prioritize pricedb over last purchase price?

[Jim Robinson]

Hi folks,

Is there a way for us to tell ledger to prefer the pricedb value over the @@ purchase value in an entry?

My situation here is that yesterday I made a purchase of an ETF on the secondary market and while my pricedb has the end-of-day price of the ETF ledger is preferring my purchase price (which was higher than the end-of-day price in the pricedb file).

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Jim Robinson <jim.ro...@gmail.com> [2021-03-24 06:26]:

> Is there a way for us to tell ledger to prefer the pricedb value
> over the @@ purchase value in an entry?

No, but you could turn the @@ purchase value into a (@@) virtual cost,
which means it won't be entered into the pricedb.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Virtual-posting-costs

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Martin Michlmayr
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[Jim Robinson]

That works for me, thank you!