Stocks, advanced portfolio and multi-currency

[Stefano M Canta]

That's exactly my problem.
Thank you!

Stefano


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Stefano Mihai Canta, Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering Specialist
Antenna Subsystem Operations

Space Systems/Loral
3825 Fabian Way M/S G-43
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4604
Tel  1-650-852-5808
Fax 1-650-308-1808


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de>wrote:

> 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=592569>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=653127<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
>>
>>
>> -----
>>
>> Stefano Mihai Canta, Ph.D.
>> Electrical Engineering Specialist
>> Antenna Subsystem Operations
>>
>> Space Systems/Loral
>> 3825 Fabian Way M/S G-43
>> Palo Alto, CA 94303-4604
>> Tel  1-650-852-5808
>> Fax 1-650-308-1808
>>
>>
>> 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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