I ran into a problem creating accounts for i.e precious metals.

Lets say I bought gold for USD 1000 and silver for USD 1000 one year ago.

Lets asume gold is now worth 1200 but silver 900.

While I have my purchase price in the accounts I would like to create a profit/loss account where I would create a transaction + 200 for gold and -100 for silver.

So my total in the precious metal account would be 2100 (1000+1000+200-100).

The problem is that if I create an asset account no negative numbers are allowed, the same goes with a saving account.

How can I bypass this problem, what kind of account(s) would I have to create to get positive and negative numbers into an asset account.

The easiest way I thought about was adding a minus - before the value but this does not work.

Thanks in advance
Tom

One solution would be to create an income account and add transactions to debit that account and credit your gold account. That would be something like this.

Hi Stan !

Okay, that workaround did actually work.
I´ve read that you are working on some protfolio things.
Will they include a true solution for my problem?

Cheers
Tom

I believe so but since the feature doesn't exist yet we will have to wait and see.