Re: Trading Accounts for Securities

When I set up a trading account for a USD stock, gnucash diligently added transactions in the trading account for the stock and for USD. The stock trading account simply tracks the number of shares in the account (which is what the asset account for the stock already does). The USD trading account

Re: Trading Accounts for Securities

Thanks, Derek. I get that. I guess trading accounts do not provide for a use case I need. Keith On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:10 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Trading accounts do not show you UNREALIZED gains. They exist to help you > balance out REALIZED gains once you

Re: Trading Accounts for Securities

Hi, Trading accounts do not show you UNREALIZED gains. They exist to help you balance out REALIZED gains once you have a sale transaction. -derek On Wed, February 21, 2018 12:00 pm, Keith Bellairs wrote: > I started looking at using trading accounts but I may be missing > something. > > The

Trading Accounts for Securities

I started looking at using trading accounts but I may be missing something. The trading account created by gnucash for a stock shows as a balance the number of shares in the account. This is also the balance shown in the asset account for that stock. Transactions for all stocks post to the USD