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by Rob Relyea
Fri Mar 24, 2023 6:00 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: portfolio spreadsheet apps.
Replies: 3
Views: 445

Re: portfolio spreadsheet apps.

bogle.tools/portfolio has started as a way to collect portfolio info (including via imports of CSV files from different custodians) on the way towards building a portfolio review post.

The tool has started to do calculate asset allocations automatically (works now for most fidelity/vanguard funds, otherwise not possible to do for all funds, but I'll react to requests).
I plan to add rebalancing support in the tool in the next few months.

I'm anxious for people to try it for this kind of scenario, and give me feedback on anything missing or in need of improvements.

Here is the forum post discussing the portfolio tool: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
by Rob Relyea
Thu Mar 23, 2023 10:22 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

Added 3 new known ticker symbols: TBILL, IBOND, TIPS -- all classified as bonds in asset allocation calculation.

Please let me know (via reply, private message or email to suggestions@bogle.tools) if you can think of other ticker symbols that are similiar, that don't conflict with real ticker symbols, but cover popular things in people's portfolios.
by Rob Relyea
Thu Mar 23, 2023 7:25 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Retirement portfolio (for 77 yo mom)
Replies: 7
Views: 856

Re: Retirement portfolio (for 77 yo mom)

Social Security: $36K (with COLA)
Pensions: $12K (no COLA)
Annual Spending: $70K
Needed from Investments: $22K or 1.344%

Curious to hear opinions here. Helping manage somebody’s finances in similar situation …they are in early eighties, in ccrc, withdrawal rate is 2.2% and they are using a 3 fund (60/40, 20intl).
Your mom has an even smaller withdrawal rate.
by Rob Relyea
Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:31 pm
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: weighted expense ratio calculation?
Replies: 9
Views: 1142

Re: weighted expense ratio calculation?

jebmke wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:28 pm Mine shows up in Portfolio Watch. I have no idea if it is accurate but it looks right.
That is good to hear, thanks.
I'm trying to put it into the flow for portfolio reviews...and make it easy to calculate and collect that data.

[update]:
I actually decided to add the feature because I see it is one of the inputs of FireCalc.com on the your portfolio page -- would be nice to make it easier to calculate the inputs needed for firecalc.
by Rob Relyea
Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:23 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

Just announced a small improvement on a "weighted expense ration calculation?" thread: I've just added weighted expense ratio calculation to bogle.tools/portfolio - a tool to help people compose Portfolio Review posts. ( forum thread about bogle.tools/portfolio ) You can try it out with a sample portfolio here: https://bogle.tools/portfolio/topic/400371 (this is the portfolio from post topic #400371 - a portfolio I made $10K, since there were no amounts) Above the "current retirement assets", it will show: Weighted Expense Ratio: 0.041% or $3.96 per year If you want to try it out with your own portfolio, navigate to http://bogle.tools/portfolio (or press Clear Portfolio button if you are using the sample portfolio). Once...
by Rob Relyea
Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: weighted expense ratio calculation?
Replies: 9
Views: 1142

Re: weighted expense ratio calculation?

I've just added weighted expense ratio calculation to bogle.tools/portfolio - a tool to help people compose Portfolio Review posts. ( forum thread about bogle.tools/portfolio ) You can try it out with a sample portfolio here: https://bogle.tools/portfolio/topic/400371 (this is the portfolio from post topic #400371 - a portfolio I made $10K, since there were no amounts) Above the "current retirement assets", it will show: Weighted Expense Ratio: 0.041% or $3.96 per year If you want to try it out with your own portfolio, navigate to http://bogle.tools/portfolio (or press Clear Portfolio button if you are using the sample portfolio). Once you navigate to https://bogle.tools/portfolio/retirement-assets - you can hand enter your accoun...
by Rob Relyea
Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:09 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

I've added I Bonds, Annuity (Non-Qualified) and Annuity (Qualified) as options for account types in bogle.tools/portfolio/retirement-assets

Update: got some suggestions via PM:
- changed I Bonds to Treasury Direct
- added Roth 401k, SEP IRA, Solo 401k

Complete list of choices now: (bold ones are new since initial post)
401k
403b
457b
Annuity (Non-Qualified)
Annuity (Qualified)

