On Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 8:15:19 AM UTC+10:30 SomeCallMeTim wrote: I might also suggest that for most practical situations, it's not necessary to visualize net worth per-day over large timespans and you can get an additional speedup by plotting once/week or /month or /year.
I agree that for most people daily isn't especially useful. What decisions will you make based on daily data? The rest of my workflow is originally based on Google Sheets where it's the opposite, getting daily information is easier than weekly/monthly, so I've grown accustomed to checking daily. And, for my particular use case, the net worth flows through a PMT calculation which drives our spending for the year (I'm retired) and when making larger spending decisions I like to ensure I have the freshest data. (If the market crashed 4 days ago because of, I dunno, a war in Iran, I might not call the stormwater guy this week like I was planning to....) But if you're not spending down your portfolio that's not really a concern. For what it is worth, volatility depends on the resolution (daily volatility > monthly volatility > quarterly volatility > annual volatility) and I think it is "good medicine" for people to internalise how volatile their investments actually are to reduce the chance of panic-selling when volatility spikes. Also, thanks for the PRs! I've accepted one and will look at the other one in the next few days. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/576ef529-60b6-4687-a82b-748938505cffn%40googlegroups.com.
