(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).
>
>
>
>

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