Stocks sales in Retirement Accounts

[Robin Chattopadhyay]

It's still a loss. Just (in the U.S. anyway) not a taxable loss. So I have
two separate Capital Gain accounts. One for taxable gains, one for
non-taxable gains.

Also, there's no loss on the *purchase.* Only the sale.




On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Quark Z. <zquark32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm am getting the hang of splitting up stock sales.  However, in a
> retirement account it is a little different because you don't track capital
> gains & losses the same.  I'm trying to enter a sale at a loss.  I have the
> following.
>
> The Sell side is easy:
> Gross sale = $500
> Loss on sale = $60
>
> The buy side is where I'm stuck:
> Assets:Retirement = $493
> Expense:Commission = $7
> Loss = $60
>
> My question is where do I post the Loss to?  It's not an Expense:Capital
> Loss is it?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Lou
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