r/investing Mar 20, 01:20 PM
After trying several portfolio trackers, I still couldn't find one that benchmarked performance properly I've been investing for a few years across ETFs, stocks, and some crypto, and one thing I kept struggling with was tracking performance properly across different currencies.
Most portfolio trackers I tried were either very US-focused, didn't handle EUR/USD well, or relied heavily on broker syncing, which I personally prefer to avoid.
While trying to solve it for myself, a few things became obvious:
A lot of return calculations don't really reflect deposit timing, which makes portfolio performance hard to interpret
Benchmarking only makes sense if you compare over the exact same period you were invested
Currency movements often explain more of the result than many people realize, especially with US-heavy portfolios
I ended up building a small tracker for myself (TrackinV) mainly to solve the multi-currency side of it - free to use if anyone is curious.
submitted by /u/Happy-Profession-256
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