Appropriate method to work Inventories

2021-09-13 Thread Toby
Hi, I am trying to use Beancount to track inventories and I am a little confused on how to do this correctly. I understand that there is costs and pricing and that @@ is used to denote price (which can change) and {{}} which the cost and can't change. Let me explain here :- 2021-01-01 * "Purc

Re: newbie question around getting going on smart_importer

2021-09-13 Thread Bman Q
just put correct "2nd legs" of transaction for smart_importer to learn from basically 2020-02-14 * "CHECK 213" Assets:Personal:Checking -2100.00 USD becomes 2020-02-14 * "CHECK 213 " Assets:Personal:Checking -2100.00 USD Expenses:Personal:

Re: Calculating Portfolio Returns

2021-09-13 Thread Bman Q
thank you, it worked. On Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 8:46:06 PM UTC-4 wbe...@gmail.com wrote: > You need to define commodities for everything you're using beangrow for, > in your case I imagine this is RDFN and SQ. You don't need to define the > metadata in your bullet item 3. > > On Sun, Sep

Re: Calculating Portfolio Returns

2021-09-13 Thread Bman Q
thank you for your reply, i understand that beangrow is experimental, and i really appreciate what it can do even in this form, hopefully we (i see some users on github) will contribute to work too. Your work is really helpful to lots of people, one more time thank you. I managed to make bean

Re: Calculating Portfolio Returns

2021-09-13 Thread Martin Blais
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 8:12 PM Bman Q wrote: > thank you for your reply, > > i understand that beangrow is experimental, and i really appreciate what > it can do even in this form, hopefully we (i see some users on github) will > contribute to work too. Your work is really helpful to lots of peo

Re: Calculating Portfolio Returns

2021-09-13 Thread redst...@gmail.com
On Monday, September 13, 2021 at 5:12:30 PM UTC-7 Bman Q wrote: > I have couple of additional questions on bean grow set-up: > 1. configure.py seems to ignore closed accounts, is it how it supposed to > work? > (usually for strictness i was closing accounts after i exited/sold > position, exa

Re: Appropriate method to work Inventories

2021-09-13 Thread redst...@gmail.com
Yes, there's extensive documentation: https://beancount.github.io/docs/how_inventories_work.html https://beancount.github.io/docs/trading_with_beancount.html I suggest reading and understanding those, and avoiding the @@ and {{ notations, at least at the beginning. Use @ and {} instead. If you