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Top menu

All key functions are available for you in the top toolbar – you can find relevant functions structured as menus on the left, or ordered with descriptive icons on the right.

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New

The New menu allows you to manually create something new into the system.

  • New report generates a new report from the Report window.

  • New contact creates a new contact in the Contact window

  • New portfolio creates a new portfolio in the Portfolio window

  • New security creates a new security in the Security window

  • New transaction creates a new transaction in the Transaction window (choose the security type of the transaction from the menu - the available security types are listed in the order defined in Preferences - Security types)

  • New trade order creates a new trade order in the Trade order window (choose the security type of the trade order from the menu - the available security types are listed in the order defined in Preferences - Security types)

  • New corporate action creates a new corporate action in the Corporate action window

  • New contract creates a new contract in the Contract window

Tools

The Tools menu allows you to launch standard or custom processes of general nature installed to your FA through FA AppStore.

Update

The Update menu allows you to recalculate the portfolio report data of the selected portfolio or all portfolios, or show the status of ongoing report recalculations. Every time you click an option from the Update menu, you get notified with a pop up indicating which option was clicked.

Functionality related to market data connections (uploading market prices from an external source)

This menu is visible only if the usage of an external market price source is enabled in your FA through a market data connector.

The Market data connector menu items allow you to fetch update codes and prices on your "Active" securities through your market data connector. Getting market prices will always trigger a report recalculation to update the effect of the new market prices to your portfolios. The report recalculation will affect all portfolios that contain the securities that receive a new price, and start from the earliest market price received.

  • Get missing update codes - Uploads missing update codes from the set external price source. The update codes found from the external price source are saved in Security information to the corresponding Update code field. The update codes are searched and saved for all securities that are "Active", have an ISIN code defined and don't yet have an update code: the update codes found from the external price source are set to the correct security based on the security's ISIN code. Notice, that for example currencies don't have valid ISIN codes, and the external update codes for these securities have to be searched manually.

  • Get market prices - Fetches market prices for "Active" securities, for which a corresponding update code is defined (i.e. if market data connection is enabled for Update code 2 / Close 2, prices are fetched only for securities that have the Update code 2 defined).

    • Get market prices for past 7 days - Fetches all prices for the past 7 days, updating existing market prices*.

    • Get market prices for past 30 days - Fetches all prices for the past 30 days, updating existing market prices*.

    • Get market prices for past 365 days - Fetches all prices for the past 365 days, updating existing market prices*.

    • Get missing prices from [date] - Fetches all prices starting from the configured Earliest market price date, updating existing market prices*.

    • Get missing market prices - Fetches market prices for each security from the latest existing market price onward. This option goes through all securities with a corresponding update code one-by-one, determines per each security the latest available market price's date, and fetches new prices for that security from that date onward. If a security doesn't have existing prices, market prices are fetched from the configured Earliest market price date onward. Depending on your existing market price history, prices might be fetched for different time periods for different securities, depending what their latest available observation is - this option allows you to fetch "prices that are newer than the newest observation already stored".

* Updating existing market prices means that if a market price entry already exists for the same date for the same security, fetching the price again from the connector will update the market price in the relevant close field. The system will only update market price entries it receives from the connector. All other existing market price entries remain untouched.

Example: you have an existing price for 2.1.2019 with entries in the Manual and Close 2 fields. You fetch the market price again for a period that includes this date, from a market data connector linked to Update code 2 / Close 2. As a result, the value in the Close 2 field will be updated with the new value received from the connector, while the value in the Manual field will remain untouched.

Functionality relates to revaluating securities

This menu is visible only if your user role has a permission to revaluate securities.

The Revaluate all securities menu items allow you to recalculate the discount factors for a specific time period on all your securities with the base type DISCOUNT and other relevant information. Discount factors on a security are never calculated before the beginning of the position or after the maturity date, and all calculations are done until yesterday. Revaluating securities will always trigger a report recalculation to update the effect of the new values to your portfolios - report recalculation will affect all portfolios that contain the securities that receive a new valuation. More details on the options available in the menu through Valuation of forward cashflows.

Import

The Import menu allows you to import data into the system: select the data you want to import and import your file in the Import window.

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