Tracking Currency Transaction Gains

[Stefan Soeffing]

Hmm, seems you are right, GnuCash doesn't allow me to fiddle around with 
trading accounts. Based on Selinger's tutorial, the transaction to 
create a realized gain/loss out of unrealized g/l is simply from trading 
accounts into the gain/loss account. But obviously there is no 
(straight-forward) way of achieving this.

In fact I managed to do that only using the workaround described in item 
#2 here:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2014-March/053883.html

But shouldn't this be easier? Even if the lots feature works (to be 
discussed _if_ it really does for currencies, see 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368), the lots feature is 
based on FIFO and the user might want/need to use another approach to 
determine the realized gain/loss...

- Stefan

On 05.12.2016 17:02, John Ralls wrote:
> I don't think it's possible for the user to enter capital gain splits 
> directly in a currency account as the price and value fields aren't 
> visible, and the Transfer Dialog will refuse to open if the amount 
> field is empty or contains 0. Similarly while the Lots Dialog will 
> allow one to create lots and assign transactions to them it doesn't 
> seem to create a gains transaction for currency<->currency lots. See 
> also bug 775368 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368>.
>