[GNC] Advanced Portfolio: "sell transaction causing a negative stock balance, and a subsequent buy transaction causing a zero balance"

[Christopher Lam]

Highlight the "transfer" buy transaction, click transaction duplicate, and
accept the exact same day. You now have two buy transactions. Now highlight
the first one and delete it.

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, 05:54 Anthony Joseph Messina <amessina at messinet.com>
wrote:

> With GnuCash 3.1 on Fedora 28, I encounter the following error with the
> Advanced Portfolio report that I didn't receive on previous 2.6.y versions.
>
> "There is an error processing the transaction 'buying 1.4907 share units'.
> This may to be caused by a sell transaction causing a negative stock
> balance,
> and a subsequent buy transaction causing a zero balance. This leads to a
> division-by-zero error. It can be fixed by preventing negative stock
> balances."
>
> A stock in one of my 403(b) accounts was exchanged for another back on
> 4/24/2015.
>
> Date            Description     Tot Shares      Tot Buy Tot Sell
>       Balance
> 4/09/15
>                      258.9702
> 4/24/15 Transfer                -260.4609                       38,540.22
>      -1.4907
> 4/24/15 Contrib         1.4907          220.58                          0
>
> What is the proper fix here?  It seems like the "Contrib" entry needs to
> be
> moved just before the "Transfer" on 4/24/15, but I'm not sure of the way
> to do
> this.  If I try to fake the date of "Contrib" to 4/23/15, I get the
> ominous
> warning about moving a transaction that's been reconciled, so I don't
> really
> want to do that.
>
> Thanks for your help.  -A
>
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