Import & sync BOQ Trading trades

Connect your BOQ Trading account for your buy and sell trades to be automatically populated in Sharesight each time you trade and to import your trading history from BOQ Trading with Sharesight Connect.

Note: This connection only shares your trade history and ongoing investment data with Sharesight none of your personal account data is shared.

1 – Login to or sign up for Sharesight.

2 - On the ‘Let’s get you started with Sharesight’ page, select the ‘Import from a Broker’ tile.

3 - Click on the ‘BOQ Trading’ tile on the ‘Import from a Broker’ page.

4 - From the ‘Import and sync your BOQ Trading trade account with Sharesight’ window, select the BOQ Trading link. This will load BOQ Trading.

5 - Sign in to your BOQ Trading account.

6 - In BOQ Trading select the ‘Account’ dropdown menu.

7 - Select ‘Tax & Portfolio Reporting’.

8 - Click ‘Register’.

9 - From the ‘Authority to share, trade data with Sharesight’ choose to share your historical trade data by selecting ‘Send my entire trading history to Sharesight’. If you would like your historical trade data in Sharesight.

If this is selected it will download all buys and sell made by BOQ Trading since you have held the trading account.

Note: If you have changed brokers and transferred the holdings to BOQ Trading these trades will not be imported into Sharesight. Due to a chess transfer.

10 - Select ‘I authorise BOQ Trading to share data relating to my trading stockbroking account with Sharesight.

11 - Click the ‘Proceed’ button.

12 - This will launch Sharesight, sign in or sign up for a Sharesight account.

13 - Select which portfolio you would like your BOQ Trading holdings and trade to be imported to. You can choose an existing portfolio or create a new portfolio.

14 - Select ‘I agree to allow BOQ Trading to access this portfolio via Sharesight Connect’.

15 - Click ‘Finish’.

16 - Once the trades are saved, your Sharesight portfolio will be populated and the Portfolio Overview Page will load.

Your holdings will be calculated by Sharesight’s performance calculation methodology which is a money-weighted return methodology, meaning the investment performance takes account of the size and timing of cash flows.

Sharesight will automatically create dividends and corporate actions for the holdings you have imported.

With the BOQ Trading Sharesight connect any time you trade with BOQ your trade will automatically be populated with Sharesight.

The BOQ Trading and Sharesight connect can be revoke at any time. It needs to revoked in both BOQ Trading website & Sharesight

Now that you have populated your portfolio we recommend you:

1 - Review the trades imported:

a - Handle any negative holdings - Holdings with less buy trades than sell trades (occurs when transferred stocks from another broker).

b - Check fractional share trades for rounding differences.

c - Exchange rates are generated by Sharesight using the end of day exchange rate, these can be edited within the trade.

d - Handle any non automated corporate actions, such as mergers etc.

2 - Verify and confirm automatically generated data (dividends and corporate actions).

3 - Share access of your portfolio with your accountant.

4 - Add your other investments to Sharesight.

5 - Use Sharesight to help you complete your tax return.

Note: This connection only share your trade history and ongoing investment data with Sharesight none of your personal account data is shared.

Last modified on August 19, 2021 UTC