I have never gotten -V to work as I thought it should.  I think it should
just show the $ balance after each transaction.  For me it always adds in
extra commodities with the dollar balance.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:40 PM Gautam Mohan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Wow, thanks so much! It was under my nose the whole time.
>
> On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 10:05:19 PM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>>
>> * Gautam Mohan <[email protected]> [2019-01-08 18:57]:
>> > Sorry if this is a bit of a newbie post. I have an account with
>> > multiple commodities (stocks) representing my portfolio and am
>> > wondering if there is a way to display the portfolio performance
>> > over time. Similar to how the "register" command shows the account
>> > balance changing over time, is there an analogous way to use a price
>> > database to generate a similar view of how the portfolio's total
>> > market value changes with time?
>>
>> It sounds like you want -V
>>
>> > I looked at the manual section 8.2.7 (Commodity Reporting), but
>> > there didn't seem to be an option to show the commodity valuation on
>> > a certain day, as the market value flag (-V) only shows the
>> > "Current" market value, which as far as I can tell, is the newest
>> > entry in the price database.
>>
>> If you use "ledger reg -V" it will show how the value changes over
>> time.
>>
>> > Is there any way to pass arbitrary dates to these options?
>>
>> -p "from 2015-09-07 until 2017-03-04"
>>
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