Hi, For stocks (and even options), you pay for a thing (or short sell a thing) and cash leaves (or comes into) your cash account. Very clear. The cash is price * quantity * multiplier.
Futures are different. No cash leaves/arrives in the beginning. Basically the value starts at zero. Only price differences over time matter and only when closing position does realized PnL bring cash in/out of cash account. How to deal with this in Beancount? Should I set the Beancount price to zero at first (and e.g. for informational purposes put the actual market price into the comment)? (I realize there is margin but that's just a virtual allocation of sorts (cash is still in the cash account), cannot really be determined from the price, plus it varies from time to time depending on volatility etc.) Thanks, Dan -- 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/d21eaa5b-58ef-45cd-8908-a6bd49b33196n%40googlegroups.com.
