A Charles Schwab CSV Converter for Portfolio Performance

Converts a Charles Schwab transaction CSV file to a ready-to-import CSV file for Portfolio Performance (PP).

After conversion, this step-by-step guide creates a new portfolio file in PP and imports the converted example CSV.

After importing the converted example CSV

Usage

There are two ways to run this tool: Google Colab or via command-line. The former is for end-users. The later is for python-savvy users and developers.

Usage via Google Colab

Although Google Colab is free, one will need a Google account.

Usage via command-line

Runtime Requirements:

• Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13.
• Pandas

Install this tool in a Python virtual environment:

1. pyenv
2. pyenv-virtualenv

Install runtime libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Command-line options:

python convert.py --help

usage: convert.py [-h] [-p PP_CSV] schwab_csv

Converts a Charles Schwab transaction CSV file to a ready-to-import CSV file for Portfolio
Performance.

positional arguments:
  schwab_csv            Input Charles Schwab CSV file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PP_CSV, --pp_csv PP_CSV
                        Resulting CSV file for Portfolio Performance (default: pp.csv)

Example:

An example Schwab CSV: example.csv. The converted ready-to-import CSV file: example_out.csv.

To replicate this conversion:

python convert.py example.csv -p example_out.csv

Details

Supported transactions:

• "NRA Tax Adj"
• "Credit Interest"
• "NRA Withholding"
• "Short Term Cap Gain"
• "Long Term Cap Gain"
• "Cash Dividend"
• "Buy"
• "Wire Received"
• "Wire Sent"¹ (Thank you, @ipaulo)
• "Sell" (Not verified)

Not-yet-supported transactions:

• ACH deposit and withdrawal

I have actual transactions for the supported transactions. "Sell" is an educated guess; I don't have an actual sale. If you could share actual transactions for not-yet-supported ones, please let me know. Thank you.

Duplicate transactions:

As far as I can test, PP will detect and skip duplicate transactions. So it is safe to import overlapping transactions in the future.

Dates:

If date is in "date1 as of date2" format, "date1" will be used and "as of date2" will be appended to the resulting "Note" column.

License

MIT

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/rlan/convert-csv-schwab2pp/issues/2 ↩