Managing your Cash Balance¶

Like a real account with a brokerage, your StockMarketEye portfolio contains a pool of un-invested funds called the cash balance. In a real brokerage account, these funds are usually held in a money market account or interest bearing account. The “Cash” line of your portfolio (just above the “Total” line), represents this un-invested portion of your portfolio, whether it is acutally in a money market fund or an interest bearing account.

The cash balance of your StockMarketEye portfolio is where the proceeds of sales and dividends are deposited. It is also where funds are deducted when needed for purchase.

Your StockMarketEye portfolio does not have to have a cash balance. If you are managing a virtual portfolio or tracking a real portfolio that does not have a cash portion, you can change the portfolio’s settings to remove the “Cash” line. See the section, Portfolio Settings for more details.

Adding and Removing Cash¶

You can add or remove funds from the cash balance of your StockMarketEye portfolio at any time using the menu: Portfolio -> Add Cash Transaction.

This will open the “Portfolio Cash Transaction” window as shown below.

In this window, you can use one of 6 transaction types for specifying how the funds were added or removed:

1. Cash Incoming
2. Cash Outgoing
3. Interest Incoming
4. Interest Outgoing
5. Other Incoming
6. Other Outgoing

Select a Transaction Date and set the Transaction Amount.

If you want the amount of this transaction to be added/removed from your current cash balance, be sure to check the “Update the cash balance?” option.