Portfolio and Cost Basis Tracking Tools

Either of the third-party applications described below may help you to track and manage capital gains and account for the cost basis implications of wash sales and corporate actions in your portfolio.

Wolters Kluwer Financial, GainsKeeper

GainsKeeper® is designed to save investors time and aggravation when tracking cost basis information and help manage gains and losses in their investment portfolios. GainsKeeper’s tools include:

  • Automated wash sale and corporate action processing. GainsKeeper helps identify and calculate wash sales and corporate actions and automatically adjusts cost basis.
  • Schedule D functionality. GainsKeeper tracks capital gains throughout the year and helps investors to generate a Schedule D.
  • Tax-smart trading strategies. Investors may increase after–tax returns, maintain investment objectives, generate pre-trade analysis, and avoid wash sales by using GainsKeeper's portfolio optimization tools.

Fidelity customers receive 25% off GainsKeeper subscriptions. Enter promotional code FIDELITY when subscribing to get your discount.


tradelog software for Active Traders

TradeLog® is a tax accounting software designed specifically for the complex tax reporting requirements of active traders and investors.

TradeLog features include:

  • Wash Sales, Capital Gains, Schedule D all handled quickly and accurately for IRS reporting.
  • Simple to use, fully automated, yet extremely powerful.
  • The brokerConnect feature makes importing available trade history from your Fidelity account easy.
  • Comprehensive portfolio management and trade analysis tools.
  • MTM version for Traders using mark to market accounting method.
  • FREE TRIAL VERSION – Try TradeLog® for free.

20% Instant Rebate for all Fidelity clients!