thanks good idea – so the second entry with negative amounts is also 
balanced against Equity:Opening-Balances?

[email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 23. März 2021 um 17:24:40 UTC+1:

> Beancount doesn't currently support transactions that self-reduce. So you 
> need to at least split the buys and sells. Should be no problem with having 
> those be grouped together though.
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 09:12 david e <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to open an account and immediately add existing lots that go 
>> back in time to my journal file.
>>
>> for small positions with only one entry I simply did the following:
>>
>> 2021-03-23 * "Open XYZ"
>>   Assets:Crypto:WalletB:XYZ 3000.00 XYZ {0.03 USD, 2018-11-11}
>>   Income:Crypto:Airdrop
>>
>> but what about having several buy and sell transactions?
>>
>> ideally, I would like to have an entry like this
>>
>> 2000-01-01 * "Open ETH"
>>   Assets:Crypto:WalletB:ETH 0.5 ETH {1200.00 USD, 2018-01-01}
>>   Assets:Crypto:WalletB:ETH -0.1 ETH 
>>   Assets:Crypto:WalletB:ETH 0.5 ETH {1300.00 USD, 2018-01-20}
>>   Equity:Opening-Balances
>>
>> to automatically subtract from the first lot, but this doesn't work as in 
>> bean-report holdings simply all listed positions show up, positive and 
>> negative. the subtraction only works when I specify from which lot I want 
>> to sell, like this:
>>
>> 2000-03-23 * "Open ETH"
>>   Assets:Crypto:WalletB:ETH 0.5 ETH {1212.59 USD, 2018-01-01}
>>   Assets:Crypto:WalletB:ETH -0.1 ETH {1212.59 USD}
>>   Assets:Crypto:WalletB:ETH 0.5 ETH {1300 USD, 2018-01-20}
>>   Equity:Opening-Balances
>>
>> here the problem is that a lot of other entries are following and I can't 
>> keep track of the lots so the manual approach doesn't work here. 
>>
>> is there any way I can open this account and calculate the correct Lots 
>> by putting several ins and out into the same entry? otherwise I could also 
>> book an average price for all transactions but I would very much prefer to 
>> have it as accurate as possible.
>>
>> thanks
>>
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