detail of corporate event of the symbol selected

in the above section (if it has any defined against it).

• Make entries to the fields in the Event Information area. The Add button would be enabled.

• Click the Add button to save the new event and then click Close to close the dialog box.

Figure 22 – Corporate Event dialog box



Journal Out Events

This feature is used to indicate Journal Out events, i.e. events that take place when shares are

transferred from an account. Journal Out events affect the available shares. TA Pro keeps track

of such transaction details. When reports are run, TA Pro evaluates all transactions that affect the

results of the report and removes shares from an account. Whenever a Journal Out event occurs,

specific transaction must be indicated to TA Pro so that it can adjust the number of shares

available.


• Menu item Edit Transaction(s) - Journal Out…

• Modifying a transaction involved in a Journal Out event from Transaction screen

To apply Journal Out event: 1. Open the Journal Out Event dialog box. A list of transactions is presented in the

Ungrouped Opening Transaction section.

2. Select a transaction and define an event against that transaction. A new transaction

would be created for that event and saved in the database. Note: The newly created

transaction and the transaction selected out will be manually grouped by TA.

Figure 23 – Journal Out Events dialog box



NOTE

If the dialog is accessed from transaction screen to modify a transaction involved in a Journal

Out Event, the event will be selected in Existing Events list and fields will be populated with

event information. Also, the opening transaction involved in that event will be selected in

Ungrouped Opening Transactions List.

Mark -to -Market Event Adjustments

The Mark-To-Market election requires you to treat the securities in your trading account as if you

Sale them for fair market value on the last day of the taxable year, with a resulting gain or loss

reported as ordinary income or deduction. Your basis for the securities is adjusted for any gain or

loss, with the result that for any securities held at the end of the preceding year, basis equals

year-end value.

NOTE The selection of Mark-to-Market for an account is specified while it is being defined. It can also be

modified latter by modifying an account’s information.

To apply Mark to Market adjustment, follow the steps listed below: 1. Select the Edit Mark-to-Market menu option. This will display the Mark-to-Market

Adjustment dialog box.

2. Select an account from the Account dropdown list.

3. Specify a date at which the event is to be applied from the Last date of Tax Year dropdown list.

4. Press the Refresh button. That presents the lists of Open shares of that symbol at the

selected date.

5. Choose a source for the update:

a. If you choose Internet Import option as a source then select the Import button

to choose the latest update.

b. If you choose User option, then provide the data manually.

6. The price information would be updated in the list.



7. Choose Apply to complete the process.

Figure 24 – Mark to Market Adjustments dialog box



Reconciliation

TA addresses multiple reconciliation issues and provides fundamental cleanup utilities to gain

authentic gain/loss Schedule D reports. It also allows matching and documenting your 1099

statement. To assist your account’s review process, it provides powerful and extensive wizards.

Now you can click on our wizard, follow a guided process and discover hard to find errors.

Reconcile an Account It is a process to reconcile an account with the information provided by Sync. It helps to reconcile

an account against a position reference documents.

Figure 25 – Reconcile Baseline Position dialog box For an account’s reconciliation, see the steps listed below:

• Select the Tools Reconcile an Account … menu, or alternatively select the tool bar

option Reconcile Gain/Loss Continue (Gain/Loss: Seven Review Steps) Reconciled tab Reconcile (a link against option “c”)

• Select the account to be reconciled.

• Choose the source for reconciliation:



o 0 & Long – Choose this option if you want to initialize current positions with zero.

o TA Calculated – Choose this option if you want to initialize through TA

calculated positions.

o Broker – Choose this option if you want to initialize through the broker’s data i.e.

synchronization.

Note: This option is enabled for Sync enabled accounts only.

• Click within the Current or Long/Short columns to edit.

• To apply the changes click on the Recalculate button.

• Follow the instructions in the Action Required column.

• To save the data, click on the Save button.

NOTE

For accuracy the reconciliation must be done prior to Short Sale Discovery process and

generating Reports.

