I am going to respond to myself just to keep this information if someone ask the same question in the future.
No, it seems there is no way. Advance portfolio applies always the same exchange rate to basis and value. (I am trying to understand the trading option but I am not sure it is going to help me) The other way to do it is buying the stock (initial and additional purchases) and keeping the price list for this security using the Gnucash main currency. In my case $. That's the only way to keep the cost basis with the original exchange rate, basically deleting the exchange. Pros: the advance portfolio is updated and you only use one currency Cons: forget about the automatic download of quotes. You have to do it manually. If your portfolio only has 2 stocks probably is fine but with 10 stocks and several purchases and dividends every week it is a lot of work. I wish I could understand the program to fix the advance portfolio format but I think in my case it could make sense to have a spreadsheet. Thanks *********************** Hi, Question about how Gnucash handles the foreign stocks. My Gnucah main currency is dollar but I have some stocks in EUR. Gnucash is updating the basis cost in dollar every time I update the EUR/$ exchange rate in the Advance Portfolio report. However, IRS requires comparing the selling price with cost basis with the exchange rate at each specific date. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-currency-and-currency-exchange-rates Is there a way to keep the cost basis with fixed exchange rate? Thanks _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
