Import your Fidelity trades

1. Log in at fidelity.com and open the Activity & Orders tab of your Portfolio Summary.
2. Its History section lists the trades and transfers that have processed.
3. Download the history for the period you want as a CSV file.

Fidelity’s help confirms where the history is; the download itself can look different in your account. If you can’t find it, look in your account’s history or activity export, or ask Fidelity.

Stocka finds the header row (Run Date, Action, Symbol, Quantity, Price ($), Commission ($), Fees ($), Amount ($)) past the blank lines and the account line at the top, and stops at the notes under the table. Action says what each row is: YOU BOUGHT and REINVESTMENT are buys, YOU SOLD is a sale. When an older file leaves Symbol empty, the ticker is taken from Action. Dates are read month first, New York time.

1. On iPhone, open Portfolio › Trades, tap Import or export, then Import CSV…. On iPad, Trades is also in the sidebar. On the Mac, choose File › Import Trades….
2. Pick the file. Stocka recognises it and sets Format to Fidelity Activity & Orders, with the columns already matched.
3. Check What’s in the file and the rows: each row says what will happen to it, and Positions after the import shows each holding’s shares before and after.
4. Confirm the import. A backup of the book is written first. Settings › Imports can undo the whole import.

• Fees: Commission ($) and Fees ($) are added together into the trade’s fee.
• Dividends: each DIVIDEND RECEIVED row becomes a dividend, with the FOREIGN TAX PAID on it when that posts within a week. A REINVESTMENT row is the buy of the shares the dividend paid for. Only US-dollar dividends the book doesn’t have yet (the same stock paid on the same day) are added.
• What is left out: transfers, interest and the core money-market fund (SPAXX, FDRXX…) are not trades and are skipped. Options, bonds and CDs are listed as not a stock, and a row that moves shares for another reason, such as a merger, a transfer or a split, is listed with its Action as the reason; none of them is imported.
• Duplicates: a trade already in the book — the same broker ID, or the same symbol, side, day, shares, price and fee — is marked Already in the book and left out, so a file that overlaps the last one counts nothing twice. A possible duplicate is the same symbol on the same day at a price within 1%; it stays out unless you turn on Include possible duplicates.

Take a screenshot of your broker app’s positions screen and choose Import from screenshot… in the same menu (File › Import from Screenshot… on the Mac). Stocka reads each symbol, its shares and its average cost on your device; you check each row and turn it on before it goes in. A positions screen has no buy dates, so each holding goes in with its date unknown.

A CSV from any broker imports, as long as it has a header row. Pick it the same way. If Format shows Other spreadsheet, open Columns and match Date, Symbol, Shares and Price, and Buy or sell and Fees if the file has them. Set Dates to Day/Month/Year or Month/Day/Year, and turn on Decimal comma (1.234,56) if the file writes numbers that way. Stocka remembers the columns for the next file of that kind.

Everything you import lands in Stocka’s trade journal: every buy and sell with its fees, your average cost, and your realised and unrealised P&L, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. The journal and file imports are free.