Sequence Error Discovery It is a process to find and fix sequence errors in an account i.e. transactions that are out of time

and date sequence, and that would otherwise cause Short Sale Discovery process to fail.

Sometimes a user may also enter trades in a wrong way thus causing such errors.

Figure 26 – Sequence Error Discovery dialog box



To find and fix Sequence Errors, follow the steps listed below

1. Select Tools Sequence Errors Discovery… option.

The Find and Fix Sequence Errors dialog box appears (Figure 26)

2. Click on the Find button.

It launches a Find Sequence Error dialog box allowing you to select an Account you

want to work on.

3. Select the Account from the list and click on the Continue button. It poipulates transactions with sequence errors in the above section. The below section

presents the proposed solution of the selected transactions in the above list.

4. Select the transactions you want to fix and select the Update button.

All the transactions with the sequence error would be fixed.

5. Click Close to exit the dialog box

NOTE Selecting Change check box and then Update button modifies the checked transaction and

insert a new transaction to retain the position and amount same as before.

Long/Short Transaction Discovery It is a process of finding Sales that should be Short Sales and Buys that should be Buys To Cover and vice versa, for the Stock and Option type transactions.

NOTE

Before initiating Long/Short Transactions Discovery it is suggested to Reconcile an account and

fix the Sequence Errors.



Figure 27 – Short Sale Discovery dialog box

To find and change transaction’s status:

• Open the Long/Short Transaction Discovery… dialog box from the Tools menu (Error!

Reference source not found.).

• Click on the Find button to find the list of all the required transactions.

• Select the account for which you want to initiate the action and click Continue.

Note: A warning is displayed if there is reconciliation or sequence error.

• To change the status of the transaction, select the corresponding Change checkbox.

• If you want to undo the selection, click the respective Ignore check box.

• Click the Update button to save the changes.

• To close the dialog box, click Close.

Original Lot Discovery TA proposes all fills – i.e. transaction having s same symbol, action, unit price, transaction date,

and traded within a specific time span but were split while initiating transactions - to form a single

Original Lot and avoid the effect of the Wash Sale event on them. This could reduce the number

or transaction and Schedule D pages by 1/2.



To find Original Lots, follow the steps listed below: 1. Open the Original Lot(s) From Fills Discovery dialog box from the Tools menu.

2. Click on the Find button and select the Account from the dialog box.

3. Specify your Time Span preference i.e. the time difference within which the transactions

were initiated. The default time span is set to ten minutes.

It will populate the dialog box with all those transactions that could be combined to form a

single Original Lot.

4. Select the desired transactions by checking the corresponding Fills checkboxes.

Note: You can view and scroll to next and previous transaction by using the arrow keys.

5. To view the combined lots, select the View Results button.

It displays the combined result at the lower section of the dialog box. 6. To select and combine all the sets, select the Select All Lots and Update All buttons

respectively.

7. To combine only the selected transactions, select the Update Current button.

8. In the end, click Close to close the dialog box.

Reconcile Gain/Loss TA incorporates a wizard to guide you through the steps necessary to generate an accurate

gain/loss report. This robust and powerful feature presents the current status of account and

helps taking necessary steps required for reconciliation, prior to the generation of Schedule D.

Figure 28 – General Information dialog box

Figure 29 – Gain/Loss Seven Review Steps



To start the wizard, follow the steps listed below:

1. Select the Reconcile Gain/Loss option from the Toolbar, or alternatively select the

Tools Reconcile Gain/Loss option.

It brings forward the General Information of an account i.e. transaction types and their

detail.

2. To go to the next step, click Continue.

It brings forward the Gain/Loss: Seven Review Steps. It presents different tabs

categorized for different types of transactions. It works more like a calculator and helps to

input different facts & figures and calculate & compare you gain/loss for accurate

reconciliation. You can go to each tab one by one and follow the instructions given over

there to generate an accurate and error free gain/loss report.

Note: Each tab has a colored indicator given against it. The green indicator means that a

task is complete, and the red/yellow indicator means that a task needs reconciliation prior to

the generation of schedule D.

