I'm trying to figure out how to model stock options in ledger. My goals are
that
(1) individual lots are tracked separately by the grant price, and
(2) I can track the potential value in a sane way.
This seems to work for (1) when I exercise for cash:
2014/06/01 Stock options - acquire
Assets:Stock Options:Foo 4 FOO_OPTIONS {$100} @ $0
2014/12/01 Stock options - exercise
Assets:Stock Options:Foo -4 FOO_OPTIONS {$100} @ $0
Assets:Stock:Foo 4 FOO @ $100
Income:Transient Stock $-400
2014/12/01 Stock options - sale
Assets:Stock:Foo -4 FOO {$100} @ $200
Income:Capital Gains $-400
Income:Transient Stock $400
Assets:Checking $400
But I can't seem to figure out a way to track what the exercise would be
worth at, say, August in my example. I tried adding a pricesdb value for
FOO_OPTIONS of $150, but then it thinks I have $600 rather than $200,
because it doesn't account for the $100 exercise price. All the transaction
variants I've tried for FOO_OPTIONS {$} "rebase" the option, which is not
what I'm hoping to do.
I'm coming from Gnucash. What I did there was to track an account "Stock
options" in dollars, and just do "change in value" transactions monthly.
This achieved #2, but not #1.
Any suggestions appreciated. Maybe some magic with virtual transactions to
track #1 and #2 separately?
Thanks
-Eric
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