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Strategies & Market Trends : Are you considering quitting your dayjob to daytrade?!
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To: David Harker who wrote (582)3/23/1999 5:59:00 PM
From: Bruce Mapes  Read Replies (1) of 611
 
I do the same thing. I had hundreds of trades this year. I put them in an Excel spreadsheet as I get the confirmations from my brokerage. I format the columns similar to the layout of schedule "D" Capital Gains/Losses. My accountant then puts the totals on the actual schedule D with "See attachment for detail".

Works great, and as you say, you can use all of the functions of a spreadsheet to analyze the trading results, have other columns with notes about the trade, or anything else you want. You just extract the columns the Fed. is interested in and print them out. Much better an re-entering the data into a tax package, or paying your accountant to sit there and enter them into his software.
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