Reconcile Transactions Reconcile Transactions shows status of transactions reconciled as well as helps to reconcile

transactions and match the content with the 1099 statement. An IRS 1099 is provided to an

account-holder to document the sales that are reported to the government. It is essential that the

sales total in TA match the user’s 1099 statement.



Figure 30 – Reconcile Transactions dialog box

To Reconcile Transactions, follow the steps listed below:

Select the Tools > Reconcile an Account option to open the Reconcile Gain/Loss

Transactions dialog box

Note: The same dialog box is also accessed through the Reconcile Gain/Loss > 1099 Sales > Reconcile button.

Select the Account for which you want to reconcile 1099 Total.

Next, filter out the transactions with respect to the Date Range, Security Type and

Action by help of respective controls given.

Notes: Action setting drop down list will filter the view according to the selection. For

example, when Sales - All is selected the dialog box shows Sales transactions.

Click here to edit "1099 Total" hyperlink is used to open 1099 Sale/Buy Totals dialog

boxes when Gross Proceeds, Total Purchases or All Types is selected.

Notes:

- The hyperlink is hidden when All Types or Gross Proceeds is selected in Security Types drop down list and when All Transactions is selected in the Action dropdown

list.



- When security type is Gross Proceeds, only Sales options appear, while for Total Purchases only Buys options appear in the Action dropdown list.

To input the 1099 Buy/Sale values manually, click on the Click here to edit "1099 Total" hyperlink (). Depending upon the type of the Action selected, it brings forward the

following dialog boxes that are used to update the 1099 Sales/Buys Total (as shown in

Figure 31 and Figure 32 below):

Figure 31 – User Provided 1099 Sales Total

Figure 32 – User Provided 1099 Buy Total

Updating 1099 Sales/Buys Totals

User Provided 1099 Sale Totals dialog box

This dialog box (Figure 31) is used to update reconciliation 1099 Sale Totals and Gross

Proceeds status.

User Provided 1099 Buy Totals dialog box

This dialog box is (Figure 32) used to update reconciliation 1099 Buy Totals and Total

Purchases status.

These dialog boxes present two sections. Their functionality is explained below:



1. The first section Select Gross Proceeds Security Types lists securities that are

included in Gross Proceeds.

Note: Selecting the security in the upper section will remove it from the lower section.

The amount of selected security will be treated as zero and will not be counted

towards 1099 Total. Use this if the amount contains more than one security type or

else use the lower section

2. The second section Enter the Amounts facilitates updating the values in the list for

respective security types. You can also enter the Total Gross Proceed/Total

Purchases amount against the respective fields.

After you have updated your 1099 Sales/Buys, click Update to save your changes and

go to the previous Reconcile Transactions dialog box.

Within the dialog box you can match and compare your TA Reconciled and 1099Total.

Within the TA Transactions section, select the transactions you want to add or remove

from your current account.

The command buttons given at the bottom helps to perform the following tasks:

Add: On pressing Add button, Add Transaction dialog box pops up that helps adding a

new transaction.

Modify: Modify button is enabled once a transaction is selected from the list. When the

Modify Transaction dialog box opens the defaults values appear according to the

selected transaction. Move: Remove excess transactions by selecting them and clicking the Move button.

Note: Such transactions can be saved in a separate file and removed from this account.

Update: This button updates all the calculations. It will not save the reconcile status.

Save: To save the changes, click the Save button.

Note: On pressing Save button, all transactions reconciled flag is updated. It also

removes Unconfirmed from note field of all transactions that have been check marked.

The Click # column helps to count the transactions we have selected. Following is the

working of Click # list column and Reset hyperlink.

1. Click counter starts at 0 by default.

2. Reset Click # hyperlink above the Click # field clears all click numbers and reset

them to 0, but there is no change to check boxes.

3. Each time a check box is selected, the Click count is incremented and that number is

displayed in the Click # field. It only increments for the selection click and not for the



de selection click. If the same check box is selected, deselected then selected, it will

show the most recent click count.

