(Sorry I put a zero too many in the example; still valid though, look at the dates).
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> * Martin Blais <[email protected]> [2014-05-13 17:13]: >> > Hmmm interesting. What's a scenario in which this is useful? >> >> One example: show me all shares I purchased before date X. Might be >> useful for example when the way capital gains are taxed is changed (as >> happened in Austria recently: shares bought before a certain date >> don't attract capital gains tax if hold for more than a year; gains on >> newer purchases are taxable). > > > Does anything prevent me from doing this? > > 2013-02-03 * Bought some shares > Assets:ETrade:Cash -2000 USD > Assets:ETrade:ITOT 200 ITOT {100 USD / 2012-05-02} > > Do you think it might be more robust to automatically attach the > transaction date to the lots of all positions with a cost that don't reduce > an existing position? > Now I'm not convinced I even need lots declarations anymore, other than > for RESOLVING ambiguous cases (not DECLARING them). > > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
