[GNC] problem with a transaction involving 3 securities

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Hi,

I'm trying out something that until now I didn't try, and that's buying
a stock from a broker that handles FX itself "silently" at the time of
the transaction (normally for my USD purchases I use an account in USD).

I have liquidity account in EUR, and the stock is in USD.

So what I attempted is this (seen from the security register, that is in
USD):

A:Investments:BrokerA:USD:RUSG          2    358.28      716.56
A:Investments:BrokerA:Liquidity   -634.14
Expenses:Fees:BrokerA                0.50
A:Investments:BrokerA:Liquidity     -0.50
Trading:CURRENCY:EUR               634.14
Trading:CURRENCY:USD                                     716.56
Inbalance-USD                                                     716.46
Trading:LSE:RUSG.L                     -2    358.28               716.46


I must add that the Trading:* slices were added automatically.  I'm
pretty lost on how to balance this transation, after trying a variety of
alternatives.
My original approach was to add a bunch of Trading: slices (e.g. show
the EUR→USD,USD→RUSG.L in a total of 4 Trading: slices, basically
turning that Inbalance-USD into Trading:CURRENCY:USD), but it looks like
gnucash doesn't let me to have multiple Trading:CURRENCY:USD slices in
the same transaction.

The only way I found to make this work, is to add a "USD
liquidity" account, exchange the EUR for USD there, and from there to
buy the shares, but that would split the transactions in two making it
a bit less easy to follow what happened.


FTR, my broker shows it like this:

    description                 fx rate         change      total
Buy 2 RUSG @ 358.28 USD                         $-716.56    $-716.56
Fees                                              €-0.50    €xxxx
Withdrawal FX                                   €-634.14    €xxxx
Credit FX                       1.13             $716.56    $0.00


Do you have an idea on to best record this transaction in gnucash? :)

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