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Tradesy 1.0 release announcement
by Ben Kennedy 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

Hello everybody, At long last, Tradesy 1.0 (build 0.240229) is publicly released. Here are the notable changes since the prior build seven months ago: - Tradesy now initially operates in trial mode, and a “Buy & Activate…” menu command affords purchasing and registration. When not registered Tradesy imposes some limitations (adjusted cost base and capital gains amounts are hidden from several views, and exported portfolio data are limited to the first 50 rows). - A few bugs are fixed, including one where mousing over the equity overview performance graph would show the wrong percentage change in the tooltip. - A sample Tradesy workspace is provided, and can be opened by choosing “Help → Open Sample Document”. - The User’s Guide is bundled and accessible from “Help → Tradesy User’s Guide”. - Several debugging-related features (network activity window, cache settings, and random portfolio population) are now hidden by default. They can be re-enabled by running the command "defaults write ca.zygoat.Tradesy diagnosticToolsEnabled -bool true" in Terminal, and then relaunching. - Future pre-release builds will be excluded by default when checking for updates. To keep getting them, go to “Tradesy → Settings…” and turn on the “Update to pre-release versions” checkbox. - MacOS 12.0 (Monterey) or newer is now required due to changes for supporting the Mac App Store, where Tradesy may or may not also become available. (The build has been hamstrung in the typical Apple review cycle for more than a week now.) As my thanks for enduring my messages on this mailing list over the past year or two, I invite you to visit https://www.zygoat.ca/tradesy/buy/free (or add coupon code "FREEMONEY" at checkout) to receive a 100% discount and get your registration key to reactivate Tradesy. cheers, -ben

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Automatic currency conversion; improved mouse-over in graphs
by Ben Kennedy 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

Hi all, Build 0.230728 is up with the following improvements: • Asset valuations are now all reported in the portfolio currency. Those trading in a foreign currency will have the appropriate exchange rate applied. The currency pop-up menu for the performance graph is no more. • Hovering over a stock’s performance graph now gives an immediate and more prominent summary that follows the mouse. The tooltip delay is eliminated. Also: • Fixed a bug where stock splits of non-integer ratios (e.g. 1:1.5) were not properly handled. • Fixed a problem that caused quote updates to stop working yesterday. (Changes to a Yahoo API endpoint again caused queries to fail.) Update in-app or download from the site. -ben

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Improved trading report; exchange rate calculation; bug fixes
by Ben Kennedy 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Hello people, I was pleased to be able to use Tradesy in preparing my tax return last month, and doing so helped me identify and improve some shortcomings in the data reporting. New in build 0.230718 today: • The Gains & Losses table is renamed to Trading Summary, and several of its columns are revised to show information more useful for tax accounting. (In particular: total shares bought and sold, as well as cost base added and disposed, are separately tabulated.) • Cost base amounts (change and net) are shown in the Transactions table, and the total adjusted cost base is shown in the Holdings table. • Exchange rate (for foreign-currency transactions) is added as an available field for import and export. When importing, the transaction’s equivalent value will be calculated based on the exchange rate if not explicitly provided. • Improvements related to display and editing of yield-type transactions (dividends, return of capital, etc.). • Fixed a bug where the export field configuration was not saved after being changed. • Fixed a bug where fractional share quantities were being rounded to 3 decimal places. • Fixed a bug in the treatment of cost base on negative-balance transactions. As usual the latest build is on the web site and is also available by in-app update. -ben

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Cash accounting is optional; bulk edit dates; a couple of bug fixes
by Ben Kennedy 29 May '23

29 May '23

Hi all, Breaking the cadence, rather than waiting til Friday, with a fresh build. What's new in 0.230529 today: • Accounting for cash transfers in portfolios is now optional. With cash tracking off, you‘ll no longer be forced to record a deposit before being able to record a buy. Such transactions will be inferred. To disable it, visit Portfolio → Portfolio Settings… and turn off the Track deposits and withdrawals checkbox. • Transaction dates can be edited in bulk with Portfolio → Modify Transactions…. • More minor improvements to transaction importing. • Fixed a problem where symbol search and intra-day quote updates stopped working again late last week due another change in a Yahoo API endpoint. • Fixed a crash on launch caused by a cache database migration bug. Should a similar bug creep in again, Tradesy will present an error message instead of crashing. As usual, you can update in-app. If you're one of the theoretical handful affected by the launch crash, you can also grab it from the web site. -ben

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Undoable edits; re-orderable transactions; negative balances
by Ben Kennedy 20 May '23

