getting-started

Your first Institutional Report (Monthly P&L PDF for last month)

Generate a branded PDF in under 10 seconds for CPA / LP / lender handoff

5 min · beginner

What you'll have when finished

  • Have one Monthly P&L PDF downloaded
  • Know how to re-download from History instead of regenerating
  • Understand reports reconcile with Risk Overview

Before you start

  • Empty period (no trades) generates an empty PDF — that is correct behavior, not a bug
  • Delete is irreversible; PDF must be regenerated
  • Generation can take 30+ sec on high-volume 12-month reports

Walkthrough

  1. Open Institutional Reports

    Elite → Institutional Reports. 4 template cards across the top: Monthly P&L, Quarterly, Year-End Tax, Custom Range.

    Success criteria: Template picker visible with 4 cards

  2. Pick Monthly P&L

    Click the Monthly P&L card. It highlights with an indigo check mark. Period inputs (Month + Year) appear below.

    Success criteria: Monthly P&L card has check mark AND Month + Year inputs visible

  3. Pick last month + this year

    Month dropdown = last completed month (current month is still ongoing, so its P&L is incomplete). Year dropdown = current year. Example: if today is May, pick April + current year.

    Success criteria: Month + Year selections match last month / this year

  4. Click Generate

    Click the indigo Generate Monthly P&L button. Spinner shows "Generating PDF...". Within 1-5 seconds, success banner appears with reportId, file size, and elapsed ms. PDF auto-downloads to your browser.

    Success criteria: Success banner shows AND PDF downloaded to your Downloads folder

  5. Open the PDF + review the disclosures block

    Open the downloaded PDF. Scroll to the end — the disclosures block shows data source (your connected exchanges), data freshness (when ledger was last refreshed), calculation methodology. This is what CPAs and LPs need to audit your numbers.

    Success criteria: You can see the disclosures block at the end of the PDF

  6. Check History tab

    Scroll down to "Recent reports". Your newly-generated PDF appears with timestamp, template, file size, and re-download + delete buttons. Re-download is free and instant — no regeneration needed.

    Success criteria: Your PDF appears in History with download + delete actions

  7. Cross-check against Risk Overview

    Open Risk Overview (Intelligence menu). Filter to the same monthly period. Realized P&L should match the headline number on the PDF EXACTLY — both come from the same source-of-truth lot ledger. If they do not match, something is wrong with one or the other; investigate.

    Success criteria: Risk Overview realized P&L for the month matches the PDF headline

What's next

You have one CPA-ready PDF. For year-end tax filing: generate Year-End Tax template in January for the previous tax year. Pair with Tax Report (Intelligence menu) CSV for the per-lot 8949 line items. For LP distributions / lender qualifying: use Custom Range to match their reporting cycle exactly.