To better understand how inventories work, I highly recommend reading
http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/booking. It explains why you have to select
lots at all and the various booking methods you probably want to use.
In addition, yegle's example is missing the PnL/CapitalGains account, so
you'll actually return the wrong amount to your Roth account. The doc
explains why.
I have converted nearly every one of my sales to using the {} ambiguous
matching syntax and I feel so much better for it.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:08 PM yegle <[email protected]> wrote:
> When you sell your holdings, you should specify which lot you want to sell
> in the curly bracket. In your case, you should write the following.
>
>
>
> 2017-03-27 * "sell 20 shares of VGHCX"
> Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Roth:VGHCX -20 VGHCX{200
> USD} @205 USD
> Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Roth
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Andrew Sail <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I'm receiving a strange error when trying to sell shares of an investment
> fund that I have previously purchased. Below is an example from my ledger,
> replaced with dummy data. In this example, I'm trying to buy 20 shares of
> the fund at $200/each, funded from my main account, and then sell them at
> $205/each (the sale is obviously just for the sake of my understanding of
> how to use the tool).
>
> 2017-01-01 * "buy 20 shares of VGHCX"
> Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Roth:VGHCX 20 VGHCX{200 USD}
> Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Roth -4000 USD
>
> 2017-03-27 * "sell 20 shares of VGHCX"
> Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Roth:VGHCX -20 VGHCX{205
> USD}
> Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Roth
>
> 2017-01-01 price VGHCX 200.00 USD
> 2017-03-27 price VGHCX 205.00 USD
>
> The error I receive is below.
>
> $ bean-check ledger.beancount
> /path/to/ledger.beancount:74: No position matches
> "Posting(account='Assets:Investments:Fidelity:Roth:VGHCX', units=-20 VGHCX,
> cost=CostSpec(number_per=Decimal('205.00'), number_total=None,
> currency='USD', date=None, label=None, merge=False), price=None, flag=None,
> meta={'filename': '/path/to/ledger.beancount', 'lineno': 75})" against
> balance (20 VGHCX {200 USD, 2017-01-01})
>
> This leads me to asking a few questions:
> 1) The obvious; what am I doing wrong? I simply want to sell the 20 shares
> of VGHCX at $205/share that I own and return the funds as USD to my main
> account (cash).
> 2) If I remove the sale, only my principal shows on my ledger, my
> investment's growth is not shown as a part of my net worth; is this
> correct, or is there a deeper rooted issue?
> 3) Should reporting price in my ledger impact my net worth and if not,
> where in bean-web or fava should I be able to refer to my growth for
> further analysis?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help!
>
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