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Import your holdings into Trading Desk from a CSV

How Trading Desk 1.1.1 imports holdings from a broker CSV or any spreadsheet, using a small made-up file on a fictional demo portfolio: the layout, merge or replace, the preview of what will change with a check on every row, and Confirm and save.

Recorded in Trading Desk 1.1.1 on the fictional demo portfolio. The captions are part of the picture; there is no sound. The video plays from this site: nothing loads from anywhere else.

Step by step, with screenshots: Import your holdings from a CSV, and export yours.

Also on YouTube: Import your holdings into Trading Desk from a CSV (the link opens YouTube, which has its own privacy terms).

Transcript

  1. 00:03 Importing holdings from a CSV, on Trading Desk's fictional demo portfolio.
  2. 00:07 Portfolio, Import reads a CSV from your broker or from any spreadsheet.
  3. 00:12 This made-up file has four columns: Ticker, Quantity, Cost per unit and Currency.
  4. 00:17 Detect from the file recognised the columns; Choose the columns maps any other file.
  5. 00:22 Beta layouts: Trading 212, Revolut stocks, Freetrade, Fidelity and Interactive Brokers.
  6. 00:26 Merge keeps holdings that are not in the file; Replace would drop them.
  7. 00:31 What will change: 1 added, 1 changed, 6 unchanged, before anything is saved.
  8. 00:36 Every row from the file gets a check before it can be saved.
  9. 00:41 The file is read in your browser and sent only to the desk, never elsewhere.
  10. 00:48 Confirm and save backs up the current portfolio file first, then saves.
  11. 00:53 Holdings now has PG, and AAPL at 15 shares; the other holdings keep their quantities.
  12. 00:59 Your holdings, watchlist and journal export as CSV from Settings, Your data.
  13. 01:05 Trading Desk.