Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Hear, hear! Thanks John! David Original Message From: Adrien Monteleone Sent: Sun May 03 07:59:18 GMT+05:30 2020 To: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades? An even more thorough explanation and understanding. Thanks John! Regards, Adrien > On Ma

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
An even more thorough explanation and understanding. Thanks John! Regards, Adrien > On May 2, 2020 w18d123, at 5:11 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > Not quite right. While it's correct that in GnuCash's code a currency is a > commodity with a special namespace, and that an account has only one >

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread John Ralls
Not quite right. While it's correct that in GnuCash's code a currency is a commodity with a special namespace, and that an account has only one commodity member variable, it's not quite right about a non-currency commodity account not having a currency. Remember that a split has two commodity

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, I misspoke. Thank you. Technically it is denominated in itself. And technical accuracy is no minor point, especially with accounting, and leads to clearer understanding. Regards, Adrien > On May 2, 2020 w18d123, at 11:42 AM, D. wrote: > > Adrien, > > I'm sure I have this wrong, but my

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread D. via gnucash-user
converted into a different currency (e.g., AUD) depends on the parent account. That is, of course, all technicalities. The rest is correct. David Original Message From: Adrien Monteleone Sent: Sat May 02 21:55:02 GMT+05:30 2020 To: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] How do I add st

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
As well, the currency of a stock or fund is determined by the currency of the parent account. So if you set up a brokerage with sub-accounts, you set the brokerage to AUD and each sub-account is per fund/stock and those are set to their ticker symbol. If you own funds/stocks of different

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I haven’t done stock tracking either, so I can’t comment on if you get commodity entries in that tree or not, but as far as I understand them, normally, you are *not* doing transactions in them directly. Your transactions are entered between your various assets denominated in either your book

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread Arman Schwarz
Thanks guys for the clarity, I will look into that documentation. On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 17:19, David Cousens wrote: > The trading accounts should be created automatically when you buy and sell > shares and stock once the feature is enabled as described in the WIki. You > don't need to create

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread David Cousens
The trading accounts should be created automatically when you buy and sell shares and stock once the feature is enabled as described in the WIki. You don't need to create them at all. I have just started on documneting the use of trading accounts with currency transactions. They appear under their

Re: [GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread D. via gnucash-user
From: armanschwarz Sent: Sat May 02 12:12:15 GMT+05:30 2020 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] How do I add stock trades? I would like to start recording my stock trades in GnuCash (3.10). Based on the instructions I could find (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts) I enabled "Trading&

[GNC] How do I add stock trades?

2020-05-02 Thread armanschwarz
I would like to start recording my stock trades in GnuCash (3.10). Based on the instructions I could find (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts) I enabled "Trading" accounts and then created a top-level Trading account with the name "Trading". I tried to fumble through the instructions