HSA
Inherited IRA
Inherited Roth IRA
IRA
Rollover IRA
Roth 401k
Roth IRA
SEP IRA
SIMPLE IRA
Solo 401k
Taxable
Traditional IRA
Treasury Direct


Please let me know if you see any I'm missing (in this thread, via private message, or email to suggestions@bogle.tools)
by Rob Relyea
Sat Mar 18, 2023 4:28 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: I am now FULLY Indexed, and at DIRT CHEAP costs (Portfolio Review)
Replies: 31
Views: 3427

Re: I am now FULLY Indexed, and at DIRT CHEAP costs (Portfolio Review)

I've experimented with uploading portfolio details from some posts and making so that anybody could open that portfolio up in bogle.tools/portfolio. In fact, a new post today (forum topic 400371) ( I am now FULLY Indexed, and at DIRT CHEAP costs (Portfolio Review) ) looked interesting to me. So I entered the portfolio data using bogle.tools/portfolio. When somebody just gives percentages, I enter each percentage as a dollar amount. ...Thanks again for any suggestions or comments... You can see that data loaded into the tool by navigating to bogle.tools/portfolio/topic/400371 As I build more analysis tools into the tool, this kind of thing will become more interesting... Not directly related to the topics being discussed...but I experimente...
by Rob Relyea
Sat Mar 18, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

I've experimented with uploading portfolio details from some posts and making so that anybody could open that portfolio up in bogle.tools/portfolio. In fact, a new post today (forum topic 400371) ( I am now FULLY Indexed, and at DIRT CHEAP costs (Portfolio Review) ) looked interesting to me. So I entered the portfolio data using bogle.tools/portfolio. When somebody just gives percentages, I enter each percentage as a dollar amount. ...Thanks again for any suggestions or comments... You can see that data loaded into the tool by navigating to bogle.tools/portfolio/topic/400371 As I build more analysis tools into the tool, this kind of thing will become more interesting... P.S. I also enter other people's data occasionally to see if my fund da...
by Rob Relyea
Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:55 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

A few weeks/months ago, LadyGeek and I briefly discussed via Private Message adding a link from the https://bogleheads.org/wiki/Prioritizing_investments page (and/or perhaps other locations on bogleheads.org) to bogle.tools/saving. If I recall correctly, we didn't want to suggest that before the tool was mature enough.

Here is my backlog of issues...Currently 15 open issues related to AnnualSavings part of bogle.tools:
https://github.com/bogle-tools/site/iss ... ualSavings

Any issues that you think need to be added?
Which, if any of these issues, or other improvement ideas, should be fixed before we call the tool good enough to advertise more widely to users?

Always hungry for more feedback.
Thanks, Rob
by Rob Relyea
Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:52 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Do Roth IRA Contributions Count Toward Your 401(k) Limit?
Replies: 7
Views: 692

Re: Do Roth IRA Contributions Count Toward Your 401(k) Limit?

Built a tool (bogle.tools/saving) that helps you understand prioritized investments. Helps enact the steps from https://bogleheads.org/wiki/Prioritizing_investments which has 10 prioritized steps. 401k is step 2 and step 6. IRA or Roth IRA is step 5. As you’ve learned above, those steps are separate.
by Rob Relyea
Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:33 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Help rebalance this portfolio
Replies: 6
Views: 586

Re: Help rebalance this portfolio

I'm continuing to enhance bogle.tools/portfolio as a way to help create portfolio reviews. I tested entering your post and got something like this: Portfolio Size: $862K Current Retirement Assets: his Rollover IRA at Vanguard (9.3%) 2.9% Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares (VBILX) (0.07%) 6.4% Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares (VTIAX) (0.11%) Taxable at Schwab (11.2%) 5.8% Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund Admiral Shares (VEXAX) (0.06%) 5.3% Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund Admiral Shares (VBTLX) (0.05%) 0.1% Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares (VTIAX) (0.11%) Taxable at Empower (52.2%) 52.2% Vanguard Institutional Index Fund Institutional Shares (VINIX) (0.035...
by Rob Relyea
Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:58 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

Rob Relyea wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 2:35 pm We wrote a walk-through blog post on substack describing how to use the bogle.tools annual savings tool for Sam, a 28year-old with $120k salary.

