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@ -1525,18 +1525,20 @@ $ hledger print --infer-costs -B
Notes: Notes:
For `--infer-costs` to work, currently there must be For `--infer-costs` to work, an exchange must consist of four postings:
1. a pair of equity postings, next to one another 1. two non-equity postings
2. they must be to account(s) declared with type `V`/`Conversion`; 2. two equity postings, next to one another
or if no such accounts are declared, accounts named 2. the equity accounts must be declared, with account type `V`/`Conversion`
`equity:conversion`, `equity:trade`, `equity:trading` or subaccounts of these (or if they are not declared, they must be named
3. they must exactly match the amounts of two non-conversion postings. `equity:conversion`, `equity:trade`, `equity:trading` or subaccounts of these)
3. the equity postings' amounts must exactly match the non-equity postings' amounts
Multiple such exchanges can coexist within a single transaction, should you need that.
When inferring cost, the order of postings matters: When inferring cost, the order of postings matters:
the cost is added to the first of the non-equity postings involved in the exchange, the cost is added to the first of the non-equity postings involved in the exchange,
in the commodity of the last non-equity posting involved in the exchange. in the commodity of the last non-equity posting involved in the exchange.
If you don't want to write your postings in the required order, If you don't want to write your postings in the required order,
the alternative is not to infer cost; instead, use explicit cost notation, the alternative is not to infer cost; instead, use explicit cost notation,
omitting the equity postings, inferring them later with --infer-equity if needed. omitting the equity postings, inferring them later with --infer-equity if needed.