[GNC] How do I add stock trades?

[Adrien Monteleone]

I haven’t done stock tracking either, so I can’t comment on if you get commodity entries in that tree or not, but as far as I understand them, normally, you are *not* doing transactions in them directly. Your transactions are entered between your various assets denominated in either your book currencies or funds/stock, etc. GnuCash will auto-create the needed Trading Accounts splits to keep everything in balance. It is rare you should have to touch those Trading splits yourself.

Certainly, you shouldn’t have manually created accounts in the Trading tree containing your manually entered investment transactions. All investments go under Assets.

Regards,
Adrien

> On May 2, 2020 w18d123, at 2:16 AM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> The trading accounts should be created automatically when you buy and sell
> shares and stock once the feature is enabled as described in the WIki. You
> don't need to create them at all. I have just started on documneting the use
> of trading accounts with currency transactions. They appear under their own
> top level account Trading of type Trading ( which is a specialized form of
> income account) .This will have a subaccount CURRENCY under which the
> currency exchange transactions are recorded in subaccounts for each currency
> in use. I would expect for stock trades you should get a sub-account
> COMMODITY automatically created and under that a trading account for each
> commodity/security you have buy/sell transactions for.  I haven't tried to
> set it up yet myself but from my experience with the CURRENCY transactions
> this is what I would expect to happen.
> 
> David Cousens