Set up a stock account?

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Mon Oct 31 16:31:31 EDT 2011


Hi,

On Mon, October 31, 2011 4:11 pm, . wrote:
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> How do you set up an account which will hold the stock transactions from
> a brokerage account?
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> I've read stuff that says you have to create an entirely new file.
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> There's got to be an easy way.

Your brokerage account is just a standard Asset account.  Then you need to
create individual Stock or Fund accounts under that for each Stock or Fund
that you buy.  Part of creating those S/F subaccounts will be creating the
Stock or Fund commodity.

Please see the docs for more information.

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-derek

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