I just run a custom report. Indeed the lot information is lost. The purchase date and cost basis are both wrong. I'll contact IB custom support to fix that...
-- Zhuoyun Wei On Wed, May 1, 2019, at 22:06, Justus Pendleton wrote: > On Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 12:48:34 AM UTC+7, Zhuoyun Wei wrote: > > One thing surprises me is that the receiving broker (InteractiveBrokers, to > > be exact) does not preserve the cost basis. In its PDF statement and the > > TWS, the cost basis of the inbound positions is the price when IBKR > > receives the positions. It's my first time doing ACATS, so I have no idea > > if this is a normal thing. > > I have done an ACATS to Interactive Brokers and it preserved my cost > basis & the date of acquisition. > > I would double check that the cost basis is actually gone. IB makes > this surprisingly hard to verify. You need to create a custom report to > see lots. Go to Statements, click the gear icon in Custom Statements on > the right, click the + to create a new statement, and select "Open > Positions" in the Sections. Then run that report and you can see all of > your lots, with their date of acquisition and cost basis. > > If it is wrong, I'd contact IB support and tell them to fix it. From > what I gather, brokers are generally happy to put whatever you tell > them in the cost basis data. After all, if it is wrong, they don't get > in trouble with the tax authorities....you do. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/884c28a7-3deb-4301-bbc5-156d66aff085%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/884c28a7-3deb-4301-bbc5-156d66aff085%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/95ebf171-25b6-485e-865f-c36a77268e61%40www.fastmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
