[GNC] Selling stock

[John Ralls]

Heide,

There’s an alternative: Let the Stock Assistant (in the Actions menu when you have a stock register open) guide you through creating the transaction.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Feb 7, 2026, at 19:33, Heide Wang <heidew99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> Thank you. I am more interested in using "Combine the sale and capital gain in one transaction" as in 9.7.1.1. not the Captial 11. After I entered the negative share and the selling price, I tapped 'split.' My account register did not match the example's in 9.7.1.1. I must have done something wrong.
> Any additional suggestions would be appreciated.
> Heide
> 
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
>> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_capgain.html
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 6, 2026, at 10:00, Heide Wang <heidew99 at gmail.com <mailto:heidew99 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have held stocks in my Gnucash account for over 10 years; I've never sold
>>> them. I recently sold the stock for a profit. What is the correct way to
>>> record it to show the profit?  I entered the negative share number and
>>> total sold price, then tabbed the split, but it recorded the sale without
>>> showing any profit. What did I do wrong?
>>> I used Gnucash 5.10. My operating system is macOS Sequoia 15.7.3.
>>> Thank you for your help.
>>> Heide
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