Duplicated "Trading" accounts

[David Bergum]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 7:22, Derek Atkins wrote:

> David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 
>> What, exactly, is a 'Trading" account?  Is it something special that is
>> aimed at day-traders, or is it for average investors?
> 
> "trading accounts" are used to perform multi-currency double-entry
> accounting, to better account for gains and losses when transfering
> assets from one commodity to another.  It's a feature of GnuCash that
> you have to "turn on" and it will auto-generate additional split entries
> for you to keep track of the movement.

Can one enable trading accounts after several years of bookeeping w/o using it? Will it through off past balances?

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