Investment performance

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 10/21/2016 3:15 PM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
> On 20/10/2016 16:28, Filipe Giusti wrote:
>> Exactly, it's very good on accounting, I've been tracking my investments
>> and expenses for a long time using GnuCash and I never said it's bad.
>> However what I'm looking for is not trading information.
>>
>> I decide monthly how I'm going to reallocate assets and where new money
>> goes,
Actually Filipe, I'd want to know more about what you are trying to do, 
exactly what strategy for reallocation you are trying to follow. Some of 
the better strategies, although ultimately based on performance, do NOT 
require the kind of data you seem to think you need (and can be done 
with just data gnucash can easily supply).

For example, if you are following a "rebalancing" strategy, you need to 
know JUST the current balances (and their total) and not HOW they got to 
their current balances since the last time rebalancing was done << you 
don't need to know what the prior balance, the prior total, etc. as >>

Michael D Novack

PS: The strategy I am giving as an example also known as "asset 
allocation". You decide what percentage of the fund should be in which 
asset accounts and at what point of imbalance you reallocate to restore 
that planned allocation. This forces taking of profits from the sectors 
which have already risen and moving these to sectors that have lagged. 
The concept is that not all sectors move the same way at the same time. 
You rebalance whenever out of balance by the threshold decided but you 
only need the current balances to make that decision.