Stocks, advanced portfolio and multi-currency

[Carsten Rinke]

Hi Stefano,

I think you are hit by the following known bugs:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592569
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653127

Kind regards,
/Carsten


On 05/13/2013 05:10 AM, Stefano M Canta wrote:
> The basis shows as 12766.46 CAD instead of 12766.46 USD. So the initial
> price is not correctly setup, and there is no way of specifying the
> currency of the initial price per share.
>
> Stefano
>
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> Stefano Mihai Canta, Ph.D.
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> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Stefano M Canta <cantastefano at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have the following problem.
>> I am based in the US and my company offers a share purchase plan.
>> I invested 12766.46 USD to buy 181.223261 shares of MDA.TO, which is
>> exchanged in Toronto. The brokerage valued 12766.46 USD to be 13133.55 CAD
>> on May 8th 2013.
>>
>> The overall transaction is 12766.46 USD -> 13133.55 CAD -> 181.223261
>> MDA.TO.
>>
>> Now I want to use the advanced portfolio report to to show my basis, and
>> the possible gain, in USD.
>>
>> The problem is that the report uses the 13133.55 CAD but converts this
>> value to USD using the online quote instead of the original price of
>> 12766.46 USD. So every day my basis changes... This is not the behavior
>> that I want to see for the basis. I am fine with the value of the stock
>> changing every day according to the market value of MDA.TO and the
>> conversion rate of USD to CAD, but the basis should only be related to the
>> day I bought the stock.
>>
>> How do I change that in the report?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefano
>>
>>
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