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This is a common spreadsheet format for storing share trades. It consists of the 6 fields shown below;
Date | Buy/Sell | Company | Shares | Price | Total
The "Total" field stores either the net proceeds on a sell or the total cost on a buy. This value is negative for a buy and almost always positive for a sell. Valid values for the Buy/Sell field are B, S , Buy and Sell and case is not important.
01/12/02 | buy | BARC | 3000 | 4.8225 | -14554.84 |
02/12/02 | sell | BARC | 3000 | 4.91 | 14715.00 |
B | 01/12/2000 | BARC | 3000 | 4.8225 | 15.00 | 72.33 |
S | 02/12/2000 | BARC | 3000 | 4.91 | 15.00 | 0.00 |