Import guides / J.P. Morgan Self-Directed
J.P. Morgan Self-Directed sits inside your Chase login rather than on its own site, which is why the export is easy to miss — it is under the investing section, not the banking one. Each download covers up to a year, so plan on one file per year of history.
Export your transaction history
Start here rather than with the positions file. A list of holdings tells FolioBright what you own today; the transaction history tells it what you paid and when, which is what real cost basis, time-weighted return and money-weighted return are built from.
- Sign in at chase.com.
- Open Investments, then Transactions.
- Set the timeframe and click Filter. A single download covers at most one year.
- Open the Things you can do dropdown.
- Choose CSV and save the file.
- Repeat once per year until you reach your first purchase.
Export your current positions
Optional, and useful mainly as a check: import the transactions first, then compare the share counts FolioBright shows against this file to confirm nothing was missed.
- From Investments, open the Holdings or positions view for the account.
- Use the same Things you can do dropdown to export.
- Useful as a check on share counts once the transactions are in.
What FolioBright reads
The importer matches your header row automatically, so normally you do not have to think about this. These are the columns it looks for in a J.P. Morgan Self-Directed export.
| Column in your export | What FolioBright does with it |
|---|---|
Date | transaction date |
Description | what happened — J.P. Morgan carries the action in the description rather than a separate type column |
Symbol | ticker |
Quantity | shares |
Price | execution price |
Amount | net cash |
Things it handles for you
The action is inside the description. Unlike brokers with a tidy Action column, J.P. Morgan describes the transaction in prose. FolioBright reads buy, sell, dividend, reinvestment and fee out of that text rather than needing a dedicated column.
One year per file means several files. Import them in any order; overlapping ranges are safe because anything already recorded is recognised rather than duplicated.
Dividend reinvestments are booked as income plus a purchase, so your income history and your cost basis both stay right.
Bringing it into FolioBright
- Open FolioBright and choose the account the file belongs to, or create one with Add account.
- Click Import transactions and drop the CSV in.
- Check the column mapping. FolioBright reads the header row and fills it in for you; the preset for this broker is below if you ever need to set it by hand.
- Review the preview. Anything it could not read is listed separately rather than imported quietly.
- Import. Prices, returns and allocation update as soon as it lands.
Other brokerages
Nothing to install
FolioBright reads the file in your browser and stores the result in your own account. There is no brokerage login to hand over, no read-only credential, and no third-party aggregator sitting between you and your holdings.