[GNC] Trading accounts

[David Carlson]

This has confused me.  Is the recent thread titled "
[GNC] Evil Lots Behavior" about lots or trading accounts?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:10 AM David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> David C.
>
> Trading accounts are not the same as lots. Different concept, different
> code. Just a for instance: trading accounts are turned on by book; lots can
> be enabled by account.
>
> David T.
>
> On July 27, 2022 3:33:37 AM GMT+03:00, David Carlson <
> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I believe that you are witnessing first hand why trading accounts are not
>> enabled by default,  i.e. they create a royal mess in your trading history.
>>
>> You might want to re-read the recent thread about evil trading accounts.
>>  They may work ok for some users who's documentation goals align with the
>> design parameters of TA's.
>>
>> Other users will prefer to continue either manually tracking lots in
>> external spreadsheets or trusting their brokers back rooms to do it for
>> them.
>>
>> Oh, I am neither a developer nor an accountant, just a long term user.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 5:47 PM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Over the past several months, I have been importing Quicken data into
>>>  GnuCash.  There is about 6 years of data and lots of transactions.  Besides
>>>  normal income and expenses, that data involved many different stocks and
>>>  many different currencies.  Recently, I saw a reference to "Trading"
>>>  accounts.  I have now enabled that feature.  Based on reading
>>>  https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial, I believe that
>>>  my old transactions that involve currencies (and maybe stocks and other
>>>  assets whose value varies) were done wrong.
>>>
>>>  Do I need to redo old transactions involving currencies?
>>>  Do I need to redo old transactions involving stocks?
>>>  Do I need to redo old transactions involving any assets whose price
>>>  varies?  This probably depends upon the asset, eg. no for Real Estate.
>>>
>>>  Is there an easy way to fix the mess I have created?
>>>
>>>  Aside:  I do not recall any mention of trading accounts in the Tutorial
>>>  early on when it talked about setting up the Chart of Accounts.
>>>
>>>  What is the reason that Trading accounts are not turned on by default?
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