> On Dec 14, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa > <chr.pin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like your experience to track Futures and Options with gnucash. > - Any special account to use? It is not a mutual fund, stock... > - Advice? > > In the case of Futures which I am more interested in we could have an > "active" or "bank" account: > - day 0: ingress of the guarantee, i.e., 1000 € > - day 1: earnings or loss 1st day, i.e., -100 € > - day 2: earnings or loss 2nd day, i.e., +123 € > - ... > - final day: earnings or loss last day, i.e., +50 € > > I am sure if the advanced portfolio report would include this account... >
As far as GnuCash is concerned an option is a stock. You need to learn the rules in your jurisdiction about whether individual investors are required to "mark to market"; they generally aren't. If you're not required to, then for accounting purposes there are only two events with an option: Buying and selling; expiration of an unexercised option is a sale at 0, one loses one's whole investment. If you are required to mark-to-market then you probably want a more sophisticated accounting program than GnuCash; in GnuCash you'd have to manually post the gain or loss daily, and no, I don't think the APR knows how to deal with mark-to-market transactions. You also need to learn the rules for when you exercise an option: In the US you add the cost of the option to the basis for the purchased stock for a call or deduct it from the proceeds for a put. If you're the one writing the option then it's the other way around. Futures are just options for tangible goods or currency, same rules. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