Walkthrough: Annual SAVINGS tool - Sam, 28y.o., $120k salary

If you like the content, and are following enhancements to the tool, please consider subscribing to https://bogletools.substack.com
If we were going to do a few more walkthrough scenarios. Does anybody have recommendations on the next few scenarios to walk through for people?
by Rob Relyea
Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:40 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

There are a few new custodians notably public.com that don't have account download but because they use apex clearing under the hood you can create a corresponding apex account and get a nice csv download of the information so right now mine has the following columns: Symbol,Description,Qty,Price,Market Value,Day Change EFV,ISHARES TRUST ISHARES MSCI EAFE VALUE ETF,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx You can select the columns to display and the order of them left to right. Thanks placeholder for the pointer to public/apex. Adding that to my backlog with: https://github.com/bogle-tools/site/issues/78 Have never heard of public before, but I see they may be interesting because of Brokerage transfer bonuses. Closed issue #78 as not planned. (updated table in fi...
by Rob Relyea
Sat Mar 04, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Where would you invest $5k today, if you were in my position?
Replies: 33
Views: 3075

Re: Where would you invest $5k today, if you were in my position?

lakpr wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 3:34 pm Have you maxed out all your tax advantaged space? Meaning, do you max your workplace 401(k) and max Roth IRA?
Investing with money in taxable accounts is step 9 according to the Prioritizing investments wiki page. 401k is steps 2 and 6. Roth IRA is step 5.

I've created bogle.tools/saving to help you work through those 10 steps to determine the best way for you to be saving that $5,000 now.
by Rob Relyea
Sat Mar 04, 2023 2:35 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

We wrote a walk-through blog post on substack describing how to use the bogle.tools annual savings tool for Sam, a 28year-old with $120k salary.

Walkthrough: Annual SAVINGS tool - Sam, 28y.o., $120k salary

If you like the content, and are following enhancements to the tool, please consider subscribing to https://bogletools.substack.com
by Rob Relyea
Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:26 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

Posted a bunch of improvements to the Portfolio Info importing module. It now supports the scenario of updating your portfolio information once a month, or once a year more easily. 1) when you first import CSV files to your portfolio review retirement-assets page , it will now show you the accounts/investments found in the imported file(s). You can choose to import them all, or just import some of them. 2) also NEW: you can import several CSV files at once if you'd like...(select multiple files in the file open dialog that "Choose Files" displays) A month (or however long) later when you download updated CSVs for your accounts from your Custodians, the importing is smoother. As long as you don't edit the Account.Note field (the fi...
by Rob Relyea
Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:18 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Is it worth the energy to manually reinvest dividends in taxable account? How can I most easily track my AA?
Replies: 52
Views: 4804

Re: Is it worth the energy to manually reinvest dividends in taxable account? How can I most easily track my AA?

I wish I could plug my accounts into a program that spits out my AA automatically, but I'm not aware of a way to do that. In my portfolio I have a taxable account with mutual funds; a Roth IRA with mutual funds and an ETF; a 401k with mutual funds; an online savings account where I keep my EF and my paychecks go; regular checking and savings accounts, where I have a direct deposit set up with my checking; iBonds; and some treasury bonds. For me to calculate my AA, I have to tally everything up manually. Note, my taxable account and Roth are with eTrade but my 401k is with Fidelity so I can't rely on one of them to provide me with an AA automatically, cash aside. I’ve made my portfolio review tool support importing Fidelity account informat...
by Rob Relyea
Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:03 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Added Ameriprise CSV parsing support. (updated table in first post)

I didn't have a perfect example CSV to test with. Please let me know if somebody tries...let me know either way...success - i'll smile...failure - i'll work with you to help fix it.
by Rob Relyea
Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:31 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Recently added importing for Share count and Cost Basis from all the supported file formats.

Share count - supported in all.
Cost Basis - supported in all, except vanguard - vanguard doesn't include that data in their CSV file formats.

