Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2023-04-22 Thread john
Maybe, because it's all we've got for differentiating two securities with the same symbol. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 22, 2023, at 1:20 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > Is there a relationship between Security Namespaces and Trading accounts? > If I change which Namespace a security is in,

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2023-04-22 Thread Fred Tydeman
Is there a relationship between Security Namespaces and Trading accounts? If I change which Namespace a security is in, should that affect a Trading account? On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:29 PM john wrote: > No, the naming scheme is hard-coded. Ralf Habacker made a start at > removing name

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2023-04-21 Thread john
No, the naming scheme is hard-coded. Ralf Habacker made a start at removing name dependencies but got it working only for opening balance accounts. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 21, 2023, at 9:30 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > Can Trading accounts be moved around? > That is, given a new parent. >

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-27 Thread Mike Alexander
This is one side of the story. For another view of things you might take a look at https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html. You could also look at https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html which is outdated but still might be useful. If you want

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-27 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Geoff, Changing values of reconciled transactions without notice renders a book completely unreliable for any accounting purpose. If that's not evil, what is? David T. On July 27, 2022 2:46:34 PM GMT+03:00, Geoff wrote: >Lots. > >(And they aren't really evil, just wilful). > >;--)) > >Geoff

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-27 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
The thread I started, with the title "Evil Lots Behavior" was about the Gnucash *Lots* feature, which is designed to "assist" users in the management of individual lots of stock and mutual fund shares. (For the record, the lots feature will change reconciled gains transactions without

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-27 Thread Geoff
Lots. (And they aren't really evil, just wilful). ;--)) Geoff = On 27/07/2022 8:36 pm, David Carlson wrote: This has confused me. Is the recent thread titled " [GNC] Evil Lots Behavior" about lots or trading accounts? On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:10 AM David T. wrote: David C.

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-27 Thread David Carlson
This has confused me. Is the recent thread titled " [GNC] Evil Lots Behavior" about lots or trading accounts? On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:10 AM David T. wrote: > David C. > > Trading accounts are not the same as lots. Different concept, different > code. Just a for instance: trading accounts

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
David C. Trading accounts are not the same as lots. Different concept, different code. Just a for instance: trading accounts are turned on by book; lots can be enabled by account. David T. On July 27, 2022 3:33:37 AM GMT+03:00, David Carlson wrote: >I believe that you are witnessing first

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread David Carlson
I forgot to address fixing the mess. I think there are two ways to fix it. The easiest is to restore your last backup from before turning on TA's. The other, iirc, is to manually delete all those TA's. On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 7:24 PM wrote: > Fred, > > Not early in the guide, but in the section

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread David Carlson
I believe that you are witnessing first hand why trading accounts are not enabled by default, i.e. they create a royal mess in your trading history. You might want to re-read the recent thread about evil trading accounts. They may work ok for some users who's documentation goals align with the

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread davidcousens49
Fred, Not early in the guide, but in the section dealing with multiple currencies https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/currency_trading_accts.html and discussed on the wiki (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts). I don't think anyone has yet written anything about any

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-05 Thread Mike Alexander
On 4 Apr 2021, at 3:29, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think I should file bug reports? Sure, if you can specify detailed step by step instructions for reproducing the errors. The more information you can give the more likely it is to get fixed. Mike

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-04 Thread zuperkoleoptera
On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 03:21 -0400, Mike Alexander wrote: > On 3 Apr 2021, at 1:31, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > Another issue that I just realized and is related to the > > functionality > > of trading accounts, but maybe not the one that we are discussing > > here, > > is the

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-03 Thread Mike Alexander
On 3 Apr 2021, at 1:31, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: Another issue that I just realized and is related to the functionality of trading accounts, but maybe not the one that we are discussing here, is the security/currency of the top level placeholder account Trading. Shouldn't that be set

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread zuperkoleoptera
On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 13:38 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 12:23 PM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 11:58 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:42 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri,

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 2, 2021, at 12:23 PM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 11:58 -0700, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >>> On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:42 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 08:47 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > On Apr 2, 2021, at

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread zuperkoleoptera
On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 11:58 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:42 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 08:47 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 8:37 AM, John Ralls > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 2021, at

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:42 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 08:47 -0700, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >>> On Apr 2, 2021, at 8:37 AM, John Ralls wrote: >>> >>> On Apr 2, 2021, at 4:05 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: which by the way it does not

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread zuperkoleoptera
On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 08:47 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 8:37 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 4:05 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > which by the way it > > > does not use the default security fraction which is 1/ > > > but > > >

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 2, 2021, at 8:37 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2021, at 4:05 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> which by the way it >> does not use the default security fraction which is 1/ but >> 1/. > > The price is in Euro, so it displays as 1/100 of the Euro's

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 2, 2021, at 4:05 AM, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: > > which by the way it > does not use the default security fraction which is 1/ but > 1/. The price is in Euro, so it displays as 1/100 of the Euro's fraction. That's for display only, the actual calculated price is as

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread zuperkoleoptera
I have been using lots and scrubing my investment accounts to track realized gains. But since I have turned on trading accounts I have not scrubbed any account. I am attaching an example of 2 splits created after turning on trading accounts. As a side-note some of the account names are in

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts functionality

2021-04-02 Thread Mike Alexander
On 28 Mar 2021, at 11:21, zuperkoleopt...@gmail.com wrote: The problem I am facing is the following, after activating trading accounts the system created the hierarchy for all the trading accounts, but also created a bunch of splits in already recorded transactions. So from the beginning the