> On Oct 28, 2023, at 09:50, Marcus Winston <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I've just updated to GC 5.4-1 (flatpak; linux). Something really strange is
> going on. In the Advanced Portfolio report, the cash balance is reported in
> USD (the correct currency), but the price of the currency is not $1.
> Sometimes it's $11.88, sometimes it's $92.xx (92 and change). I did not
> notice this before, so it may have happened under the previous version I was
> running 4.something). But, something is really wrong. When I click on the
> hyperlink on the price, it takes me to the price editor for a mutual fund
> that is not even part of the account.
>
> I did a fix and repair all, but that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Any hints
> as to where to look would be appreciated.
I guess you mean that you included a currency account in the APR accounts as
the APR doesn't have anything labelled "cash balance". Acting on that guess I
tried it and found that the report logic apparently has no special-casing for
an account in the report currency so it goes looking for a price in the
pricedb. Of course it won't find anything for USD-USD, so it looks for a
two-step conversion, USD->XXX->USD, comes up with something, and proceeds to
use that something to generate nonsense for the rest of the line.
While it's not hard to think of same-currency accounts that would make sense to
be included in the APR--a certificate of deposit comes immediately to
mind--it's also easy to think of cases where that could only produce nonsense,
starting with your brokerage cash account. Figuring out the "basis" and
separating out the sweep or money-market income from changes due to trades and
inflows from other holdings would be inordinately complex.
For the true currency investment like a CD or even a savings account you can
work around the pricing fail and generate a meaningful line in the APR by
inventing a security. That's technically correct for Money Market funds, where
you own units in the fund and the managers exert a great deal of effort to keep
the price of those units at $1.00, which effort is not always successful.
Regards,
John Ralls
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