Quote from: jt42 on August 18, 2017, 08:48:32 AM

Quote from: Dario3000 on August 16, 2017, 08:38:24 PM

Quote from: EveryDayArms on August 16, 2017, 01:58:11 PM

Hi,

New to Cointracking and absolutely love it so far. Assuming all goes will with my investments I'll be purchasing a license soon.

Had a quick question regarding the 'Trade Value' menu when editing a transaction. How is the purchase value and sale value calculated? Where are these from? I've noticed pretty strange numbers, and pretty big differences between the two (for example, selling some NEO for USDT shows a purchase value of $630 and a sale value of $690). This causes the realized gain to be a loss of $40-50 for example, whereas in reality (looking at my exchange) it was a profit of ~$20 as the NEO was sold for $692.

I've looked at many of my other coins on the Trade Prices page, and it shows losses for a bunch, whereas I know they were gains. Even selling 1 ETH for USD shows the incorrect prices. Is there any easier way to fix this rather than keeping track of the USD purchase/sell price for each transaction, and entering it in manually after the fact?

Thanks!

Hey,

You can set these values on the Enter Coins page when entering or editing your entries.
If you do not set them, CoinTracking will calculate the value automatically based on historical coin prices from coinmarketcap, worldcoinindex, cryptococoincharts and some more.

Each exchange has different prices, and the exchange price may not be the average price we use.
I would recommend to change the values if the spread is too high.

Best,
Dario

You really should use the price of the coin based on the exchange in which it was traded and not some averaged historical coin price. Or are you saying this only pertains to manual entries and not imported entries?

This is for imported entries, not manual entries.

I was wondering about this too - the exported excel sheet from the exchange contains all prices (if some coin was traded for USD), so I'm not sure why some averaged coin price across multiple exchanges is used rather than the price in the spreadsheet. I do quite a bit of daytrading with not very volatile altcoins, so this averaged price is usually never correct.