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I believe TurboTax gets their data from the broker 1099 which does not always list trades in exact order of execution, does not have your positions carried over from last year cost basis, does not adjust for stock splits, etc. In addition the 1099 does not calculate wash sales. In the case of...

All I can say is in many cases the Fidelity reports are way off and you have no way of knowing this for sure because there are no proper accounting procedures in Turbotax to verify this when usiing Fidelity and TurboTax by themselves. Every tax season we go through this with our users who...

If you have saved your data file with 1/2 of the year imported and your hard drive crashes, you can simply copy the saved data file to your new hard drive (or new PC), open it with TradeLog and continue importing the rest of the year just like nothing happened. You should not be printing a...

TradeLog allows you to save a backup copy of your data file any time you like (File, Save As). This backup file can be saved anywhere you like and named anything you like and contains everything about your trading account in one concise plain text file which is extremely compact. It can be saved...

The notes field is plain text and cannot be a link to somewhere on your hard drive. But this is an interesting concept that may deserve some further research. Yes, you can open 2 or more instances of TradeLog each with a different brokerage account and different open positions windows.

condorll, thanks for your positive commment. TradeLog does not have the ability to store charts in the notes field. We have thought about this but it would require changing our plain text datafile to something more robust as a relational database which would add much additional overhead...

The problem with this approach is that you are relying on Fidelity to accurately calculate your cost basis and wash sales, which has proven over and over again to be incorrect. I know that this is a bold statement, but we have seen this many times with many different user accounts. Neither...

If you read anything I wrote it would be clear that the problem is not on our end but is an internet connection problem and we are NOT the only company to experience this. I tried to zip the file and it makes NO difference to those users who have this problem. I recompiled the setup file using...

So how did you handle wash sales?

This may be nice but it will still do nothing for the wash sale problem. The IRS code is quite clear that all wash sales MUST be reported.

Evidently the matter is not closed as Mr. Cohn continues to bad mouth our company and me personally, and continues to use language that is most unprofessional. I am not sure how we "can be friends." Anyone who has read all these posts should be able to see that our upgrades were not flawed...

The problem is that most brokers do not calculate wash sales, nor do they get them right whent they do. In addition TurboTax cannot handle wash sales on unequal numbers of shares traded such as when you sell 1000 shares at a loss and only repurchase 200 shares within the 30 day window. In this...

I can see that this forum is not much for providing useful information to traders, but more for slander and public humiliation. When you are in business you cannot always please every customer. RiceRocket is a classic example of one who wanted to extend his software subscription without paying...

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I refunded your full purchase price even though you are 3 months past the one month perfomance guarantee.

This just keeps getting worse and worse. Since you want this made public, I have no choice to respond in kind so everyone on this site knows what we have gone through: 1. I have all of your emails for support and on Jan 5 you had a problem when you tried to import a report that had NO buys...

Just because software wins a readers choice award does not make it accurate, and we do not advertise in this magazine. TradeLog is downloadable software that requires a user be able to download a setup file with no errors. You admitted that you were able to get the update and it worked...

We have many thousands of users who have had no problems with our TradeLog software. Please do a search for TradeLog on this web forum to see what I mean. But no software is perfect, eventually any software program will show problems. But we are the only company who takes pride in solving...

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A stock is not the same as a mutual fund and it does not matter if the fund includes the stock. If you trade the same mutual fund then you may incur wash sales.

The IRS uses the term "substantially identical" securities so APPL is not the same as DELL. But this can apply to stocks and options on the same underlying security such as when you sell 100 sh of DELL at a loss and then buy 1 DELL option contract - see...