Support for tracking Stock Options

You’re right! Thanks for spotting that

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Update (2.24.3)

  • All tax presets include capital gains from options.
  • There are two new Tax types - Option open and Option close. Regular Buy & Sell is now renamed to Open (Buy) and Close (Sell) as they now work on short positions too.

As US taxes require costs of options to be rolled into the exercised stock, there will be a separate tax statement to do that soon.

Update (2.24.4)

  • US taxes for options are handled as well, thanks to a new statement - Forward if Opened

Adding options tracking would definitely put Capitally on a totally different category! I’ve been searching around for good tools and have tried quite a few (Snowball, Sharesight, …). None of them can track options except using custom assets. Definitely will be a great selling point!

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Just tried options. Was able to add call buying. How do I add call selling? Don’t see any place for this.

You use the Option transaction for everything related to options.

To sell (or short) you just enter negative quantity.

Update (2.25.4)

  • Properly account for splits (strike price on transaction may be with or without the split applied)
  • Price options using Black-Scholes-Merton model, using US 3M T-Bills index for risk-free rate, 1y of stock volatility and dividend yield
  • Options can be marked as American or European - options on Indexes and Commodities default to EU, all others are US. In the next update, American options will use additional early-execution premium when pricing
  • MWR algorithm is more effective in finding results in tricky cashflows - which are very common in options. There should be much less NaNs displayed for rate of return

Update (2.25.7)

  • Fix handling of multiple options on the same asset
  • Short badge is displayed on shorted lots
  • Margin requirement metric displayed under Market Value tab
  • Margin requirement plotted on the Owned/Owed chart as a dotted line
  • Advanced tracking settings - risk free rate and margin requirements