Google Sheet for Tracking Investments

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Hello everyone,

A few months back I posted links on ShinyThings' thread pertaining to a spreadsheet I have made that can be used to track your investments and show your returns.

Quite a few people requested access for the file, and so I have continued to work on improving it.

Here are some of the key features:

1. Live prices* and currency rates
2. Total/Compounded returns over time
3. Realised/Unrealised profits and losses and total value
4. Track dividend payments
5. Compare your actual asset allocation with your target allocation
6. TER
7. How much of your portfolio is in accumulating vs distributing funds
8. Track cash deposits/funds: works with USD, SGD, GBP and Euros
9. Ability to change your base currency
10. Customise the order your funds appear on screen
11. Conditional formatting colour coding
12. Charts
13. 3 different modes to help you rebalance your portfolio - the spreadsheet will tell you how much to buy or sell of each fund to reach your desired allocations

* for some unknown reason, neither Google nor Yahoo support the SGX, so no live prices for Singapore stocks.

I will provide some video links which show how it works and it should be set up. I will also provide a demo version for viewing purposes. I would be happy for people to post constructive feedback in this thread.

Public Version for Viewing - here

Please have a look and then if you can see anything you would like improving, let me know. Once I have had sufficient feedback, I will publish a final version which you can download and use.

Video Guide 1 - Overview Sheet
Video Guide 2 - Rebalancing Sheet
Video Guide 3 - Dividends Sheet
Video Guide 4 - User Input Data Here Sheet
Video Guide 5 - Stock Summary, Transactions & Cash Register
Video Guide 6 - Bogleheads Returns Sheets
Video Guide 7 - Linking MyPortfolio with Bogleheads Returns

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I lost what was for me, a very large sum of money in the Zurich Vista scheme. Luckily I discovered index investing via Andrew Hallam and at least I am now in control of my financial decisions. I hope with this spreadsheet I am able to help others, as others have helped me.

Important! The spreadsheet is built upon InvestmentMoat's freely available sheet. On his website he states that he is happy for people to copy and edit it but I would like to reference him here all the same. Secondly, I also incorporated part of a Bogleheads' sheet which calculates returns. This is also freely available and I acknowledge that this part of the sheet is not my own work.

The rest, however, represents literally hundreds of hours of my time.

Known Bugs!

Re-download the sheet to get the latest version or fix it yourself using the instructions below:

FIXED - On the Stock Summary SGD sheet, only the first row is configured for SGD stocks; the rest are linked to the USD list. To fix this yourself, copy cell B2, select all the cells from B2 down the rest of column B, right click, select Paste Special, select Paste Data Validation only. Done.

FIXED - On the Transactions SGD sheet, in column F (fees) the amounts were showing in £ from row 4 downwards. You can fix this yourself by simply amending the formatting for the column.

FIXED - On the Overview sheet, column M (unrealised gains/losses), the numbers suddenly started to show with zillions of decimal places. Don't know why. Have forced the column to round down to 2 decimal places.
 
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Post script:

I am willing to publish a version now which can be edited - but only if people specifically request it, promise not to share the link, and also promise to leave it the way they found it, ie if you make any changes by adding data, please erase them before closing it.
 

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njstone9

Your sheet is using Yahoo price or Google price as reference to calculate profit/loss, etc.?
 

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how do i save a copy and use it ?

At the moment it's locked. When I've finished making the "how to..." videos, and when hopefully I've got some more feedback on missing features/improvements, I'll release one you can actually use.

PM me and perhaps I can give you a trial version ;)
 

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I have now finished all the "how to..." videos.

One person so far has requested to trial the sheet. I'm happy for others to trial it as well, so I can make any final necessary amendments/bug fixes etc.

Just PM me.
 

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Bump!

I've now got 5 people trialling the software. That's probably enough for now. I'll see what feedback I get. If you are very keen though to try it, just PM me :)
 

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Bump!

Added a "known bugs" section to the first post of this thread. One bug has been found (and fixed) so far.
 

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Found this thread after searching for njstone9 after reading both the IB and Shiny Things threads from the start. I was wondering if njstone9 has released the final version as I cannot seem to locate it. Would love to get started using this!
 

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Found this thread after searching for njstone9 after reading both the IB and Shiny Things threads from the start. I was wondering if njstone9 has released the final version as I cannot seem to locate it. Would love to get started using this!

I have finished a Lite version which is free to try. Click here

Currently trialling a revamped Full Version. I will post a new page with all the features etc once I am confident I've ironed out any bugs and finished the user manual.
 
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