Invalid Baseline Discovery Process This process is used to discover errors in baseline transactions. A baseline error occurs when

the first transaction is a closing event but the position is “0.00”. As there is no position to close

that transaction, so it means that data is missing.

A Sale to Close, a Buy to Cover, and Exercise, Assign, Expire or Journal Out are not allowed as

the first transaction for any symbol. If such position occurs it means that data is missing. If TA

does not discover these transactions then the user must discover them using a process like

Reconciliation or another method. Resolving them through this process will improve the

Reconciliation process.

Figure 33 – Invalid Baseline Discovery For find and fix Invalid Baselines, follow the steps listed below:

• Select any of the following option to initiate the process:

o Tools Reconcile Baseline … option.

o Alternatively the dialog box is also accessed through Reconcile Gain/Loss Gain/Loss: Seven Review Steps Reconciled tab Reconcile (a link

against option: (a) Baseline)

Note: The process automatically starts with the initialization of Reconcile Gain/ Loss dialog box. After completion of the invalid transactions discovery process, the

Invalid Baseline Transaction dialog box (Figure 33) pops up for each invalid

transaction found within the current account.

It provides following different options to fix such issues:

1. Add Qty:…. Select this to add a new opening position against the current invalid

transaction according to the actions/values suggested by the TA.



2. Modify the Transaction: Select this to modify current transaction values by the Modify

Transactions dialog box.

3. Delete the Transaction: Select this to delete the current invalid transaction.

4. Show Position History: Select this to view position history of a symbol used in current

invalid transaction on the Transactions screen.

5. Apply the decision to all subsequent cases: This option is applicable and enabled

only with option 1. If multiple cases are discovered, select it to apply the current decision

to all subsequent transactions.



Transfer Account/Transactions

This dialog box is used to transfer transactions form one account to another.

Page Access The dialog box can be accessed by the menu item Edit Transaction(s) - Move to Account.

Figure 34 – Transfer Account/Transactions dialog box NOTE

If any of the Transaction being transferred is part of some Manual/TA Generated/Locked group

or Corporate Event the system will present an error and break the process. Opening or Journal

In transactions will have negative amount.



Customizing Properties

This dialog box is used to customize various properties for the TA Pro specific accounts. It

incorporates different tabs through which you can set various preferences for your convenience.

The following are the brief description of the properties:

Figure 35 – TradeAccountant Properties dialog box.

1. URLs This dialog box is used to enter the URLs that are launched on Research screen when the

user selects the different options over within the TA Pro, such as Research and Charts button

on the Transactions screen etc.

2. Wash Sales This screen is used to select the option to enable the Wash Sale Event or disable it.

3. Corporate Event This screen is used to set whether to apply Corporate Events Adjustments or not.



4. Risk Profile This property helps to define some risk parameters to control gain/loss situation. You can

monitor your unrealized transactions based on these parameters and take appropriate

actions against them.

5. Duplicates This setting is used to manage the display of duplicate transactions. Duplicate transactions

have the same Date, Action, Quantity, Symbol, Price and Hour.

NOTE

For details refer to Finding Duplicate Transactions section.

6. Date Preferences This screen is used to set the Wash Sale Dates to be displayed on the Reports screen. The

setting determines if the Gain/Loss reports display their original dates or dates adjusted to

reflect actions like Wash Sales. You can turn this feature On or Off.

7. Decimal Precision This helps to set the decimal points to appear on screens or reports. As decimal precision

count a lot while viewing or reporting transactions - specifically for tax purposes - so they can

be adjusted easily. It provides adjustment options and also standard rounding and custom

rounding features.

8. Column Controls This property is used to change the order of the first two column and also ascending/

descending order. The options are applicable for Transactions, Groups and Performance

screens.



Synchronization

This process of TA Pro allows connecting to the broker’s server and downloading the latest

transactions via Internet. After download, the information is stored in the TA Pro database. The

synchronization options are available either through the Sync Sync Download menu or Sync

button on the Accounts screen (Figure 36).

Note: This process is applicable if you broker support this facility and you have initialized this

option through Add Account Information dialog box.

