3.4. IPO Allotments
Shares allotted to you in an IPO arrive in your demat account without a trade, so your tradebook never shows them being bought. If you sell them later, the sale is there and the purchase is missing, and the stock appears among your residual fix-ups.
The IPO Allotments screen is where you record the allotment. In our small tradebook, the investor was allotted 214 shares of BAJAJHFL, Bajaj Housing Finance, in its IPO, and sold them on 16 September 2024 at ₹165.
Open Load → IPO Allotments and fill in Add allotment:
| Field | BAJAJHFL |
|---|---|
| Symbol | BAJAJHFL |
| Exchange | NSE |
| Demat (Broker) | Zerodha |
| Allotment Date | 12 September 2024 |
| Quantity (shares) | 214 |
| Allotment Price (₹) | 70 |
| Note | IPO allotment, 1 lot |
As you type the symbol, a list of matching stocks appears; choose BAJAJHFL from it. Demat (Broker) is the broker whose demat account received the shares.
Once saved, the allotment becomes the first tranche of the position, and the lane balances. BAJAJHFL moves to Past Positions as a closed position: 214 shares bought at ₹70 and sold at ₹165, a realised gain of ₹20,330.
That was the last lane. Residual Fix-ups now reads Your tradebooks reconcile cleanly — nothing to fix up.
Below the form, Existing opening trades lists every allotment you have recorded. It lists the opening balances from the previous section too, since Tradestory keeps both kinds the same way.
The next two events never show up as fix-ups at all. Tradestory finds them on its own, and needs only your answer. Let's start with buybacks.