Keeping track of finances is crucial—whether for analyzing past decisions, tracking progress, or ensuring compliance. A journal provides clarity and control over investments, making decision-making seamless.
Understanding this need, we built Journal by Dhan, a powerful tool for traders and investors to manage reports, track portfolios, and analyze performance.
What is Journal by Dhan?
Keeping track of finances is crucial—whether for analyzing past decisions, tracking progress, or ensuring compliance. A journal provides clarity and control over investments, making decision-making seamless.
Reports play a crucial role in every trader and investor’s journey. They provide clarity on portfolio performance, assist in making data-driven decisions, and simplify tax filings by consolidating critical information.
Additionally, reports help track profits and losses, ensuring transparency and compliance. Journal by Dhan addresses all these needs efficiently and effectively.
How to Access Journal by Dhan
For now, Journal can be accessed via Dhan Web. Here’s how you can find it:
- Click on your Profile in the top-right corner and select Journal by Dhan from the dropdown menu.
- Alternatively, go to My Profile and click on Journal by Dhan.
- You can also navigate to the Money Section and select Journal by Dhan there.
Key Features of Journal by Dhan
Journal, especially when it comes to trading should be as detailed as possible. That’s why we have build the most comprehensive journal experience where you can find all statements, reports and insights for all your trades.
1. Portfolio Overview
Journal provides a real-time snapshot of your portfolio, displaying the market value of your holdings, total investments, and overall returns. Unlike most back-office platforms, Journal updates in real-time during market hours.
2. Holding Details
Dive deeper into your investments with detailed information on each holding, including quantity, average buy price, current value, and profit/loss. This enables real-time tracking and performance evaluation.
3. Past Trades
Get a consolidated view of all your buy and sell transactions across segments and stock exchanges. Having all trade details in one place simplifies evaluation and ensures complete transparency.
4. Statements & Reports
Journal provides a comprehensive suite of reports to help organize and analyze trading activity:
Ledger
- Tracks all financial transactions, including deposits, withdrawals, transfers, and trade executions.
- Helps monitor account balance movements and understand fund inflows/outflows.
- MTF funding entries display the net amount funded after deducting cash collateral.
- Note: The ledger is not for comparing P&L unless there are no open positions.
Contract Note
- A digitally signed record of every trade executed, including stock name, trade price, quantity, brokerage fees, and more.
- Available up to T-1.
Fund Summary
- Provides an overview of fund deposits, withdrawals, and balances.
- Helps track fund movements over time.
Realized Profit & Loss
- Calculates the profit or loss for exited positions.
- Shows gross P&L, excluding brokerage, taxes, and transaction fees.
Profit & Loss Report
- Provides an overall view of your realized and unrealized profits and losses across all trades.
- Includes segmented reports for Equity, F&O, Currency, and Commodity.
- Note: Open positions may lead to minor calculation differences compared to Dhan’s Web/App.
Tax Report
- A detailed breakdown of all transactions to assist with tax filing.
- Evaluates taxable income, capital gains, and other financial details.
- For holdings still in the portfolio, it will be marked as Open Holding instead of a specific date.
Holding Summary
- Summarizes all holdings, including Free, Locked-in, Safekeep, MTF Pledge, Margin Pledge, and CUSA Pledge quantities.
- Displays the closing price for each, enabling quick valuation assessments.
Global Transactions
- Provides a comprehensive record of all transactions, including bill numbers, security-wise details, and associated charges.
5. Account Details
Users can easily access all account-related information, including Demat account details & personal information, in one place.
6. My Documents
All critical documents, such as KYC forms, PAN card details, CMR, and more, are securely stored in Journal. This eliminates the hassle of searching for important documents, ensuring easy access whenever required.
The Future of Journal by Dhan
This is just the beginning! We are committed to making Journal the ultimate reporting and analytics platform for traders and investors. With time, we plan to introduce even more features to enhance your financial journey. Here are a few things that are upcoming:
- Equity Curve for visual trade analysis.
- Mutual Fund Reports for deeper investment insights.
- KYC on Journal to streamline account management.
With Journal by Dhan, you get complete transparency, robust reporting, and powerful analytics—all under one roof. Stay ahead in your trading and investing journey with Dhan!
To read more in detail about this and more new features on Dhan, click here.