Synchronize Transactions

Initiating this process through Sync Sync

Download main menu will display the Sync Transactions dialog box (Figure 37). The dialog

box has two sections:

• Progress section displays the accounts that

require Synchronization The process starts

simultaneously for all the accounts. It also

shows the download progress.

• Messages section displays status about

successful or unsuccessful completion of the

process.

Figure

Sync. Password Change Request The Sync Password Change Request dialog box lists the

The dialog box is displayed if a request is received from the

Once the new password is provided the process starts agai

Figure 38).


Figure 36 – Synchronization MainMenu

37 – Sync Transactions dialog box

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Figure 38 - The Sync Password Change Request dialog box allows modification of passwords for the brokerage accounts

Sync. Date Range Settings The synchronization process also depends upon the date range settings. These settings

determine the date range for the data to be downloaded. It presents two options to customize the

download process: Automatic or Manual.

Figure 39 - The Change Sync Date Range dialog box for setting the synchronization date ranges. The synchronization process depends upon these settings to download the transactions from the Broker’s site.



Update Market Price

This feature of TA Pro gets the latest security prices via Internet and applies them to the current

transactions. This information is helpful while monitoring accounts performance through the

performance screen. The prices can either be modified manually or imported through the Internet.

To Update the Security Prices follow the steps listed below: To enter the price manually:

o Select the Sync Update Market Price User radio button and enter the prices

against the Symbol.

• To import the price from the Internet:

o Select the Sync Update Market Price Internet radio button and choose

Update button.

Choosing the Apply button will automatically refresh the data and apply new prices to the related

transactions.

Figure 40 – Update Market Price dialog box



Duplicate Transactions Discovery

You can reach for duplicate entries of a transaction(s) that you have made. Duplicate transactions

are those transactions that have same Date, Action, Quantity, Symbol, Price and Hour. TA Pro

ignores the seconds and minutes because they are changed by the sequencing process to order

transaction for the same symbol imported with the same date and no time. The duplicate

transaction can remain undecided, designated as ignored or deleted by using this feature.


• Tools Duplicate Transactions - Discovery Duplicates tab.

• View Properties Duplicates tab.

To show or hide the Duplicate Transactions, follow the steps listed below:

• Select the respective Show or Hide Duplicates option under the Duplicates tab:

o Show Duplicates – Presents duplicate transactions in TA Pro

o Hide Duplicates – Hides duplicate transactions and excludes them from the TA

Pro’s screens and reports.

• To Ignore or Delete the duplicate transactions open the Find Duplicate Transactions dialog

box by clicking the Update link on the Duplicates tab.

• Select the account or criteria for filtration

• Next choose the scope of the search from the following options given:

o Find all duplicate for the selected account.

o Find all duplicates for the selected account except those previously ignored.

• Click either on the Continue or Cancel buttons to proceed forward or delete the changes

respectively.

Clicking the Continue button will display the Find/Edit Duplicate Transactions dialog box

(Figure 41) and all the duplicate entries within the system. It presents you different choices

i.e. Delete, Ignore etc.3 Note: TA Pro will hide the duplicates except for those you choose to Ignore.

• Use Clear checkbox to cancel an Ignored selection or use Delete to remove the duplicate

transaction from the TA Pro database.

• After selection, click Update button to the save the changes or Find button to modify the

search.

3 Ignore means to leave the transaction in TA. To avoid nuisance, TA Pro excludes it from the basic duplicate search. Ignored TA transaction is included in TA reports and screens.



Figure 41 – Screenshot of the Find/Edit Duplicate Transactions NOTE A transaction that has been manually grouped cannot be modified /deleted. It must be ungrouped first and then regrouped.



Cancelled Transaction - Removal

This feature checks for cancelled transactions and removes them from the account after

download.

Figure 42 – Cancelled Transactions Removal menu

NOTE

Trade Cancel Fees, Trade Cancel and Actual Transaction (Buy, Sale, Short Sale or Buy to

Cover) define a set of three items used by Penson to cancel a transaction. If the complete set is

found it is excluded from the TA Pro.



