InputType: RealTick CSV Files
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Each time RealTick is completing a buy or sell order/trade
it will write one line to the daily trade text file on your Hard Disk
with all the trading information (except the commission/fee).
These Trade Files are located in the "trading" subdirectory beneath the main
RealTick directory.
RealTick will create a new file for each day in the following manner
TRDSyyyymmdd.CSV
(yyyy=Year, mm=Month, dd=Day)
Example:
On Oct 21st, 2000 RealTick will create ...\Trading\TRDS20001021.csv
CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values".
You should save these CSV files on a regular basis!
CSV data files are only recommended for use if no daily margin report or Quicken QIF
transaction
files are NOT available, because the actual FEE charged is not recorded,
because the accounting takes place overnight long after the trade has been written to the
CSV log file!
Also some trades are phoned it or there are disk problems and will be missing from the CSV
files!
StockTax will use its Automatic Fee Calculation to make a 99%
correct estimate about the fee charged
RealTick CSV File Format
Each field is separated by the comma as shown below:
ACCT1,ACCT2,ACCT3,ACCT4,TYPE,QTY,SYM,PRICE,CONTRA,SYSTEM,TIME,FEE
320,SD1,XXXX,12345678,Buy,100,PSIX,10 27/32,BRUT,SELECTNET,13:13:47
320,SD1,XXXX,12345678,Sell,100,PSIX,11 13/16,BRUT,SELECTNET,13:41:56
| ACCT1-4 | Identifies your Account and the branch and broker |
| TYPE | Type of order (Buy or Sell etc) |
| QTY | Number of shares |
| SYM | Ticker Symbol |
| PRICE | Transaction Price |
| CONTRA | Contractor ID used |
| SYSTEM | Route used |
| TIME | Execution Time in the day (HH:MM:SS) |
| FEE | Fee for the transaction - normally blank This field is NOT supplied by RealTick, but allows you to overwrite the StockTax default fee from the Automatic Fee Calculation |
Start StockTax and select RealTick CSV from the
broker list in Step1 and
the select the files in the CSV folder in Step2
Generate the Report in Step4