New trading accounts for currencies - help in setting up

[Ian K]

Gez wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, it looks like Ctrl-F ("find transaction") won't
> return any
> values that are only in the trading accounts, so I can't search for
> transactions by their value in the original currency.  
> 
I'm not sure why you want to search within the trading accounts. To search
for transactions in the original currency, you can look in the accounts of
the originating transactions. e.g. if your base ccy is GBP and you spent
some USD cash while on holiday, a transaction might look like:

Assets:Cash:USD Cash -USD50, Trading:CURRENCY:USD +USD50
Expenses:Holiday +GBP31.25, Trading:CURRENCY:GBP -GBP31.35

So just look in USD Cash to see the currency transaction.

As for rates, the transaction picks up the latest price from the Price
Editor. You can update prices automatically in the Price Editor if
Finance::Quote is installed.

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