bean-report error messages

Hello beancount users, I'm running bean-check against my ledger and its giving me "No position matches" errors for entries purchasing a commodity. I don't understand what that error could mean on a purchase transaction - if I were reducing lots, it would make perfect sense, but when augmenting

Re: can one reduce FIFO lots purchased in one currency and sold in another?

Thanks for your thorough and helpful response. I think I'd seen Selinger's currency trading accounts post referenced before, but hadn't taken time to read and understand it. Wow. His method does resolve the problem "elegantly," as you say. Unfortunately for me, I believe that the IRS requires

Re: can one reduce FIFO lots purchased in one currency and sold in another?

Thanks for your response. >> 2. If I explicitly put "USD" in all my empty {}, how does will FIFO >> booking option handle the occasional cases where I've purchased bitcoin >> with euros? >> > > I don't understand the question. If you try to reduce and provide USD in > the description, it

can one reduce FIFO lots purchased in one currency and sold in another?

Hello fellow beancount users, I've got a bunch of bitcoin purchases in USD that I then sold for EUR, and beancount isn't matching the EUR sales with the USD purchases of bitcoin. Running *bean-check* against the transactions results in a "No position matches" and a list of the current

Re: balanced ledger transaction(s) imported to beancount won't balance... help!

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of the commands and document resources I can use to debug my file. I'll re-read your trading documentation, as well as the docs on beancount's many tools. I had no idea the book_conversions plugin is ancient. Regarding my Bitcoin use, my primary use is

balanced ledger transaction(s) imported to beancount won't balance... help!

Hello, So, since I got the plugin for dealing with lots and capital gains running, I'm attempting to import my balanced ledger journal files into beancount so I can have the plugin deal with reducing my lots rather than doing it manually. But I've a significant number of transactions that

Re: how to I run a beancount plugin? beancount.plugins.book_conversions

Duh! I found it in the documentation, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QftxNvQPdH-MikMBHupftU6F4IsNZP5FlFh1LCbVgk8/edit: a plugin is added to the input file via the optional syntax. In my case, that was simply adding this line: plugin "beancount.plugins.book_conversions"

Re: syntax error, unexpected ACCOUNT

Yup. Beginners error here. Thanks for clarifying that so quickly for me. Joel Le samedi 5 août 2017 18:28:40 UTC+2, Martin Blais a écrit : > > You cannot insert comment syntax between the postings. > (This limitation is mainly due to the special treatment indentation has > and some limitations