Reporting: weighted average price source

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jul 7 15:21:05 EDT 2008


"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:

> I agree with Derek. That is, the "weighted average" price source is not
> intended to compute the cost of your holdings, but rather to compute the
> volume-weighted average price of all buys AND sells. So it needs to keep using
> the absolute value. However, it does need to be changed: it should ignore
> exchanges with a zero "amount" in the split.

Agreed.

-derek

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