Iâd expect (with tiered) that you would pay about 0,30 USD for a 5000 USD purchase of VT, normally.
Reports->other reports->transactions cost analysis
Can you make sense of these numbers? Thereâs no mention of the 9.75 transaction cost listed in the summary screenshot aboveâŠ
Seems indeed that report is a bit too much detail⊠maybe your monthly activity report is better?
You havenât paid any transaction cost other than the commission. You can find the commission/fee in the Trades section of the Activity report.
The transaction P/L that youâre looking at is an accounting thing that you shouldnât care about.
And your portfolio is fluctuating as the currency exchange rate moves.
Thanks! So according to the trades section I payed 3 dollars in fees in total for both the currency conversion and the VT-etf acquisition.
Those 11.56 in transaction P/L are nonetheless missing from my portfolio value, which apparently does not happen to other users. Any way to avoid this next time?
Furthermore, I still canât quite grasp how I lost 23 chf in total by just simply converting currency and buying etf-stocks
You canât avoid it. The loss/profit item is there because the market value of USD / VT has changed between your purchase and the last price that day (or something like that).
Nothing to be concerned about. Youâve lost value because the thing youâve bought is worth less. Tomorrow it might be worth more, or even less. Thatâs normal
Thanks for your reassurence! What still baffles me is the magnitude of the loss/profit ratio. According to the portfolio tab the value of my VT stocks have increased by 0.07%, so the 20 chf loss must solely stem from usd to chf exchange rate fluctuations?
This is an equivalent of 2 USD, exchange fee, in your base currency.
Was it âbookedâ, deducted as cash, or just shown as Profit & Loss?
I think you have a misunderstanding of what is happening. These âlossesâ are nothing else then the difference between the current value and the purchase value (cost basis). It is constantly changing. Just ignore its momentary value.
P.S. exactly what I meant.
Means a change due to the transaction made that day. Tomorrow it will be"position ".
Thanks a lot for your reassurance/explanation! I wasnât aware that such âbigâ fluctuations in my portfolio value could happen within such short timeframes (few hours). I guess I just have to get used to it
Was the currency conversion already settled?
Youâll live through it Iâm sure.
Before you know it day fluctuations will range in the hundreds, then thousands. In 20+ years it will hopefully be tens of thousands, itâs all normal.
Yes. To my understanding, trading with unsettled cash is not possible.
Hopefulley haha!
I just wasnted to make sure I didntât mess up in some way, especially in the hindsight of upcoming investments with bigger sums!
You mean, -0.2%?
From the screenshot USD was 0.90379. Meanwhile USD is 0.9013. Very likely you checked P/L when the USD drop happend.
As others said, get used to daily fluctuations. Mine are sometimes 10k or more every day. At some point you ignore it and check only once per week or month.