Stock Option Accouting?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jun 25 18:20:35 CDT 2003


That's part of the 5-10% of the population that GnuCash does not
cater to.  If you're doing option trading of that sort you can afford
to pay an accountant to keep your books for you.

GnuCash is not all things to all people ;)

-derek

Dale Alspach <alspach at math.okstate.edu> writes:

> Actually stock options can be bought and sold. These are called derivatives
> and Black-Scholes modeling is a way to price them. (Nobel prizes in
> economics were awarded for this stuff.) This is rather
> specialized financial mathematics and I believe access to actual trading
> and pricing is very limited unless you work for one of the big investment firms.
> 
> Dale Alspach
> 
> 
> 
> 

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