Sync to Google Calendar
Put your trades, dividends, expirations, earnings and market holidays in Google Calendar.
MyTraderDash can copy the dates on its Calendar calendar into your Google Calendar: trades, dividends, option expirations, journal entries, ex-dividend and earnings dates, market holidays and economic releases. It's one-way: MyTraderDash writes to Google, and nothing you do in Google comes back.
Connect
- Open Calendar.
- In the side panel, find Google Calendar and click Connect Google Calendar.
- Google opens. Choose your Google account and allow MyTraderDash to make its own calendars and manage their events. That's all it can do: it can't see or change your other calendars.
- You come back to Events with the message "Google Calendar connected! Initial sync in progress...". The first sync copies your whole history, so it can take a few minutes.
- When it's done, the panel shows Events synced with a count, and Last sync with a time.
If Google shows an error or you cancel, you come back with "Calendar connection failed" and nothing is set up. Click Connect Google Calendar to try again.
The calendars it creates
MyTraderDash doesn't touch your own calendars. It adds eight of its own, so you can show or hide each kind with its checkbox in Google Calendar's sidebar:
| Calendar | Events |
|---|---|
| MTD: Trades | Every buy and sell, with quantity, price and fees. All history. |
| MTD: Dividends | Dividends received (all history), plus the payments to come for the next 12 months (announced, or expected: see Expected dividends), in US dollars. |
| MTD: Ex-Dividends | Ex-dividend dates since January 1 for stocks you hold, watch or track, plus the ones expected for the next 12 months. |
| MTD: Options | The expiration date of your option trades. All history. |
| MTD: Holidays | Market holidays, this year and next. |
| MTD: Journal | Your journal entries, on their date. All history. |
| MTD: Earnings | Earnings dates this year and ahead, for stocks you hold, watch or track. |
| MTD: Economic | US and Canadian economic releases since January 1. |
All events are all-day and marked "free", so they don't block your schedule.
"Stocks you hold, watch or track" means your open positions, the tickers on your watchlists and your tracked tickers. Track a ticker on the Calendar page to get its earnings and ex-dividend dates.
How often it syncs
- Automatically every 6 hours: new and changed events are copied over. Once a week the sync checks everything from scratch, which also removes events for things you deleted.
- Right away: click Sync Now in the Google Calendar panel on Calendar. This runs a full sync on the spot.
Google Calendar can take a little while to show new events in its app after a sync.
Disconnect
- On Calendar, in the Google Calendar panel, click Disconnect to the right of Sync Now, then confirm.
- The button shows Disconnecting… while MyTraderDash deletes its calendars from Google. It can take up to a minute; you can leave the page, and the panel still shows it running when you come back.
Disconnecting deletes the eight MTD: calendars and their events from your Google account and removes MyTraderDash's access. Your data in MyTraderDash is not touched. Connect again any time to start fresh.
You can also remove access from your Google account settings. The MTD: calendars then stay in Google until you delete them yourself, and MyTraderDash still shows the connection until you disconnect it there too.