# Create New Portfolio

Portfolios are simply sets of stocks which are assigned a unique name.

Create a new portfolio and assign its name
Select `File->New`, and assign a unique name to the new portfolio.

Add stocks to the portfolio

- select `Edit->Portfolio`
- click the `Add` button and enter data
- tooltips describe valid entries for each field
- note that `Quantity` and `Average Price` may be left blank

Example of a valid entry of a new stock :

The Yahoo symbol for this stock is `CTR.TO`. Note that the ticker field is input as `CTR`. StocksMonitor adds the correct suffix internally (`.TO`, in this case, corresponding to the Toronto Stock Exchange), using the entry in the Exchange field. Thus, the user does not need to remember these suffixes.

Average Price

Example :

- 100 shares are bought at 5.00
- another 100 shares are bought at 10.00

Then the full 200 shares has an average price of 7.50.

Save your work

- select `File->Save` to save the edits
- whenever there are unsaved edits, a * character appears at the end of the Portfolio name