Snapshots

Overview

Snapshots are a list of dates for which you want the valuations, asset allocations, and total net-worth to be calculated. This depends on the granularity you want to have on the time scale. For example you may want to track your investments on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. Or you may want a combination, such as annually for the past 10 years and monthly for the past 12 months. You may decide to use the first or the last day of each period, such as the first day of each month, or the last day of each month, or any other day.

Whatever snapshots you have decided to use, you will have to provide a list of valid dates in the YYYY-MM-DD format as defined by ISO 8601.

For example if you have decided to track your investment on a quarterly basis using the prices on the last day of each quarter, you would have to provide the following dates for the year 2025: 2025-03-31, 2025-06-30, 2025-09-30, 2025-12-31. You will have to keep adding new snapshots as the times passes. Also you may decide to remove old snapshots after some time to declutter the reports.

The more snapshots there are, the more information you will see in the report, and the more effort this will take. Prices for each asset have to be provided for each snapshots you use, as the program is not yet able to retrieve asset prices and exchange rates automatically.

Examples

Here is how the demo snapshots are defined in the example files.

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| ID         |
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| 2023-12-31 |
| 2024-03-31 |
| 2024-06-30 |
| 2024-09-30 |
| 2024-12-31 |
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