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Idea for dealing with wash sales... I need this now!
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blais committed Jul 15, 2014
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- (reports revamp) Write a generic test that simply enumerates all the
reports and invokes them with their default values. This should extend
automatically when new reports are created.
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* Plugins
** Wash Sales

- (script) Write a script to check whether an account's trades are subject to
the wash sale rule (I need this for Google stock):

"An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule that prohibits a taxpayer from
claiming a loss on the sale or trade of a security in a wash sale. The rule
defines a wash sale as one that occurs when an individual sells or trades a
security at a loss, and within 30 days before or after this sale, buys a
“substantially identical” stock or security, or acquires a contract or
option to do so. A wash sale also results if an individual sells a security,
and the spouse or a company controlled by the individual buys a
substantially equivalent security."

The wash sales amount should be reported in an account, and should be
calculated as a plugin.

** Strict Unused Pad Directives

- The validation check that pushes an error on unused pad directives should
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