Hi folks,
I have some stock purchases that I have specified using total costs.
Because of not-round-numbers, I'm having trouble specifying the lot so I
can sell it cleanly.
Here's an example:
2023/11/01 * Buy Shares
Assets:401K 6.456 FSKAX @@ $734.43
Income:Opening Balances -$734.43
2023/11/02 * Sell Shares
Assets:401K -6.456 FSKAX {$113.7592936803}
[2023/11/01] @ $120.00
Income:Capital Gains -$40.29
Assets:401K $774.72
The first transaction uses the total posting cost. To record the second
transaction, I ran, `ledger --lots balance Assets:401K`. I copied that $113
number verbatim as printed.
So I've sold all the shares, but now when I run `ledger --lots balance
Assets:401K`, the result is:
$774.72
6.456 FSKAX {$113.7592936803} [2023/11/01]
-6.456 FSKAX {$113.7592936803} [2023/11/01] Assets:401K
So it looks like the lot I sold doesn't quite match what ledger thinks I
owned. I anticipate the issue is that the precision used in printing is
different than the precision used to store lots internally.
I tried selling using the total posting cost:
2023/11/02 * Sell Shares
Assets:401K -6.456 FSKAX {{$734.43}}
[2023/11/01] @ $120.00
Income:Capital Gains -$40.29
Assets:401K $774.72
That works great as long as I sell whole lots. But as soon as I try to sell
a partial lot, it doesn't work at all. (The capital gains are not
calculated correctly.)
The best idea I have right now is to just not use total posting costs, and
always use the per-share price. But I find total posting costs to be
convenient for many use cases.
Any suggestions?
Thanks folks!
Bob Wilson
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