On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Harris <mharris...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> In the Language manual, you say a Price directive is synthesized when a
> posting has a cost or price. But I get the "A valid price for HOUSE/USD
> could not be found" warning with
>
> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD}
> Liabilities:Mortgage -100000.00 USD
>
>
This does not create a price directive, that's the problem.
>
> and
>
> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD} @ 100000.00 USD
> Liabilities:Mortgage -100000.00 USD
>
>
Same here.
However, if you added the implicit_prices plugin, it will generate a price
directive based on the "@ 100000.00 USD" and you'd be fine.
but not
>
> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD}
> Liabilities:Mortgage -100000.00 USD
> 2005-05-24 price HOUSE 1000000.00 USD
>
>
This works because you provide an explicit price directive.
>
> What am I doing wrong? A short example in the Cookbook would be helpful.
>
Have you tried debugging using "bean-query <file> print" ?
This is a way you can print all the interpreted directives and see if a
Price directive is present or not.
>
>
> On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:40:47 PM UTC-7, Martin Blais wrote:
>>
>> Matthew: This is not a bug, but rather a choice I made a while ago that
>> instead of silently ignoring the unrealized gains if you didn't provide
>> some price information, to warn about it instead:
>> https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/src/python/bea
>> ncount/plugins/unrealized.py?fileviewer=file-view-default#
>> unrealized.py-89
>>
>> If you prefer I could simply ignore the error here and skip the addition
>> of an unrealized gain. Let me know if you think this is sensible.
>> (Personally I think it's more sensible for you to provide an estimate price
>> value for your home, every year, based on comparables.)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Jason Chu <xen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I had to use the add_implicit_prices plugin (
>>> https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/5e2dcbfc81b15cfba
>>> a9d743ee87d8f4f26eaf0cb/src/python/beancount/plugins/
>>> implicit_prices.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default) to turn
>>> entries like these into prices.
>>>
>>
>> This will work too.
>> Unless you have some really tight and automated way to create your price
>> entries, this should probably be welcome in everyone's file (I'm using it).
>>
>> Note: If you do this, make sure you put the implicit_prices plugin
>> _before_ the unrealized_gains one, so it creates the price directives
>> before the check from the unrealized gains plugin.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>>
>>
>>
>> You should try out my unrealized_periodic plugin (
>>> https://github.com/xentac/beancount-plugins-xentac). Instead of a
>>> single transaction, I create monthly transactions tracking gains over
>>> time. It uses the same calculation code, it's just an extension to remove
>>> the old unrealized amount and add the new unrealized amount in the same
>>> transaction each month. I like it because it better represents gains over
>>> time. Ideally it would update gains every time the price changes, but that
>>> leads to too many transactions and the plugin goes really slowly.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:11 PM Matthew Harris <mharr...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Martin. I know you claimed to have eliminated a bunch of "a valid
>>>> price for … could not be found" errors from the unrealized gains plugin a
>>>> year ago, but I'm still getting a bunch of them in my file. It's so many
>>>> that I'm not even sure where to begin.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, here's one that should be easy. It's not my common case, but it's
>>>> easy to isolate because I only have one transaction with it:
>>>>
>>>> ;; -*- mode: org; mode: beancount; coding: utf-8 -*-
>>>>
>>>> option "operating_currency" "USD"
>>>> plugin "beancount.plugins.auto_accounts"
>>>> plugin "beancount.plugins.unrealized" "Unrealized"
>>>>
>>>> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
>>>> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD}
>>>> Liabilities:Mortgage
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I run bean-query on this file, I get
>>>>
>>>> <unrealized_gains>:0: A valid price for HOUSE/USD could not be
>>>> found
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am I expressing this transaction correctly, and is it a bug that I'm
>>>> still seeing this error?
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