Re: Closing lots when brokers report dissimilar cost basis (IBKR)

2024-05-13 Thread Justus Pendleton
On Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 9:13:46 PM UTC+7 nugget@gmail.com wrote: What would be the beancounter's way of handling this? I dont know anything better than manually resolving the "No position matches" errors one at the time by matching and correcting the cost bases. Since my personal investm

Re: Closing lots when brokers report dissimilar cost basis (IBKR)

2024-05-12 Thread nug get
Yes, IBKR actually confirmed exactly this to me: in the opening transactions, fees get included in the cost bases. not so in the closing transactions. This seems the standard, so rather a general thing than a IBKR-specific issue. What would be the beancounter's way of handling this? I dont kno

Re: Closing lots when brokers report dissimilar cost basis (IBKR)

2024-05-08 Thread Justus Pendleton
This is (probably, I've never looked at what FlexQuery reports) IBKR adding the transaction costs to the cost basis (which is how US tax accounting works). So when you buy something it will have a (very slightly) higher cost basis than whatever the order execution said. On Saturday, April 13, 2

Re: Closing lots when brokers report dissimilar cost basis (IBKR)

2024-04-13 Thread nug get
just to add, my pdf activity statements from IBKR also state those two different costs ("T.Price") in activity statements from 2022 and today, so the numbers are clearly coming from them On Saturday 13 April 2024 at 10:30:58 UTC+2 nug get wrote: > Hi everyone > I recently closed some positions

Closing lots when brokers report dissimilar cost basis (IBKR)

2024-04-13 Thread nug get
Hi everyone I recently closed some positions I held at InteractiveBrokers, for which i have a nice API-based ingestion pipeline to beancount. However I noted lots of "No position matches"-Errors. Turns out, the reported cost basis / Trade prices of the closed positions are very slightly off (b