Haven't yet surfaced in UI, but tracking with this issue: use share quantity and cost basis, now that it is imported #83
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:57 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Hello- I'm quoting several people who may still have access to a Raymond James online login. As you can see from this thread, I'm trying to get access to a CSV file that a Raymond James user downloads from RaymondJames.com I'd like to add support to https://bogle.tools/portfolio to import account info for Raymond James customers. Can one of you please help? See the first post in this thread for details ...and ask if you have questions. (sorry for the wide use of quoting here...just trying to find somebody still logging into their account and checking their notifications...) Thanks, Rob Hi. I’m in a no fee account, but my advisor doesn’t do a thing. I have just north of 100K amongst bonds, 529, IRA and then the usual 19 fund Raymond James sp...
by Rob Relyea
Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:23 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Raymond James confession
Replies: 61
Views: 7891

Re: Raymond James confession

I confess I still have my IRA at RJ. albireo13 - quoted you in this post: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7136445#p7136445 Wondering if you could please share a Raymond James csv file with me (after anonymizing the data in it)? My portfolio is hovering around $1M right now. Here is a list of the portfolio, all IShares funds, followed by % of the portfolio. Fund cash 2.19 IEMG 0.53 QLTA 11.60 IEFA 9.79 IVV 28.19 MBB 4.01 IVW 1.79 IVE 24.97 GOVT 16.92 Thanks. Wasn’t looking for your details… I’m hoping to add the ability to import info from Raymond James website. Raymond James customer like you, logs into their website. Views their portfolio details. Clicks on “download” (or similar button???) to get a CSV file into their co...
by Rob Relyea
Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Raymond James confession
Replies: 61
Views: 7891

Re: Raymond James confession

albireo13 wrote: Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:00 pm I confess I still have my IRA at RJ.
albireo13 - quoted you in this post: viewtopic.php?p=7136445#p7136445

Wondering if you could please share a Raymond James csv file with me (after anonymizing the data in it)?
by Rob Relyea
Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:07 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

From: viewtopic.php?t=398522
albireo13 wrote: Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:00 pm I confess I still have my IRA at RJ.
albireo13 (or others with Raymond James accounts) - please see top post above. If you have access to a CSV file (or other data file download) for you Raymond James portfolio, can you please anonymize the data file, and share that with me? I’d like to help people like you get a good good portfolio review, more easily…
by Rob Relyea
Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:04 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

I've started to track the status of all file formats in a "table" in the first post of this thread.

Please keep the suggestions and file format examples coming, we are up to 7 different file formats being importable now!
by Rob Relyea
Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:50 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

My goal is to make it so my personal spreadsheet is no longer needed, or at least much less so.

So I'd like to see the following enhancements to bogle.tools/portfolio:
- change imports to track share quantity, not just total price
- portfolio updates via imports be easy...perhaps if you reimport a Custodian's CSV file, it should replace the earlier imported accounts. Today you have to delete the old ones by hand. (Update 3/4/2023 -- this is done now)
- price updates performed automatically (not sure of best way to enable for me, and anybody, without $600 per year charge. Need to investigate.
- asset allocations calculated [started, see message above]
- help with AA balancing calculations
- more...
by Rob Relyea
Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:39 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Rob Relyea wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:00 am Somebody reached out via email saying that they could get one Custodian import to work, but their Vanguard CSV file wasn't working.
One possibility, they said, is that they still have the Original Vanguard Mutal Fund Account...so I will work with them to see if we can figure out the difference in that CSV file format, so the importing logic can be made to work with it also.

Tracking this problem here: https://github.com/bogle-tools/site/issues/79

I've taken a stab at importing CSVs from Vanguard Mutual Fund Account (orig account type).
Sample file: https://github.com/bogle-tools/financia ... d-orig.csv
by Rob Relyea
Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:00 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

Wanted to add a feature to show Actual Asset Allocation for the portfolio. This is still experimental but works with many newly entered (or imported) vanguard or fidelity funds. Big Feature: show Asset Allocation for portfolio #77 If you click the Show Actual Asset Allocation checkbox on bogle.tools/portfolio you'll see: [ X ] Show Actual Asset Allocation (experimental) [Experimental: works with some Fidelity and Vanguard funds, right now] Actual Asset allocation: 89.8% stocks / 10% bonds Actual International allocation: 19.9% Actual Cash allocation: 0.2% Actual Unclassified allocation: 0% My key data file with fund info ( funds.json ) now has assetType = Stock or InternationalStock or Bond or Cash, for many Fidelity Stock funds, and for ma...
by Rob Relyea
Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

ETrade File - #2
I was submitted an ETrade file that was broken, even though I had another ETrade file that worked.
So I fixed the code to work for both.

