It's in the index:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RaondTJCS_IUPBHFNdT8oqFKJjVJDsfsn6JEjBG04eA/edit#heading=h.hzs9xa5699ul
It's fairly recent, so you might have missed it.
I'm planning another one on trading derivatives with Beancount.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 9:45 AM david e <[email protected]> wrote:

> that's a highly useful documentation @martin. is it linked in the
> beancount docs (I don't remember seeing it there) and if not, are there
> more reports like this available? thank you!
>
> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2021 um 16:09:38 UTC+1:
>
>> Further, it usually makes more sense to treat buy/sell on commodities in
>> separate transactions.
>> This then allows you to eventually compute returns
>> See http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/returns
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:58 AM Daniele Nicolodi <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/02/2021 09:28, David Karapetyan wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Firstly, I wanted to compliment you on this brilliant project (and your
>>> > excellent documentation in particular on double-entry accounting,
>>> useful
>>> > particularly for people already working in technical fields). I had a
>>> > question about balance assertions for investment accounts.
>>> Specifically,
>>> > suppose I have the following two (and only two transactions) for
>>> Fidelity:
>>> >
>>> > Assets:US:Fidelity:SPAXX   10 USD
>>> > Assets:US:Fidelity:FNILX 20 USD
>>>
>>> This is not valid Beancoutn syntax. However, completing it in the most
>>> straightforward way:
>>>
>>> 2020-02-17 * "Foo"
>>>   Assets:US:Fidelity:SPAXX                             10.00 USD
>>>   Assets:US:Fidelity:FNILX                             20.00 USD
>>>   Assets:Openings
>>>
>>> these are two postings on a transaction, not two transactions. However,
>>> I don't think semantics is part of your problem :-)
>>>
>>> > I would like to do a balance assertion on the sum of these accounts in
>>> > time, i.e.
>>> >
>>> > 2020-01-01 balance Assets:US:Fidelity 30 USD
>>>
>>> This works out of the box (as long as you remember to open the
>>> Assets:US:Fidelity account):
>>>
>>> 2020-02-17 open Assets:Openings
>>> 2020-02-17 open Assets:US:Fidelity
>>> 2020-02-17 open Assets:US:Fidelity:SPAXX
>>> 2020-02-17 open Assets:US:Fidelity:FNILX
>>>
>>> 2020-02-17 * "Foo"
>>>   Assets:US:Fidelity:SPAXX                             10.00 USD
>>>   Assets:US:Fidelity:FNILX                             20.00 USD
>>>   Assets:Openings
>>>
>>> 2020-02-18 balance Assets:US:Fidelity 31.00 USD
>>>
>>> Can you post a self contained minimal example where it does not work?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dan
>>>
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