Microsoft KB Archive/153083

Money: How to Track Stock Lots

PSS ID Number: Q153083 Article last modified on 09-12-1997

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Although Money does not have specific features for tracking stock lots, this article discusses a method you can use to track them using Money.

A lot is a block of stock or mutual fund shares purchased at the same time. For example, if you bought 100 shares of Parnell Aerospace on January 2nd and 200 shares on March 5th, you would own two lots of Parnell Aerospace stock.

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How to Track Lots
If you want to track your investment purchases by lot so you can specify which purchase you’re selling when you sell shares of a security, do the following:

  Use a slightly different name to record each separate purchase of the stock in the Money account register. For example, call the first lot “Parnell Aerospace (a)” and the second lot “Parnell Aerospace(b)” (without the quotation marks.)   When you sell the stock, enter a sell transaction for the specific group of shares (lot) you are selling. If you sell all of the stock, enter the sale of each “lot” separately. 

NOTE: If you use this method, your reports and charts will reflect the profits and losses for each lot rather than for the investment as a whole.

The names of companies, products, people, characters, and/or data mentioned herein are fictitious and are in no way intended to represent any real individual, company, product, or event, unless otherwise noted.

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