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Broker files

Where the data comes from

If AlertDesk doesn't know your broker

Import the broker's transactions file anyway. AlertDesk shows the first rows and guesses which column is the date, the action, the symbol, the quantity, the price, the fees, the amount and the account, and what each action word means. You check and correct the guesses; anything you're not sure of goes to Needs a look. The answers are kept as your own layout for that broker (Settings → Your own file layouts): used for later files with the same columns, and never replaced by updates.

Last resort: AlertDesk's own template. Copy your trades into it, one row per action, save it as CSV and import it.

Date	Account	Action	Symbol	Quantity	Price	Fees	Amount
2026-09-01	...123	Buy	ABCD	10	12.50	0
2026-09-02	...123	Sell to Open	WXYZ 2026-10-16 20 P	1	2.00	0.66
2026-09-04	...123	Dividend	ABCD				1.20

Date: The day it happened, as YYYY-MM-DD.
Account: The masked number your broker shows, like ...123. Optional.
Action: One of: Buy, Sell (shares); Buy to Open, Sell to Open, Buy to Close, Sell to Close; Expired; Assigned; Dividend, Interest, Deposit, Withdrawal, Fee.
Symbol: The ticker, or an option as ticker, expiry, strike and C or P: WXYZ 2026-10-16 20 P.
Quantity: Always positive: shares, or contracts for options.
Amount: Leave it empty on trades and AlertDesk works it out. On money rows: money into the account positive, money out negative.