Thanks. Didn't get it yet but I have few questions.
1) After reading the doc it seems to me that I should specify which lots I
sold by using {} syntax, am I right? When I sell a part of my position, my
bank does not let me to select which lots I'll sell. So I have difficulty
in understanding how to apply the lot's price to the transaction. Based on
my bank's report I only know that I sold 20 shares. And to clarify I sold
only a part of my total position.
2) Is the booking method (strict, fifo, lifo, average, none) somehow
relevant in this and if so, what implications each one has? Since I can't
manage which lots I sell from by bank, to me it seems like it would make
sense to use average method. Or is this completely unrelated to my problem?
3) In the example transaction you gave I don't understand the point of the
Income row. I sold 20 shares with price 47.996 EUR, and in return I had to
pay 15 EUR commissions and I got 944.92 EUR to my Cash account. While this
transaction would likely result in capital gain or loss, I don't understand
how I would calculate that when I don't know the prices of lots I sold.
Again I guess this is just a result of my confusion with the first question.
Finally I'm not shorting and this is the first transaction I'm selling this
ETF so afaik the balance should not be negative in any part of the ledger
as seems to be the case in some other threads. Anyway, I'll try to keep
reading and figuring out what I should do.
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