FIFO mode for Stock Sell

[Ghanashyam Prabhu]

I have the following in my beancount file. However it seems like I will always have to indicate sell transactions against an buy lot by filling in the exact price that lot was bought at. 

Doesn't bean count support FIFO mode where whenever there is a SELL transaction beancount figures the lot that was bought first and executes a SELL on that transaction? If not, can you please suggest how are folks handling these SELL transactions especially if you have a long ledger files?

2020-01-07 * "BUY" "VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET ETF: VTI"

  Assets:US:Schwab:ETF:VTI      12.0000 VTI {164.1090 USD}

  Assets:US:Schwab:Cash

2020-01-17 * "BUY" "VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET ETF: VTI"

  Assets:US:Schwab:ETF:VTI       6.0000 VTI {168.6290 USD}

  Assets:US:Schwab:Cash

2020-03-18 * "SELL" "VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET ETF: VTI"

  Assets:US:Schwab:ETF:VTI     -24.0000 VTI {} @ 125.9050 USD

  Assets:US:Schwab:Cash         3021.65 USD

  Income:US:Schwab:PnL

Thanks

Ghanashyam

[Patrick Ruckstuhl]

Hi,

Did you indicate Fifo when opening the account?

2020-01-01 open Assets:US:Schwab:ETF:VTI VTI "FIFO"

Regards,

Patrick

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[Ghanashyam Prabhu]

Thanks, I will try that!

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[Red S]

You might find it much faster to do a quick search in the docs, which are very well written and have a great UI. Eg:
https://beancount.github.io/docs/search.html?q=Fifo

[Ghanashyam Prabhu]

Wonderful, that worked like a charm.

Silly me, should have attempted the github doc search. I was using a Google Search and then the results somehow pointed to 404 on the docs.

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 10:51, Red S <redst...@gmail.com> wrote:

You might find it much faster to do a quick search in the docs, which are very well written and have a great UI. Eg:
https://beancount.github.io/docs/search.html?q=Fifo

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