20 May '23

Hello all, Another two Fridays, how about another release? What's new in build 0.230519: • Creating, modifying and deleting transactions are now all undoable. • Transactions on the same date can be re-ordered by drag and drop in the transaction list. This might be useful to correct situations where the order is fiscally material (such as doing a sell before a buy). • Negative cash and share balances are supported. To enable this, choose Portfolio → Portfolio Settings… and turn on the "Allow negative balances" checkbox. Tradesy will no longer complain about insufficient cash or shares when logging a buy or a sell if such a transaction causes the balance to fall below zero. • Fixed a bug where after modifying transactions in bulk the changes would only persist for the first transaction. Whoops. • Improved compatibility in transactions importing (extra text after a symbol name is ignored; dividends and other yields need not specify the number of shares). • Various minor user experience improvements related to portfolio & transaction display. • MacOS 11 (Big Sur) or newer is now required. This was necessitated by using new API to make managing the transactions list smooth and efficient, particularly in conjunction with the new undo support. As usual, you can update in-app, or download from the web site. Happy long weekend! -ben

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Portfolio transactions import
by Ben Kennedy 06 May '23

06 May '23

Hey all, While a recurring two-week release interval hasn't been deliberate it's been fortuitous, and today presents another, with that reciprocal capability last alluded. • Transactions can be imported from a CSV or tab-delimited text file. First select the target portfolio (or create a new one), then choose Portfolio → Import… in the menu. You’ll be prompted to indicate the order of fields in the file, after which Tradesy will make its best effort to import the contents accordingly. The importer does some heuristics to figure out things like date and number formats automatically, and to interpret the transaction type. No doubt there will be edge cases it doesn't handle properly; I'll be eager to hear about any issues you encounter so they can be accommodated. In addition: • Multiple transactions can be edited at once using Portfolio → Modify Transactions… to change the symbol or notes in bulk. (This might be useful to fix up symbol names after an import; e.g., “BBD.B” to “BBD-B.TO”.) • Fixed a bug where exporing portfolio data would yield an empty file instead of using a default field order. • Fixed a bug where entering some particular currency amounts might fail with the message “The cash amount is of a greater precision than can be traded”. As before, you can update in-app, or download from the web site. cheers, -ben

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Portfolio data export; arbitrary symbols; journaled shares
by Ben Kennedy 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

Hi everybody, A fornight from the last build, I'm pleased to offer another. Here's what's new: • Portfolio data can be exported as a CSV or tab-delimited text file. Bring the appropriate data into view, then choose Portfolio → Export… in the menu. You can customize the field order, date and number formats etc. by clicking the Configure Fields… button in the Save panel (the settings will be remembered for next time). • Transactions can now be created for an arbitrary symbol even when it can’t be found in a search. This permits logging past transactions for de-listed, renamed, or otherwise unavailable equities. • A new transaction type is supported: Journaled Shares. A journaling transaction permits adjustment of share quantity and cost base without creating a capital gain. • Tradesy will warn when opening a document created by a newer version of the app, in case the document uses features not understood by the running version. (Such is the case with journal transactions introduced in this version, for example; the prior build doesn’t know about them.) • When perusing historical quote data in the Overview or Strategy tabs, the Interval menu now accommodates data present in the local cache that might no longer be available from Yahoo (e.g., 1-minute quotes older than 30 days). You can update automatically in the app (“Check for Updates”), or download from the web site. The next work will be on the reciprocal functionality to data export: data import. cheers, -ben

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Split-adjusted prices; dividend history; automatic updating
by Ben Kennedy 08 Apr '23

