The 'Historic Earnings' section helps you keep a clear overview of your investments' performance over a specific period, both on overall account level and for individual instruments. Following article gives you a detailed description of the data this section offers:
1 - Date Slider
Use the date slider to set the horizon for which you want to display your earnings. Click the start date or the end date to bring up the calendar where you can set a specific date.
2 - Earnings Bar
The earnings bar displays four key numbers for the period selected:
- Dividends and interest - the sum of all dividends and interest received
- Costs - the sum of all costs incurred during the period. This includes costs such as commissions, management fees that are debited from your own account, and internal costs related to mutual funds and ETFs.
- Earnings - the total earnings, either positive or negative, for your account(s) during the period. The earnings include both realised and unrealised gains/losses. This means that it includes earnings for instruments that were either traded or held during the period, including dividends and costs. Note that any earnings incurred outside of the chosen period are not included.
- % Return - the time-weighted return in the period. Time-weighted returns adjust for deposits, withdrawals and security transfers, assigning each day an equal weight. This means that all daily returns are weighted equally, irrespective of the account size at the time.
3 - Account value chart
This displays the account value on each day. The Account value is equal to the sum of the cash balance and position values each day.
4 - % Return chart
This displays the cumulative time-weighted return in the period, adjusted for deposits, withdrawals and security transfers, assigning each day an equal weight. This means that all daily returns are weighted equally, irrespective of the account size at the time.
The chart allows you to select your own benchmark based on a list of individual countries' indices.
5 - Earnings breakdown
The earnings breakdown displays four key factors for the period selected via the date slider.
- Instrument - All instruments held or traded in the period will be displayed in the grid (including instruments in which you have sold your investments).
- Dividends and interest - the sum of all dividends and interest received in the period, for the instrument.
- Costs - the sum of all costs incurred in the period, for the instrument. This includes costs such as commissions, management fees that are debited from your own account, and internal costs related to mutual funds and ETFs.
- Earnings - the total earnings, either positive or negative, for the instrument during the period. The earnings include both realised and unrealised gains/losses. Earnings for an instrument are equal to: the value of the position at the end of the period + all cash bookings in the period (dividends, traded values, commissions etc) - the value of the position at the end of the period.
- ividends and costs are included in the earnings. Note that any gains incurred outside of the chosen period are not included.
- % Return - The time-weighted return during the period. Time-weighted returns adjust for deposits, withdrawals and security transfers, and assign each day an equal weight. This means that all daily returns are weighted equally, irrespective of the account size at the time.