Import your Schwab trades

1. Log in at schwab.com and go to Accounts › History. Schwab shows up to four years of transactions there.
2. Choose the account and the dates.
3. Export the transactions as a CSV file.

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

Stocka finds the header row (Date, Action, Symbol, Description, Quantity, Price, Fees & Comm, Amount), past an older export’s title line, and skips the Transactions Total row. Buy and Reinvest Shares are buys, Sell is a sale. A date written “03/14/2026 as of 03/13/2026” counts on the second day, and BRK/B becomes BRK-B. 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 Schwab Transactions, 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: Fees & Comm becomes the trade’s fee.
• Dividends: dividend rows (Qualified Dividend, Cash Dividend, Reinvest Dividend and the like) become dividends, with the NRA tax withheld on them when it posts within a week. Reinvest Shares 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: MoneyLink transfers, interest, capital-gain distributions and the sweep money funds (SWVXX, SNVXX…) are not trades and are skipped. Options (Buy to Open and the like) are listed as not a stock, and a row that moves shares for another reason, such as Journal or Stock 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.