Re: Open Account with several transactions for correct cost basis

2021-03-23 Thread Ben Blount
If you really want but I'm somewhat unclear what you are trying to do. Normally you'd book sales to PnL + a cash account for the proceeds. If you group the transactions together under a single txn your income statement will all be grouped under that date. Maybe that's fine if you don't care about

Re: Open Account with several transactions for correct cost basis

2021-03-23 Thread david e
thanks good idea – so the second entry with negative amounts is also balanced against Equity:Opening-Balances? b...@bben.us schrieb am Dienstag, 23. März 2021 um 17:24:40 UTC+1: > Beancount doesn't currently support transactions that self-reduce. So you > need to at least split the buys and

Re: Open Account with several transactions for correct cost basis

2021-03-23 Thread Ben Blount
Beancount doesn't currently support transactions that self-reduce. So you need to at least split the buys and sells. Should be no problem with having those be grouped together though. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 09:12 david e wrote: > I am trying to open an account and immediately add existing lots

Open Account with several transactions for correct cost basis

2021-03-23 Thread david e
I am trying to open an account and immediately add existing lots that go back in time to my journal file. for small positions with only one entry I simply did the following: 2021-03-23 * "Open XYZ" Assets:Crypto:WalletB:XYZ 3000.00 XYZ {0.03 USD, 2018-11-11} Income:Crypto:Airdrop but what

Re: Dealing with Commodities Swaps/Transactions in Beancount

2021-03-23 Thread david e
hello, I am also new to beancount and started to track my crypto trades with it as well. I have opened a reddit thread where I am trying to solve similar problems. --> link there you

Re: Extensions to currency syntax

2021-03-23 Thread Martin Blais
I think the problem is ordering and character-set. $ comes before the number, not after. I'm not sure if the change would be trivial but there are numbers in a number of different places which would all be affected (e.g. balance checks, costs, etc.). The other is that using Flex I didn't have

Re: Extensions to currency syntax

2021-03-23 Thread Justus Pendleton
On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 1:26:56 AM UTC+7 bl...@furius.ca wrote: > - Any of the A-Z characters are now supported, but they require new syntax. > Before this change, only the PSTCURM characters were supported. > Now all characters are supported, BUT YOU HAVE TO QUOTE THEM, like this: > Is