# http://hledger.org/journal.html#market-prices # http://hledger.org/hledger.html#market-value # 1. Market prices are ignored by -B. hledger -f- bal -NB <<< P 2011/01/01 € $1.35 2011/01/01 expenses:foreign €100 assets >>> €-100 assets €100 expenses:foreign >>>=0 # 2. Market prices are used by bal -V. # Market prices for other commodities are not used. # Nor are transaction prices. hledger -f- bal -N -V <<< P 2011/01/01 € $1.35 P 2011/01/01 GBP $1.35 2011/01/01 (expenses:foreign) €100 @ $1.20 >>> $135.00 expenses:foreign >>>=0 # 3. Market prices in the future are not ignored. #453 hledger -f- bal -N -V <<< P 2000/1/1 $ €1.20 P 3000/1/1 $ €1.30 3000/01/02 (a) $100 >>> €130.00 a >>>=0 # 4. The market prices in effect at the report end date are used. # The location of price directives does not matter. # If multiple directives have the same date, the last parsed is used. hledger -f- bal -N -V a -e 3000/2 <<< P 3000/3/1 $ €1.40 3000/01/01 (a) $100 3000/03/03 (b) $100 P 2000/1/1 $ €1.20 P 3000/1/1 $ €1.35 P 3000/1/1 $ €1.30 >>> €130.00 a >>>=0 # 5. Again, this time there are prices later than the journal data and # an explicit report end date brings them into play. hledger -f- bal -N -V a -e 3000/2 <<< P 3000/1/1 $ €1.10 P 3000/2/1 $ €1.30 3000/01/01 (a) $100 >>> €130.00 a >>>=0 # 6. Market prices interact with D directives and with amount style canonicalisation. #131 hledger -f- balance -V <<< D 1000.00 H ; declare a default commodity named H P 2015/08/14 EEEE 41.66 ; default commodity H is used for these market prices P 2015/08/14 FFFF 74.62 P 2015/08/14 GGGG 32.39 2015/08/15 a 2.4120 EEEE @@ 100 ; default commodity H is used for these transaction prices a 0.3350 FFFF @@ 25 a 0.7718 GGGG @@ 25 b ; implicit balancing amount is in the cost commodity, H >>> 150.48 H a -150.00 H b -------------------- 0.48 H >>>=0