Choose how TraderSync matches your sales against your purchases when you scale out of a position, and whether profit from partial exits counts while a trade is still open.
- Click the Settings gear at the bottom left of the side navigation.
- Under Data & Trades, click Trades.
- Scroll down to Cost Basis Calculation and click a method:
- Weighted Average: every sale uses the average price of all the trade’s purchases, including ones made after an earlier sale.
- FIFO (first in, first out): each sale is matched against your oldest shares first.
- LIFO (last in, first out): each sale is matched against your newest shares first.
- Optionally, above it, switch Consider Partial Realized Gains on to take into account the profit and loss gained on partial covers of your positions for open trades.
There is no Save button: your choices are saved as soon as you click them. The Average Entry/Exit Price Calculation switch only works with FIFO or LIFO, and is shown off while Weighted Average is selected.
Want the why, with a worked example? See Why does FIFO or LIFO change my daily P&L but not my trade total?.
