[GNC] Trading accounts functionality

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 2, 2021, at 12:23 PM, zuperkoleoptera at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 11:58 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:42 AM, zuperkoleoptera at gmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 08:47 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 2, 2021, at 8:37 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 2, 2021, at 4:05 AM, zuperkoleoptera at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> which by the way it
>>>>>> does not use the default security fraction which is
>>>>>> 1/00000000
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> 1/0000.   
>>>>> 
>>>>> The price is in Euro, so it displays as 1/100 of the Euro's
>>>>> fraction. That's for display only, the actual calculated price
>>>>> is
>>>>> as exact a fraction as can be represented with two 64-bit
>>>>> integers.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry, you meant that the BTC amount in the trading split is
>>>> rounded
>>>> to 1/1000. Maybe there's a 1/1000000 clamp left somewhere in the
>>>> balancing logic?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John Ralls
>>>> 
>>> Yes you are right, the account created by the trading subsystem,
>>> Trading:Crypto Currency:BTC-EUR, is in BTC which is a security in
>>> the
>>> system not in eur which is a currency. 
>>> Although I have switched to use "commodity value" in the "smallest
>>> fraction" switch it still uses 1/0000 instead the 1/00000000. 
>>> But this is somehow minor issue as I assume it does not affect the
>>> actual value of the account, it's just visual.   
>> 
>> No, it's pretty clearly keeping the transaction from balancing
>> because .0012 != .00115652.
>> 
>> As for the trading splits miraculously appearing, did that happen to
>> all cross-commodity transactions in your book or just ones that you
>> touched?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
> To all cross-commodity transactions, I haven't touched - balanced any
> transaction yet.
> I turned on trading accounts just a few days a go and still trying to
> evaluate my situation, whether I will keep the feature on or not. 

Well, you've touched at least the one from the screenshot. You can't get that dialog box unless you've opened the transaction for editing.

If you open the register for Trading:BTC-EUR are there lots of transactions listed?

Regards,
John Ralls