Re: beancount OFX; investment inventory

2017-01-06 Thread Christopher Singley
On Thursday, 5 January 2017 23:21:14 UTC-6, Martin Blais wrote: > There are two phases: parsing, and then booking. > The parsing outputs incomplete costs, which are interpreted as aspects to > be matched against the list of available positions during the booking phase. > After booking, the post

Re: beancount OFX; investment inventory

2017-01-06 Thread Simon Michael
Interesting discussion. hledger is the least sophisticated of the three when it comes to trading, currently. Beancount seems to be leading the way here. One of these days I hope to understand better what y'all are talking about here. On 1/5/17 9:18 PM, Martin Blais wrote: The TL;DR is that L

Re: beancount OFX; investment inventory

2017-01-06 Thread Christopher Singley
Securities trading is basically a special case of inventory/cost of goods sold bookkeeping. It's a bit funkier than plan-vanilla flow-of-funds type bookkeeping. You can read up on it at the website for which beancount is named: http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/BCTutorSite/Courses/Inv/lesson02-2.ht

Re: beancount OFX; investment inventory

2017-01-06 Thread Martin Blais
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Christopher Singley wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 January 2017 23:21:14 UTC-6, Martin Blais wrote: > >> There are two phases: parsing, and then booking. >> The parsing outputs incomplete costs, which are interpreted as aspects to >> be matched against the list of availa

Re: beancount OFX; investment inventory

2017-01-06 Thread Martin Blais
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Christopher Singley wrote: > Securities trading is basically a special case of inventory/cost of goods > sold bookkeeping. It's a bit funkier than plan-vanilla flow-of-funds type > bookkeeping. > > You can read up on it at the website for which beancount is named