08 Apr '23

Hello all, I'm happy to present a new build for your Easter-time financial pleasure; as before, you may download it here: https://www.zygoat.ca/software/tradesy/Tradesy.zip I've been working for the past several weeks on plumbing related to price transformation in order to support conversions and caching of data representing various pricing types, in part to fix the portfolio graphs, and moreover for greater flexibility in historical analysis. Here's a blurb from Investopedia that describes the concepts at hand: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adjusted_closing_price.asp Heretofore, Tradesy was always working with split-adjusted prices, because that's what the Yahoo API sends back. This was mostly fine because it meant you could look at a given stock's price graph over time and it would be coherent in respect of its value, not showing any strange spikes due to splits or consolidations. However, it was a problem when looking at portfolio returns, because the latter plotted each day's total value based on the stocks' daily closing prices -- which should have been adjusted in respect of splits, but weren't. (For example: on 13 June last year, BBD-B.TO underwent a 1:25 consolidation. The day prior I held 5000 shares at ~$1.13; afterwards I held 200 shares at ~$26.86. Because all the price data were split-adjusted and not raw market values, Tradesy's graph misrepresented the value of my holdings prior to 13 June by a factor of 25X.) Anyhow, that's all fixed now, and furthermore you can also purposefully choose to view (or not view) prices adjusted for splits and/or dividends when examining stocks' historical performance. This should also be the last build you need to download and unzip to install, because Tradesy now supports automatic updating! The next there's a new build you'll be able to update it with zero or one clicks (and it'll notify you about it, even if you stop reading this mailing list). Here's the summary of fixes and improvements in today's build: • Portfolio performance graphs now properly account for historical stock splits or consolidations. • A summary of an equity’s past splits and dividends is shown in the Overview tab. • The price adjustment for quotes and historical performance data shown in the Overview and History tabs can be chosen via a new View → Price Adjustment menu command: • As At Market: The values reflect actual raw market prices. • Adjusted for Splits: The values are adjusted in respect of splits/consolidations. (This is the default.) • Adjusted for Splits & Dividends: The values are adjusted in respect of splits/consolidations as well as dividends. • Tradesy will look periodically for updates, and can now update itself when a new version becomes available. You can check proactively with the Tradesy → Check for Updates…menu command. • Fixed a bug where the Buy/Sell submit button might be disabled when editing a transaction. • Better selection handling, drag-reordering, and undo/redo behaviour in the watchlist. • Other minor UI adjustments in the document window (search field is larger; redundant thumbnail graph is removed; a more prominent “Add to Watchlist” button is shown; untitled documents have a better name). A note about dividends shown in the overview: because Yahoo also serves these amounts as split-adjusted values, Tradesy has to back-calculate them according to splits. Since dividends are typically small amounts (often only several cents per share), these values can come in as comically-small numbers sometimes, and I'm concerned there might be risk for rounding errors. Furthermore, Yahoo seems to occasionally vend abjectly wrong data; using BBD-A.TO/BBD-B.TO again as an example, Yahoo is giving dividend prices that are off by orders of magnitude compared to other references. Please let me know if you see similar strange things that warrant investigation. Also the schema for the local cache database has changed in this build, and as such the cache will be flushed on first launch, but you shouldn't notice this at all. (If something goes awry though, let me know.) cheers, -ben

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Portfolio support makes its debut!
by Ben Kennedy 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hi people! Remember signing up for this list?! At long last I'm pleased to announce portfolio support in Tradesy. Get on it here: https://www.zygoat.ca/software/tradesy/Tradesy.zip I set up this mailing list more than a year and a half ago after starting work on portfolio support, expecting to have regular progress to show. As it turns out, work on Tradesy got back-burnered shortly thereafter and didn't resume again until the following spring, after which it's taken several months to lay the proper groundwork for a robust accounting ledger and flexible portfolio system. Finally it's now complete enough to be usable in initial form, and I hope to be able to roll out a number of improvements from here on. Tradesy is now a document-based app; a Tradesy doc can contain a watchlist and any number of portfolios. When you last saw Tradesy around May 2021 it presented a single window and the watchlist was stored automatically on your Mac; if you happened to build up a watchlist that you'd like to preserve, let me know. (It's not auto-migrated because I presumed nobody was likely to care.) The bare-bones web site is also updated with a new font and a few screenshots: https://www.zygoat.ca/software/tradesy/ Documentation remains a work in progress and will be evolving alongside development. Find it at https://www.zygoat.ca/software/tradesy/wiki/. This redirects to a Notion site that will be easier to maintain for now. As of this debut posting to the mailing list there are fewer of you subscribed than are countable on one hand, but with Tradesy starting to offer broader utility I'll begin to disseminate it amongst a broader audience. We'll see how this goes. Thanks for your interest and support! -ben

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Tradesy update (batch analysis, date fixes, better graphs)
by Ben Kennedy 14 May '21

14 May '21

Hey gents, It's been a few weeks since I last furnished a Tradesy update, so please find the latest attached! Here are the salient news: - Overview and history graphs show calendar time/day delineations, a reference line for previous close price, and a percentage axis. - Date range limitations are handled more smoothly. In cases where the Yahoo API doesn't support a request (e.g. one-minute interval data older than 30 days), the next-best alternative is automatically chosen. - Batch strategy analysis now works, initially featuring a choice of three batching methods. - Added one-week interval support, and deleted several that didn't work. - Watchlist refreshing is more efficient. - Performance improvements in the graphs. - Fixed a crash that could occur after reporting an error from the network. - "Scenarios" tabs renamed to "Strategy". Those annoying "data not available" alerts should now largely be a thing of the past. If you happen to run in to any, please let me know. I've basically been working around Yahoo's API limitations as I encounter them. The batch scenario (er, strategy) thing is finally implemented in rudimentary form! This stuff, of course, speaks to the initial motivation for writing Tradesy. There's surely a lot of scope for improvement and expansion here; as usual, any/all thoughts are more than welcome. I think I've shared this link with you all before, but just in case, a quick wiki I started in order to document Tradesy's provenance and particulars: https://www.notion.so/Tradesy-856b30818b384203be2f0f3832867983 I still need to update it with the latest, and eventually will move it to a proper web site. Pretty soon I also want to implement an automatic software update thing to make this more scalable and so that you can update at your leisure, but in the mean time, I figured a group email was the best way to distribute this. (Lemme know if you want off!) Thanks for playing and let's get rich, b Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Tradesy.app 9fda49d.zip"

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