The built-in importer may well not. I recall an older email thread in which Martin mentioned merging in bits of ledgerhub into the main project, but it may be the case that the ofx_invest importer wasn't part of that.
I'd love to take a look at anything you are willing to share. I'm not a programmer, let alone a python programmer, so I'm mainly working from examples. Thanks! -JH On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:32 PM Red S <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the built-in ofx importer handle investment transactions (eg: > buy/sell stocks/funds)? > > I built my own generic investment ofx importer on top of ofxparse, and > I've been using it for years. It works for a number of brokerages including > the case you describe, vanguard with multiple real accounts. I've been > wanting to share my ofx importers, and will do so shortly. > > It solves a number of issues including: > - stock and fund transactions including buys and sells (lot matching, > however, is left to the user) > - special handling of money market transactions (price conversions) > - customizable for each brokerage house, to account for ofx differences, > filenames, etc. > - produces balance assertions > - handles commissions, fees > - produces price entries (many brokerages include ticker prices of all > active tickers in the account on the date of download, in addition to of > course, the prices gleaned from transactions) > - available cash computation > - cusip to fund matching (some brokerage houses identify funds only by > cusip or other custom tickers in the ofx) > > > > On Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 7:16:04 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hello, all. >> >> Can anyone point in the direction of some examples on setting up the >> built-in OFX importer for investment accounts? I have it working fine for >> regular bank accounts (where there is one account number), but I'm not sure >> how to configure it for accounts that have multiple "subaccounts." For >> example, when I export transactions from Vanguard, I'm exporting for 5 real >> accounts (4 IRA accounts and one brokerage account) and a larger number of >> funds under each one. >> >> In looking through the documentation and old email threads, I can't tell >> if this is something one accomplishes in the ".config" file using the >> built-in importer or if I need to write a custom importer for investment >> accounts. Old emails reference a ofx_invest importer that was part of >> ledgerhub, but I know that is discontinued. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -JH >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/JtE9JLQY3Og/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/54d2b408-e27f-44bb-a439-0eaf093646bf%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/54d2b408-e27f-44bb-a439-0eaf093646bf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAKQSG-D8vZbhc0EpdeXa5np1TOKbs%2BBKCvyOdt9BfyfxRSC4yw%40mail.gmail.com.
