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, example: "2020-10-06 close Assets:Investing:CSchwab:RDFN") > Hmm, it shouldn't: see this line and comment <https://github.com/beancount/beangrow/blob/49bf41539cbb4fcee3c2034ce419ab507b3860bf/beangrow/configure.py#L37>and its code: """Return a list of account names from the balance sheet which either aren't closed or are closed now but were still open at the given start date. """ If you're seeing a problem case, would you mind opening a bug in the repo with a demo example? 2. "Including Uninvested Cash" > Do i understand it right that the easiest way to account for uninvested > cash is to create > -commodity "IDDLEUSD" > -account Assets:Investing:IDDLEUSD > buy IDDLEUSD for all cash (USD) that i can invest at rate 1:1, > and then at each interval i do reports "price IDDLEUSD 1 USD", > and when i want to buy smng sell IDDLEUSD for USD, and buy what i want. > ? > > OR is there a way to make my investment cash accounts > "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:Cash", etc to be counted as investment (with 0 > return) ? > The latter is exactly what I do for now: simply include "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:Cash" as a commodity, and it'll show up with very low returns. However, for me, this means that cash in other parts of the hierarchy (example: banks, paypal, etc.) are not counted. AFAIK, beangrow does not offer a global solution for this. See "Including Uninvested Cash" in Martin's doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPsMIunLnDvdsg6TSsd0PZb7jngojNpFlqnaX36WRp8/edit#> . Not really an analysis solution, but as a strategy, I personally use fava_investor <https://github.com/redstreet/fava_investor> to monitor uninvested cash. 3. Is there recommended time frame for "price" quotes? > Usually i open positions for 3-5 years, so not interested in daily or even > monthly fluctuations. > Do i understand it right that if i use > -"plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices"" (to get price from buy/sell > transactions) > -price my investments on 1st of each Quarter > -run compute_returns.py with -e DATE = 1st of each Quarter (basically same > cut off as date of last price quote) > then i will be fine and won't need any more price quotes > ? > After including the implicit_prices plugin, and running beangrow once, you will want to run: beangrow/beangrow/download_prices_from_file.py <your_returns_output_dir>/prices/prices.beancount and include the resulting price database in your source, and re-reun beangrow. Without that, beangrow uses the price values on the closest dates it can find, which in your case could be weeks or months off, which means your returns numbers will be off. The file generated above provides the only dates on which the prices matter to beangrow for your configuration. These are the start and end dates of your cashflow. Meaning, period opening and closing dates, and dates on which you bought/sold, IIRC. More detail here <https://github.com/beancount/beangrow/issues/7>. Enjoy! -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/80364a2f-5e9a-4038-bb0d-f21a553e5dc4n%40googlegroups.com.
