You can make daily record of your swing trading transactions.

By manually tracking your swing trading transaction when you purchase stocks and when you sell stocks, you can pull report of your daily record keeping analyzing your daily profit, your weekly profit, and your monthly profit.

If you trade in your taxable brokerage account, you will be able to estimate your estimated tax along the way.

How to record keep your swing trading transactions?

Trade expenses journal entries
Trade expenses journal entries

For each stock you purchased you record the quantity, the unit cost, as well as the total cost. When you sell a stock, you record the stock symbol, the quantity sold, the unit price, and the total return as well as the fee. You calculate the profit and the rate of return.

The simple rate of return is the profit divided by the total cost of purchasing the stock times 100.

If some stocks in your portfolio paid you dividend, it is good to record this dividend income on your dividend sheet.

If you move funds in or out of your account, you could record these deposit or withdrawal as well.

Conclusion: Trade Expenses Journal Entries

The video explains how to record keep your daily swing trading transactions.

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