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

2017-08-12 Thread jkepler
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 to

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

2017-08-12 Thread Martin Blais
BTW, Ledger won't solve the problem either. There's simply no booking against inventory state in Ledger. The only reason "it works" in your Ledger example is that it simply sums up all the lots, and you can aggregate units or cost at reporting time. You can do exactly the same thing in Beancount,

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

2017-08-12 Thread Martin Blais
Ouf... you're opening a number of cans of worms here. (1) The error you see happens because your 0.84429 reducing transaction has nothing to match against. You didn't add anything at a cost basis to reduce against. Check out the "bean-doctor context" command to help you debug what's going on, and

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

2017-08-12 Thread jkepler
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 beanc