Please let me know if I say that a format is supported, if it fails for you!!


TD Ameritrade
I was also submitted a TD Ameritrade file, but it was strange...so I opened an issue, and I will think about it a bit before I decide whether to parse it. I'd prefer if TD Ameritrade downloaded the file as a .CSV file.
TD Ameritrade file - csv format, but with .xls extension #80
by Rob Relyea
Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:00 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Somebody reached out via email saying that they could get one Custodian import to work, but their Vanguard CSV file wasn't working.
One possibility, they said, is that they still have the Original Vanguard Mutal Fund Account...so I will work with them to see if we can figure out the difference in that CSV file format, so the importing logic can be made to work with it also.

Tracking this problem here: https://github.com/bogle-tools/site/issues/79
by Rob Relyea
Wed Feb 22, 2023 6:42 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

placeholder wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:45 pm There are a few new custodians notably public.com that don't have account download but because they use apex clearing under the hood you can create a corresponding apex account and get a nice csv download of the information so right now mine has the following columns:

Code: Select all

Symbol,Description,Qty,Price,Market Value,Day Change
EFV,ISHARES TRUST ISHARES MSCI EAFE VALUE ETF,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx
You can select the columns to display and the order of them left to right.
Thanks placeholder for the pointer to public/apex.
Adding that to my backlog with: https://github.com/bogle-tools/site/issues/78

Have never heard of public before, but I see they may be interesting because of Brokerage transfer bonuses.
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:51 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Rob, here's a Merrill Edge sample. I have my own spreadsheet for tracking my portfolio, but thanks for working on this project. "COB Date","Security #","Symbol","CUSIP #","Security Description","Account Nickname","Account Registration","Account #","Quantity","Price ($)","Value ($)","Unrealized Gain/Loss ($)","Unrealized Gain/Loss (%)","Cumulative Investment Return ($)","Cumulative Investment Return (%)","Accrued Interest ($)" "2/17/2023","12345","FUNDX","123456789","MY FUND NAME","--","CMA-Edge","99X-12345&qu...
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:36 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Is it worth the energy to manually reinvest dividends in taxable account? How can I most easily track my AA?
Replies: 52
Views: 4804

Re: Is it worth the energy to manually reinvest dividends in taxable account? How can I most easily track my AA?

Rob Relyea wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:00 pm
Aguilar wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:10 pm I wish I could plug my accounts into a program that spits out my AA automatically
...
I’ve made my portfolio review tool support importing Fidelity account information via a CSV file.

I’d be happy to add CSV importing support for eTrade, see: viewtopic.php?t=398096
Can you please share an eTrade CSV file (anonymized if you like)?

Then, I’d be happy to work on an AA part of the tool, as I had been thinking of doing that soon anyway…
I've added support for importing ETrade CSV file.
I've opened an issue: add support to see Asset Allocation for portfolio #77
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Ok, ETrade CSV import is now supported by https://bogle.tools/portfolio/retirement-assets

This is in addition to the Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard CSV files that were already supported.

Thanks for your help!

Note: the CSV file I was given only had one account...if it is possible to get a CSV file from etrade.com that has more than one account in it, it likely won't work. Please let me know...
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
Topic: Which brokerage do you prefer, I have Fidelity and ETrade?
Replies: 73
Views: 5171

Re: Which brokerage do you prefer, I have Fidelity and ETrade?

Ok, ETrade CSV import is now supported by https://bogle.tools/portfolio/retirement-assets

This is in addition to the Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard CSV files that were already supported.

Thanks for your help!

Note: the CSV file I was given only had one account...if it is possible to get a CSV file from etrade.com that has more than one account in it, it likely won't work. Please let me know...
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 21, 2023 3:47 pm
Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
Topic: Which brokerage do you prefer, I have Fidelity and ETrade?
Replies: 73
Views: 5171

Re: Which brokerage do you prefer, I have Fidelity and ETrade?

Thanks. Somebody is helping me get that CSV file. Will reply back here once I've added support to import it, so others can test it out and report any problems.
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 21, 2023 1:15 pm
Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
Topic: Which brokerage do you prefer, I have Fidelity and ETrade?
Replies: 73
Views: 5171

Re: Which brokerage do you prefer, I have Fidelity and ETrade?