Lock/UnLock Groups

This feature of TA Pro locks or unlocks your gain/loss results. You can Lock the groups for a

specific time period to restrict changes that could affect the gain/loss totals.

To Lock/Unlock Groups, follow the steps given below:

• Open the Tools Lock/Unlock Groups menu.

• To lock groups up to a specific date, select Lock Results (on and before) option and then

the date from the pop-up calendar.

• To Unlock, select the Lock Results (on and before) option.

• Click OK to apply the changes.

Figure 43 – Lock/Unlock Groups



Backup and Restore

The backup and restore feature provided in TA Pro is used to save the data that your system

application holds and reopen it whenever required. This can prove to be helpful when a system

crashes or starts malfunctioning due to some reason.

Performing Backups

Performing backups is an easy task and requires only few seconds. You can save your data with

or without passwords through the File Save As (Backup) options. The backup file is saved in

*.bk format.

Restoring Data from a Backup

Data can also be restored in TA Pro from a previously performed backup. This proves to be

helpful in multiple cases e.g. you have lost your data due to system crash or any other reason, or

if the application has been reinstalled on the same system or a different one. The File Open (Restore Backup)…menus helps to restore the backup through different sources.

Figure 44 -

Select the Restore option from the File menu to restore data from a previously performed backup.

• Import Backup Data

You can also import the external backup file from TA 2.X and 3.X applications. The File Open (Restore Backup) menus allow importing the external backup file into the application.



• Send Backup To

You can also send backup via E-mail to any other recipient or the TA Pro support center. This

option specifically helps when you want to send the data to tax professionals. The File Send Backup To… menus present options to send data by E-mails.



Import Options

TA Pro also provides data import facility in various formats. It allows importing transactions and

quotes data from an external file. This may be an Excel file, Text file, Microsoft Money, Quicken or

TradeStation etc. Following are some of the import options:

• Import from QIF, CSV or TXT File

TA supports data imports in multiple formats, such as QIF, CSV and TXT. To import files in a

specific format, select the File Import… File (CSV, QIF, TXT etc.) option.

Note: Microsoft Money, TradeStation and some other third party softwares save their files in QIF

format.

• Import from Broker Site

The option File Import… Web Browser Data (broker list)… takes to the TA build web page

that contains links to different broker’s websites. It allows you to select your broker and fetch your

transaction data online.

• Import Price Updates

To update prices for securities defined in the system, select File Import… TA Price Update… option. TA will automatically download new prices and apply them on the securities.

Export Options

TA Pro also facilitates to export the data from the application to an external file. The file exported by

TA Pro is in Microsoft Excel (*.csv) format. However, for exporting data to tax calculation softwares,

it also provides other extensions, such as Turbo Tax, Tax Cut (*.txf) and Tax Wise (*.txw) etc. To

export the data, select the desired option from File Export… main menu. You will be requested

to specify the path where the file should be placed. Additional details, such as User Account, Time

Period, Decimal Precision, etc. are also provided to export the required data.



Figure 45 - Screenshot of the Export As dialog box.

Following are the TA export options:

• Export Transaction History

This option exports the transaction data from TA Pro to an external file. The file saved is in *.csv

format.

• Export to Tax Software

This option exports the data from the TA application to an external file to be used by tax calculation

software applications. Supported export formats by TA Pro are: TurboTax (*.txf), TaxCut (*.txf), Tax

Wise (*.tw), UltraTax (*.csv) and Proseries (*.txf).

• Groups (Schedule D Content)

This option exports the Schedule D content from TA Pro to an external file. This file is in *.csv

format.



Support Providing a solid, functional and easy to understand product is important to Sync Essentials Inc. If

you require assistance, likes to submit product enhancement suggestions or find any functional

difficulty with the TradeAccountant Pro, please refer to us at [email protected].

Support, assistance and answers to frequently asked questions can also be obtained by visiting the

support web site at: http://www.tradeAccountant.com/html/support.htm.


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