Why does the balance command show a "hanging" balance?
*$ ledger -f test.ledger balance*
$100.00
0.429485 ETH Assets
$100.00 Checking
0.429485 ETH Crypto
$-200.00 Equity:Opening Balances
$2.00 Expenses:Commissions
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$-98.00 <---- shouldn't this be $0.00?
0.429485 ETH <---- and why is this here?
On Sunday, October 7, 2018 at 7:16:48 AM UTC-7, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
> * [email protected] <javascript:> <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> [2018-10-07 07:12]:
> > It appears that buying commodities (crypto currencies in the following
> > example) debits them from Equity:Opening Balances.
>
> > 2018/10/01 Deposit
> > Assets:Checking $200.00
> >
> > *$ ledger -f test.ledger balance*
> >
> > $100.00
> > 0.429485 ETH Assets
> > $100.00 Checking
>
> > Is there a way to make ledger know that this commodity was purchased
> with
> > cash from *Assets:Checking*?
>
> Your own example shows that this is exactly what is happening already.
> You had $200 and now you have $100 in assets:checking.
>
> You just get confused my the equity command. Don't use that. This is
> only to create starting balances if you want to split your ledger
> file.
> https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#The-equity-command
>
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> https://www.cyrius.com/
>
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