Can one of you with an ETrade account help me out, please? Per thread: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians , I'm asking for somebody to download an ETrade CSV file with their portfolio details, anonymize the data in it, and share with me, so I can improve bogle.tools/portfolio tool which helps people build a Portfolio Review post more easily. I have Fidelity and ETrade I use E-Trade for ESPP and RSUs Recommend contacting an etrade rep, it's easy, and they coached me on maximizing my $ by enrolling in a series of bonuses I have E*Trade, Fidelity and Vanguard. etrade free vanguard mutual funds. most Etrade for buying or selling all kinds of individual bonds. Etrade offers all grades...
by Rob Relyea
Tue Feb 21, 2023 10:55 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Importing ETrade investment info may be helpful in this thread: viewtopic.php?p=7129848#p7129848

(Assuming I also enhance the Portfolio Review tool to help calculate AA…which I am planning to do at some point)
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:00 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Is it worth the energy to manually reinvest dividends in taxable account? How can I most easily track my AA?
Replies: 52
Views: 4804

Re: Is it worth the energy to manually reinvest dividends in taxable account? How can I most easily track my AA?

I wish I could plug my accounts into a program that spits out my AA automatically, but I'm not aware of a way to do that. In my portfolio I have a taxable account with mutual funds; a Roth IRA with mutual funds and an ETF; a 401k with mutual funds; an online savings account where I keep my EF and my paychecks go; regular checking and savings accounts, where I have a direct deposit set up with my checking; iBonds; and some treasury bonds. For me to calculate my AA, I have to tally everything up manually. Note, my taxable account and Roth are with eTrade but my 401k is with Fidelity so I can't rely on one of them to provide me with an AA automatically, cash aside. I’ve made my portfolio review tool support importing Fidelity account informat...
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:05 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

Things get speculative very quickly. E.g., even using a Simple method to estimate future income (let alone estimating the marginal tax rate that income will incur), different defensible sets of parameter estimates can lead to significantly different conclusions. Speaking of the "over 50 and just starting" scenario, Old and Started in a Big Hole is just one example from today. That person is "forced" to go with a Roth IRA due to current income vs. the tIRA deduction limit, but at a lower income a traditional IRA would probably be best. Fortunately the choice of traditional vs. Roth isn't as important as whether to invest or not. If this tool can help people choose to invest at all, that will be more helpful than a t vs. ...
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:52 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

I got access to an Ameriprise CSV file, but it doesn't have any stocks/mutual funds in it. You'll notice I changed the account numbers and the investment details to anonymize the data. I'd love to have somebody who has an Ameriprise account with stocks/mutual funds, to share the details of the section that their downloaded CSV file would show...likely similar to "Alternative Investments" section, but guessing isn't good in software... Via bogleheads private message or email (suggestions@bogle.tools) would work well for me. PortfolioPositions_2-13-2023.csv : "All Accounts","ALL_ACCOUNTS" As of 02/13/2023 03:30 PM ET , "Total Asset Value","Brokerage Day Change","Total Cash & Equivalen...
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:25 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

Does that wiki content cover these choices appropriately? Yes, when it says "Contribute the maximum to an IRA, traditional or Roth (or backdoor Roth technique), depending on eligibility and personal circumstances." It is those personal circumstances that should affect any default suggestion. E.g., someone just starting a career that is statistically likely to provide significantly above inflation annual income increases should be given a different default than someone late in a career with plateaued income and not much in retirement savings. Both those situations could be considered as target audiences for Bogleheads. Given this example: those in their 50s with neither an expected pension nor a sizeable traditional balance, and a...
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:00 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

FiveK wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:25 pm
Rob Relyea wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:06 pm I've changed bogle.tools/saving to recommend Roth before a deductible IRA.
That should depend on current vs. expected marginal tax rates, and the AGI vs. IRA deductibility limit. E.g., those in their 50s with neither an expected pension nor a sizeable traditional balance, and able to deduct contributions, might be better off using traditional accounts instead of Roth.
On its IRA/Roth IRA page (bogle.tools/saving/ira-or-roth-ira), it currently shows all the content for that step from Prioritizing investments wiki.

Does that wiki content cover these choices appropriately?

