Following the recommended steps. I proceeded to add a SELL transaction of my SCHD stocks and added a BUY transaction of my SCHD stocks again (both on the same day of 11 October 2024).
However, after that, I realised that the P&L% and P&L+Div% are the same. This means that StocksCafe did not take into account all the dividends that I have collected so far before the stock split took place.
I also understand from your article that there is this feature called EVENTS. When I went into my EVENTS tab, SCHD was not even listed even though this stock split had been widely known in the investment community months before it took place.
I would like to find out what can be done to remedy the situation.
I have added it. Both the stocksplit and the event to handle it.
(Upstream yet to show the data hence I added manually)
As for this, it is “by design”. Once you perform a sell transaction, the dividends collected before the sell transactions will be shifted into Closed Positions. So, the Current Positions will start afresh.
This make sense for normal sell transactions (that are not due to StockSplit) and I understand can be a little weird in stock split events.
Dear Evan, thank you for updating me about the rationale.
As I have already added the SELL and BUY transactions surrounding this stock split , is there anyway I can undo these transactions, so that I can go back and use your EVENTS function instead? I am more concerned that my SCHD data includes the dividend information.