Portfolio Performance

Portfolio Performance is a highly advanced tool that will give access to a detailed analysis of your investments. Due to its complexity, it can seem intimidating at first. However, practice makes it better. Upon downloading the application, you will find a set of data meant to exemplify all the options and features it offers access to.

It will save your data in an XML file, stored on your device; to output information, you can also go for CSV or JSON exporting. To calculate your historical monetary performance efficiently, it uses automatic updating from 2 sources (Yahoo Finance, AlphaVantage); additionally, you can opt for manually uploading the course data.

The main categories of interest are securities, accounts, reports, taxonomies, general data. The first one, ‘Securities’, is a container for several important watchlist indices (e.g. Dax, Dow Jones, etc.). You use preexisting data and add new lists. The ‘Accounts’ section will keep track of your deposits, securities, and other investment plans.

The vast ‘Reports’ section contains detailed descriptions of your activity’s performance, historical return and volatility, your earnings and expenses, trades, and much more. The ‘Taxonomies’ section is a place for evaluating asset classes (such as cash, equity, debt, real estate, etc.) and their allocation. The ‘General Data’ section is mostly for setting up your portfolio’s parameters and currencies.

In the 'General Data' settings, you will find the currency setup. Every time the application starts, it loads automatically the exchange rates of the European Central Bank (ECB), for the major currencies. Also, a currency converter based on the same references is available in a separate tab of the same section.

The tool will allow for data insertion such as the following types of transactions: buy, sell, delivery (inbound/outbound), deposits, interests, fees, taxes, refunds, etc. You can record, classify, and sort for later analysis detailed information such as different transactions conducted with separate currencies, their fees, takes, plus the refunds registered on individual deals.

In conclusion, Portfolio Performance is a program with amazing capabilities that offers both in-depth and a general overview of your investment portfolio. It is meant to be used by experienced individuals interested in tracking and evaluating their transactions’ performance. Moreover, due to its ability that allows for both automatic real-time updates and uploading historical data, Portfolio Performance can be categorized as a high-class investment performance tracker.