Creating a Trade Bundle

What is a Trade Bundle?

Let’s briefly discuss what a Trade Bundle is and how Trade Bundles are organized.

The simplest description for a Trade Bundle is that it is a container of trades. The performance of the trades in the container or Trade Bundle can then be evaluated individually or together by the Trade Evaluator.

The trades in a Trade Bundle will consist of buys and/or sells of a ticker or group of tickers that you would like to evaluate. You can manually input trades, import them from .CVS or .XLSX, or import them from an existing Stock Rover portfolio.

You can create multiple Trade Bundles, each with their own set of trades. Trade Bundles operate independently of each other so you can even have the same trade across multiple Trade Bundles or make a copy of a Trade Bundle and modify it.

Trade Bundles are organized in a folder hierarchy. You can either leave your Trade Bundles under the ‘Default’ folder or create your own folders via a right-click and then dragging and dropping the Trade Bundles to an appropriate folder.

Accessing the Create New Trade Bundle Window

We begin with the Trade Evaluator by creating a Trade Bundle. This in turn means, specifying the trades we would like to put into the Trade Bundle and and giving the Trade Bundle a name.

You can create a Trade Bundle in one of three ways in Stock Rover; manual entry, importing trades from an external file or importing trades from a portfolio contained in Stock Rover. You select which way via the Create Trade New Bundle window, which is shown below.

The create New Trade Bundle window window can be invoked in several different ways.

You can selecting the Trade Evaluator from the Start Menu. When no Trade Bundles are selected, the right pane prompts with a click “here“.

You can selecting the Trade Evaluator from the Start Menu. If existing Trade Bundles are selected, you can click on the ‘Actions’ pulldown to create a new Trade Bundle.

You can selecting the Trade Evaluator from the Start Menu. Then if you right-click on a folder in the Trade Bundles panel, you can create a new Trade Bundle.

Entering Trades Manually

1. Enter a name for the Trade Bundle
2. Optionally enter a description
3. Optionally select a source portfolio to indicate where the trades are from
4. Optionally enter a benchmark index
5. Click ‘Add Trade’ to manually add individual trades

Below we can see the Enter Trade window, where can enter the Ticker symbol, the Date, the Type (Buy or Sell), and the Quantity. The Price will default to the close price of the date selected or current price if today’s date is selected. The price can also be edited. We can also enter any trading fees associated with the trade.

Once we have entered the trade, we can click on ‘Add’ to add another trade or ‘Add and Finish’ if we have entered all our trades for the date selected.

Note: The Total Amount is calculated when we enter Price and Quantity. If we enter Price and Total Amount, Stock Rover will calculate the Quantity.

The Trade Bundle along with the trades will then show in the Trade Evaluator.

Importing Trades from a Stock Rover Portfolio

1. Enter a name for the Trade Bundle
2. Optionally enter a description
3. Select a source portfolio for the trades from within Stock Rover
4. Optionally enter a benchmark index
5. Optionally select a date range of trades
6. Optionally select trades of specific tickers

Once completed, we can click on ‘Create Trade Bundle’.

The Trade Bundle along with the trades will then show in the Trade Evaluator.

Importing Trades from a File

This options allows you to create a Trade Bundle with either a .CSV or .XLSX file containing trades or a Trade Bundle file exported in Stock Rover format.

1. Enter the .CSV, .XLSX, or Stock Rover format file containing the trades
2. Enter a name for the Trade Bundle
3. Optionally enter a description
4. Optionally enter a benchmark index.
5. Optionally select a date range of trades
6. Optionally select trades of specific tickers

Once completed, we can click on ‘Create Trade Bundle’.

The Trade Bundle along with the trades will then show in the Trade Evaluator.

If you import from a .CSV or .XLSX file, the file must contain a row for each trade and a title row containing the headings:

Ticker, Date, Action, Quantity, Price, Fees

Each trade row contains:

1. A valid ticker
2. The trade date in the format YYYY-MM-DD or MM/DD/YY
3. The trade action – “Buy” or “Sell”
4. The trade quantity
5. The buy or sell price
6. Optionally the commission or fees for the trade