TD Ameritrade Positions CSV Instructions

How to retrieve the Positions CSV from thinkorswim.

This may seem like many steps, but should only take 5 minutes. It's a one-time thing just to add your account to Wingman, and then you can set your thinkorswim layout settings back to what you prefer.

Importing transactions day-to-day going forward is another CSV, which has its own instructions. Fortunately that one is much easier to configure - just the defaults!

1. Open thinkorswim Desktop software. The TD Ameritrade website doesn't contain sufficient information to use that CSV.

2. Go to "Monitor" tab — "Activity and Positions"

3. Make sure you're in "New Layout", not Old.

4.

a. Uncheck "Show groups" and make sure "Group symbols by" is None

b. Then click "Spreads..." in that same menu above. Uncheck all of the Spreads in the popup window:

This is the popup window for "Spreads..."

5. "Arrange positions" by "Instrument"

6. Almost there! Click the little gear icon in order to select the columns that are needed to construct your positions in Wingman.

7. Add the required columns in the red box. You can have any additional columns you want and the order doesn't matter. Then select "OK".

8. You made it! Now just "Export to file...". You can save this to any folder you would like on your computer. This is the file you'll upload to Wingman in the account creation form.