Check wash sales in your Robinhood account (and across every other account you own)
By the Wash-Sale Guardian team · Published 2026-07-14 · Last updated 2026-07-14 · How we check our facts
Robinhood only flags wash sales inside your Robinhood account. Your Fidelity buys, your spouse's Schwab account, and your IRA's auto-invest are invisible to it — but under IRC §1091 the IRS counts them all. Drop your Robinhood CSV into our free checker together with your other brokers' exports and see every cross-account violation and open 30-day danger window — in your browser, nothing uploaded, no signup.
How to export your Robinhood trade history (CSV)
- Log in on the web or app → tap the Account (person) icon.
- Go to Reports and statements → Reports → Generate new report.
- Choose the widest date range available and CSV format.
- Wait — this is Robinhood's big quirk. Reports generate asynchronously and typically take 2–24 hours to arrive. Request the report now, come back when it's ready.
Also note: reports cover roughly a year of history, exclude futures and crypto, and are web-generated only.
Robinhood CSV quirks (what our parser handles for you)
| Quirk | What it looks like | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Options as prose | "NVDA 9/18/2026 Call $500.00" in Description | Must be normalized to a real contract identity or option washes are missed |
| Trans codes | Buy, Sell, BTO, STC, STO, BTC + non-trades (ACH, CDIV, GOLD, SPL…) | Non-trade rows must be skipped visibly; STO/BTC are short legs (different tax rules) |
| Fractional shares | Quantity "10.532" | Partial washes must split to the fractional share |
| Split/receive rows | SPL / REC / CONV codes | Share counts change outside trades — verdicts for those symbols need a warning, not silence |
| ~1-year history | Reports flow limit | Older lots missing → an honest checker suppresses verdicts instead of guessing |
What Robinhood's 1099-B does (and doesn't) include
Robinhood reports wash-sale disallowances in box 1g for identical securities within your Robinhood account only — that's all broker regulations require. Cross-account adjustments are your responsibility on Form 8949 (code W). Robinhood's own wash-sale help page says to consult a tax professional for anything beyond the single-account case; the cross-account trap explainer covers exactly what falls in that gap.
Check it free
Open the checker, drop your Robinhood CSV plus exports from Schwab, Fidelity, IBKR, or E*TRADE, tag each account taxable or IRA, and you'll see violations with dollar amounts, open danger windows with safe dates, and a year-end summary for your CPA. Free; runs in your browser (methodology).
Frequently asked questions
Does Robinhood track wash sales for me?
Only inside your Robinhood account, for identical securities. Robinhood reports those in box 1g of your 1099-B. It cannot see your Schwab, Fidelity, or IRA purchases, so cross-account wash sales never appear anywhere in Robinhood.
How do I export my trade history from Robinhood?
In the app or web: Account (person icon) → Reports and statements → Reports → Generate new report. Pick your date range and CSV format. Generation is asynchronous — the file typically arrives in 2 to 24 hours, so request it before you need it.
Why does my Robinhood 1099-B show huge wash sale disallowed amounts?
Frequent re-buying of the same ticker rolls each disallowed loss into the next lot, so box 1g totals can dwarf your real economics. The deferred amounts usually come back when you exit cleanly — see our wash-sale-loss-disallowed guide — but IRA re-buys never do.
How far back does the Robinhood CSV go?
Roughly one year of activity per report in the current reports flow. If you traded a symbol earlier than your export covers, a good checker should refuse to give verdicts for it rather than guess from partial history.