Our support team has created a guide for importing your trading history to go alongside our integration with Interactive Brokers (see here for the set up).
Timestamps are below for key features on the guide:
Creating & downloading the trades flex query 0:30 - 2:36
Organising the CSV file 2:36 - 7:06
Workings for FX rates to import 4:44 - 6:06
Importing your file 6:06 - 8:20
The IB Flex Query will only report on the last 12 months of transactions. Is there any further instruction on a manual import, incorporating exchange variations on US Shares?
I have most, if not all, of my trade emails on two accounts going back about three years. Unfortunately, the reports do not present the information similar to the Flex Query, so the manual input is somewhat confusing.
This looks to be a limitation of the FlexQuery. If you have the cost base information for your holdings outside of the 12 month period, you could enter these in manually as opening balance trades into Sharesight.
Seems as though the import integration with IB relies on a whole heap of manual adjustments by the user. Mitigates the benefit of using Sharesight?