Thanks, John. That helps my understanding.

Le vendredi 8 mai 2020 00:07:03 UTC-4, John Wiegley a écrit :
>
> >>>>> "JS" == Joel Swanson <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> JS> Does posting order affect stock or commodity cost basis in Ledger? 
>
> JS> Is that really the desired behavior, where changing the order of 
> postings 
> JS> changes the items for which ledger tracks lots? Does this have 
> something 
> JS> to do with which postings are considered primary and secondary in a 
> JS> transaction with three or more postings? 
>
> Yes, that is actually the reasoning. The first posting establishes the 
> secondary commodity, while the second is the primary. 
>
> You can avoid this confusing by not using the auto-calculation logic, and 
> identifying your lots explicitly: 
>
>     2004/05/01 Stock purchase 
>         Expenses:Broker:Commissions        $19.95 
>         Assets:Broker                     50 AAPL {$30.00} [2004/05/01] 
> (<TransactionId>) @ $30.00 
>         Assets:Broker                  $-1,519.95 
>
> If you use this fully elaborated lot specification everywhere, then you'll 
> always know what Ledger is based its numbers on. Generally when I sell a 
> commodity I just copy the details from the opening transaction. 
>
> John 
>

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