Fidelity lacks DRIP-excluded gain tracking is a software problem in Finance & Banking. It has a heat score of 55 (demand) and competition score of 48 (existing solutions), creating an opportunity score of 38.2.
Investment platforms like Fidelity don't provide built-in functionality to calculate investment gains excluding dividend reinvestment (DRIP), forcing buy-and-hold investors to manually calculate or use external tools.
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“Money Transfer Fees ### Support guidelines - [X] I've read the [support guidelines](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/blob/main/.github/support.md) - [X] My request is not listed as [a very good idea, but unfortunately...](https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/about-firefly-iii/what-its-not/) - [X] I've used [the search](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues?q=is%3Aissue) and this has not been discussed before. ### Description It would be great if upon doing a transfe”
“Buy-and-hold investors: how do you track gains excluding DRIP? Any CSV/Python workaround? I’m a buy-and-hold investor in VTI. I invest about $1k–$2k monthly and have DRIP enabled. I’ve been doing this for ~3–4 years. Fidelity shows a gain (~$61k), but that includes reinvested dividends. What I want is the true gain based only on my manual contributions, excluding DRIP purchases. To my knowledge, Fidelity doesn't have an option for this. I wanted to check with community on how do you calculate ga”
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