I'd like to make sure I have the best default. And then I want to collect info for most common situations...to give good advice.
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:24 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

Would love to have your help to get:
  • Edward Jones CSV File
  • Ameriprise CSV File
...and others

This will help people who are discovering bogleheads investment philosophy and our community's Portfolio Reviews.
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:06 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

Thanks FiveK! I bring this up, because my college aged son was told by the tool, to put up to his income into an IRA and then backdoor it to a Roth. I would have thought, it should have told him to just do a Roth IRA directly. Yes, it should. I've changed bogle.tools/saving to recommend Roth before a deductible IRA. Is there any advantage to have people do an IRA and then backdoor it into a Roth, if there income is very low -- college student like? No. But for those over or even close to the Roth contribution limit, and without significant (up to the user to define) non-Roth IRA balances, just using the backdoor process is a good idea. That avoids the need to recharacterize if they make a direct contribution and later find that their AGI is...
by Rob Relyea
Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:18 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Retirement investing
Replies: 8
Views: 1493

Re: Retirement investing

I’ve made a tool that simplifies applying Prioritizing investments wiki for this and any situation given each person’s data: bogle.tools/saving.

Also, as their situation changes over time, the same tool should help them apply those priorities.
by Rob Relyea
Sun Feb 19, 2023 3:13 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)
Replies: 53
Views: 5266

Re: bogle.tools/saving - tool to Prioritize Investments (per bogleheads wiki)

I'd love feedback on how bogle.tools/saving (also used by bogle.tools/portfolio ) recommends what type of IRA to get. I bring this up, because my college aged son was told by the tool, to put up to his income into an IRA and then backdoor it to a Roth. I would have thought, it should have told him to just do a Roth IRA directly. Did the tool recommend it correctly? Or should I change the code? Is there any advantage to have people do an IRA and then backdoor it into a Roth, if there income is very low -- college student like? Data About Situation Let's pretend he earned $4,000 in 2022. Let's pretend his plus my contributions for IRA or Roth could total $4,000 before taxes are due for 2022 (4/18/2023). Should he contribute directly to Roth? ...
by Rob Relyea
Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info
Replies: 48
Views: 5652

Re: bogle.tools/portfolio - tool to help collect and format Portfolio Review info

I've created a thread devoted to getting more CSV file formats: help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

[Link fixed by admin LadyGeek]

Hasn't really helped people's engagement with helping, yet, though! (Please chime in on that thread, or this one, to say "yes, like this idea, but I don't have any more CSV files to contribute" or "I don't want to contribute cause I think you seem like an evil hacker" or whatever...)

Update: getting help/traction for more CSV file formats now...keep it going - thanks!
by Rob Relyea
Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:47 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians
Replies: 18
Views: 2108

bogle.tools/portfolio - help others with more CSV File Format examples from different Custodians

I'm trying to add support to bogle.tools/portfolio to help import as many CSV file formats from different custodians as possible. This will make it easier for people creating Portfolio Review posts. ( forum post about tool ) Currently Support Importing 8 different file types (updated 3/8/2023) Custodian Importable File Type Example File Github Issue # ================ ========== ========= ================= ============== Ameriprise Yes CSV Ameriprise-*.csv ETrade Yes CSV etrade*.csv Fidelity Yes CSV fidelity.csv Merrill Edge Yes CSV merrillEdge.csv Morgan Stanley Yes XLSX not published Public.com No CSV not published 78 - closed as Not Planned Raymond-James Not yet ??? need help getting! <=============== Schwab Yes CSV schawb.csv TD Ameritr...
by Rob Relyea
Sun Feb 19, 2023 7:50 am
Forum: Personal Investments
Topic: Overall assessment of porfolio
Replies: 15
Views: 1599

Re: Overall assessment of porfolio

pizzy wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:38 am Also, change the percentages to % of portfolio, not % of account.
To help people create portfolio review posts with the recommended format, I’ve built https://bogle.tools/portfolio
On the retirement assets page (https://bogle.tools/portfolio/retirement-assets) it includes support for importing fidelity account info from a CSV file you can download from fidelity.com.

(Also supports Schwab and vanguard CSV files or Morgan Stanley XLSX files)

That should help you create the format that people are used to seeing. Please reach out to me via private message if you have feedback or questions on how to do that.