We just released the 2016 8949 IRS tax forms. IRS Form 8949 is a form that reports your short and long term gains for any sold investments in the tax year. You can give Form 8949 to your tax preparer which assists in preparing Schedule D on your tax return. To generate Form 8949 click the Tools menu and choose the “Generate Form 8949” menuitem.
EquityStat’s portfolio manager has been nominated for a Benzinga Tech Award in the Analysis Platforms and Tools Apps category. You can see the list of nominees here:
http://benzingafintechawards.com/votes/analysis-platforms-tools-apps/
We have recently added a new feature. You can now add cash transactions to your portfolio. To add a cash transaction, click the New menu and then choose the “New Cash Transaction” menuitem from the drop down menu. In the popup dialog, add the date of the cash transaction and the amount of the transaction.
Once you have added a cash transaction, any non-reinvested dividends added to your other investments will be added to your cash.
We have recently added a new feature. You can now get an analysis of your account and portfolios. To perform a portfolio analysis click the Tools menu and choose Analyze Portfolio from the drop down menu.
Our portfolio analysis feature provides you an performance overview of your account/portfolio. You can easily see how your account/portfolio is performing over time, the holdings in your account/portfolio and performance metrics for each investment in your account/portfolio.
If you have multiple portfolios, the analysis page will first display how your entire account is performing. You can see performance metrics for each individual portfolio and a graph showing the growth of your account over time. In addition you can see your account’s investment holdings and a ranking of each investment return. The analysis will also provide performance metrics on each investment. You can see which investment is your best/lowest for the day, quarter and the year. A list of your best investments and a list of your lowest investments is also provided.
If you want to see an analysis of each individual portfolio click on the portfolio name in the portfolio summary table. You will then be shown an analysis for that portfolio. You will get the same graphs and performance metrics that were provided on the account level, but for the individual portfolio.
If you only have one portfolio, by default you will be shown the analysis for your only portfolio.
We have recently added a performance graph in the portfolio manager. For each investment in your portfolio you can see how that investment has performed over time. To see the investment graph, just click on an individual investment and the graph will display at the bottom right next to your list of transactions for the investment.
We just released the 2015 8949 IRS tax forms. If you have sold any stocks or mutual funds in 2015, then you can generate IRS Form 8949 to calculate your gain or loss on a stock sale. EquityStat will automatically calculate your short-term gains and losses and long-term gains and losses and generate a PDF 8949 form. You can then save or print out this form and give it to your accountant or tax preparer. To generate Form 8949 click the Tools menu and then select the Generate Form 8949 menuitem.
Here is a schedule of investor, stock, money and personal finance conferences for 2016.
Advanced Personal Financial Planning Conference – Las Vegas
http://www.cpa2biz.com/AST/Main/CPA2BIZ_Primary/PersonalFinancialPlanning/PRDOVR~PC-PFP/PC-PFP.jsp
Finovate Europe – London
http://europe2016.finovate.com/
Technology Tools For Today (T3) – Ft. Lauderdale
http://www.technologytoolsfortoday.com/conferences
The Traders Expo New York
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
MIT Sloan Investment Conference
http://www.sloaninvestmentconference.com/
The MoneyShow Orlando
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference – Orlando
https://www.ici.org/events/upcoming/conf_16_mfimc
CFA Institute Conference: Wealth Management
https://www.cfainstitute.org/learning/events/Pages/03162016_118419.aspx
FinDevR New York
http://newyork2016.findevr.com/
Value Investor Conference – Omaha
http://www.valueinvestorconference.com/
FPA Retreat – Phoenix
http://fparetreat.org/
The MoneyShow Las Vegas
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
Finovate Spring – San Jose
http://spring2016.finovate.com/
Better Investing National Convention – Washington DC
http://www.betterinvesting.org/public/singletabs/event+listings/nonmembereventdetail.htm?eventurl=%2fmembers%2ftools%2fevents%2fnational%2f2016binc.htm
Strategic Investor Conference – Dallas
http://www.mauldineconomics.com/sic-2016/
MorningStar Investment Conference – Chicago
http://corporate1.morningstar.com/Morningstar-Investment-Conference/
The MoneyShow San Francisco
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
Finovate Fall – New York
http://fall2016.finovate.com/
Delivering Alpha – New York
http://www.deliveringalpha.com/delivering-alpha-ii/
The MoneyShow Toronto
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
FinCon – San Diego
http://finconexpo.com/
The All-Stars of Options Trading
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
The MoneyShow Dallas
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
The Traders Expo Las Vegas
http://www.moneyshow.com/conferences.asp
According to the Wall Street Journal the best stock of 2015 was Netflix. It was up 134%. The worst stock of 2015 was Chesapeake Energy. It was down 77%.
You can see the list of best stocks here:
http://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/12/31/5-best-performers-in-the-sp-500-in-2015/
You can see the list of worst stocks here:
How did your investments do in 2015? What was your best stock? What was your worst? If you are not tracking your investment’s performance, consider using EquityStat. With EquityStat you can track the overall performance of your portfolio as well as the performance of each individual investment. EquityStat tracks the annualized return, year to date return, daily gain, overall gain and many other metrics of your investments. With these metrics you can easily determine what are your best investments and what are your worst investments.
Here is a quick getting started guide for using EquityStat’s portfolio manager.
After you join EquityStat, you will be logged into your account. Since you have no investments in your portfolio, you will see the page above. From this page you can click the New Investment button to add a new investment to your portfolio.
After clicking the New Investment button, you will be presented a dialog where you can enter a buy transaction for your investment. Using the dialog, enter the symbol of your investment, the date the purchase took place, the amount of shares purchased and the price for each share. When finished click the Save button. Once you have entered your first purchase, you can then enter other transactions such as other buys, sells and dividends.
The image above shows a portfolio with several investments already entered. The top table will show all of your investments along with data about the investments. Below the investment table are the transactions for the selected investment. You can sort your investments and transactions by clicking on a column heading. In addition you can expand a column by putting your mouse between columns and then drag to lengthen the width of the column. Above the investment table is a summary of the portfolio which will show you the total portfolio value, the total dollar return, the gain/loss for the day and the year-to-date return.
If you want to enter a new investment that is not in your portfolio, click the New menu and then choose the New Investment menuitem. If you want to add transactions to an existing investment, go to the transaction table below the investment table and click the Add button. A new row will then be added to the transaction table where you can add a new buy, sell, dividend transaction as well as many other transaction types. You can also edit an individual transaction by selecting the transaction and clicking the Edit button. If you want to remove a transaction, click the Delete button.
If you have investments in our portfolio that have been sold and you don’t want them to show, click the three line graphic at the left and choose Hide Sold Investments menuitem. This will hide any sold investments. To view your sold investments click the graphic again and choose View Sold Investments.
EquityStat is a powerful yet easy to use investment portfolio application. It was developed by investors for investors. The old adage “necessity is the mother of invention” was the driving force behind the founding of EquityStat. We found that the existing tools necessary to track, manage and financially evaluate investments were inadequate.
EquityStat wanted a way to track and manage all of our investments in one application from the cloud. As many investors know, your investments are scattered about many brokerages, mutual funds and retirement plans. Our goal was to create an application where investors could manage all of their investments in a single location. In addition we wanted to be able to access investments from any computer or device. Whether at home, work or at the accountant’s office, we wanted to be able to access our investment portfolio.