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The main challenge of accounting for investments and trading in PTA is tracking lots and disposing (selling) them in the right order.
Here are several methods:
1. **Lot subaccounts** (works with any PTA app).
1. **Lot subaccounts**
Each lot is given an explicit subaccount, entries are created manually.
Simple and flexible, works in any PTA app.
- hledger/ledger example: https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/repost-example-calculating-uk-capital-gains-with-ledger/227/2
2. **Lot syntax** (works with Beancount or Ledger).
2. **Lot syntax**
The app has special syntax and support for lots.
Convenient, has restrictions. Available in Beancount and Ledger.
- Beancount: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F8IJ_7fMHZ75XFPocMokLxVZczAhrBRBVN9uMhQFCZ4/edit#heading=h.katmw1lwm4yh
- Ledger: https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Buying-and-Selling-Stock
- [docker-finance](https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto/docker-finance)
([discussion](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/docker-finance-modern-accounting-for-the-power-user/189))
does many things, some trading related. Runs hledger and hledger-flow.
3. **Lot entry-generating tools**.
Add-on tools help generate lot-aware entries.
- [lotter](https://src.d10.dev/lotter/doc/tip/README.md) detects lots from ordinary transactions, adds lot information to buy/sell entries. (Works with Ledger.)
- [hledger-lots](https://github.com/edkedk99/hledger-lots) detects lots from ordinary transactions, helps make buy/sell entries. (Works with hledger.)
- [hledger-move](https://hledger.org/scripts.html#hledger-move) is a lower-level tool to help make trading (sell) entries. (Works with hledger-compatible journals.)
- [lotter](https://src.d10.dev/lotter/doc/tip/README.md) detects lots from ordinary transactions, adds lot information to buy/sell entries. Works with Ledger.
- [hledger-lots](https://github.com/edkedk99/hledger-lots) detects lots from ordinary transactions, helps make buy/sell entries. Works with hledger.
- [hledger-move](https://hledger.org/scripts.html#hledger-move) is a lower-level tool to help make trading (sell) entries. Works with hledger-compatible journals.
- [docker-finance](https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto/docker-finance)
([discussion](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/docker-finance-modern-accounting-for-the-power-user/189))
does many things, some trading related. Runs hledger and hledger-flow.
Sometimes calculating average cost basis is needed, and this another challenge, currently not well supported.