Stocks sales in Retirement Accounts

[Quark Z.]

Wow!  That was quick.  Thanks for the clarification.  I have set that up 
now!

Thanks!

On 07/18/2014 09:50 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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