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Track your CommSec portfolio with Sharesight

by Stephanie Stefanovic, Content Manager, Sharesight | Sep 11th 2020

With the support for more than 200 global brokers and over 240,000 stocks, ETFs and mutual/managed funds, it’s now easier than ever to track your investments with Sharesight.

Investors trading with Australian broker CommSec can automatically import historical and ongoing trades to their Sharesight portfolio, giving them access to Sharesight’s award-winning performance, dividend tracking and tax reporting features.

Import trades from CommSec to Sharesight

Who is Commsec?

Established in 1995, Commonwealth Securities, or CommSec, is Australia’s largest online trading platform. Operated by Commonwealth Bank, CommSec offers brokerage fees from $10 per trade with access to a range of share markets supported by Sharesight, including the ASX, NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE and TYO. The platform also offers market news, research, instructional webinars and a range of other educational resources for investors.

Import your CommSec trades to Sharesight

Sharesight allows you to bulk import your trading history by uploading a spreadsheet file of trades. You can also automatically import ongoing trades through the Trade Confirmation Emails feature. Keep reading to learn more.

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How to import historical trades through a spreadsheet

It's easy to import your historical trades to Sharesight by uploading a spreadsheet file of trades from your CommSec trading account.

Import spreadsheet of trades from CommSec

As long as the file contains all the required information, you can upload it to Sharesight and quickly bulk import the trading data you wish to see in your portfolio.

Use Sharesight’s Trade Confirmation Emails feature for ongoing trades

Sharesight’s Trade Confirmation Emails feature is an effortless way to import historical and ongoing trades to a Sharesight portfolio. By simply having your broker’s trade confirmations forwarded to your unique Sharesight email address, all of your trades are synced to your portfolio, inclusive of corporate actions such as dividends, mergers and stock splits, with no effort on your part.

Get started with Sharesight

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Sign up for a FREE Sharesight account and get started tracking your investment performance (and tax) today.

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