A wealth figure that ignores the house is not a wealth figure. Assets
without a market feed - a house, a car, a private loan - are now added
by hand on the Wealth page with a stated value, a currency and the day
the estimate was made; a negative value records a liability. They are
registry entities in assets.finance like everything else, join the
per-currency totals immediately, and a currency held only in an asset
earns its own line.
A position was a share count. An instrument now carries a market symbol and
the last close fetched for it, so Wealth and the dashboard report cash plus
market value instead of cash alone.
The symbol is chosen by hand and never derived: one ISIN lists on several
exchanges in different currencies, and a price from the wrong listing misstates
wealth without failing any check. The refresh refuses a quote whose currency
differs from the instrument's, keeps the previous quote when a symbol cannot be
priced, and counts an instrument with no symbol as unpriced - naming it in a
check and leaving it out of every total, because cost is not value. The quote
belongs to the job: saving an instrument can neither set nor erase it, and
changing the symbol discards it.
Two things the provider forced. It answers HTTP 429 to every request whose
User-Agent names a programming language, so the client identifies as a browser;
without that header the first call of the day fails. Its closes are 32-bit
floats widened to 64 - 165.26 arrives as 165.25999450683594 - so a figure is
rounded to seven significant digits, which is what 24 mantissa bits carry;
eight would have stored 165.25999 as a price.
Accepted quotes are written in one commit against a revision re-read after the
fetches, and nothing is committed when no quote changed. The automatic run
starts shortly after launch and repeats daily on its own timer, so a sync
backoff cannot delay it and prices arrive with no bank connected.
Verified against live quotes end to end: 80 shares at 125.45 and 40 at 165.26
on 6000.00 cash report 22646.40 with one holding named as unpriced; giving that
holding a symbol through the UI moves the figure to 23530.50, and a second
refresh leaves the revision untouched.
An account now has a kind, and an investment account holds positions as well as
cash. A broker row is not a new entity: it is a bank fact with an optional
position leg, so deduplication, the journal, fact immutability, the DuckDB
projection and the transactions view carry it unchanged. Facts.Amount stays the
cash leg and is zero on the rows that move only a position.
Scalable Capital exports are recognized locally as a fourth format, read by
their own parser because a column mapping cannot describe them: the amount
column is settled cash on a cash row, a gross to be netted on a trade, and a
position valuation that must never touch cash on a corporate action or a depot
transfer. A cash amount is already net of the tax the broker withheld or
refunded, so that tax is recorded on the fact and never subtracted a second
time; treating a corporate action's valuation as money conjures cash, and a
depot switch would do it once per instrument. The share column is signed only
for those two types, so buys and sells take their direction from the type. Every
security row is checked against shares times price at 128-bit width, because a
lost decimal separator survives every other check. An unknown status, type or
assetType, a foreign currency, a missing ISIN, or one failed check rejects the
whole file with the record number.
Instruments live in instruments.finance, keyed by ISIN with an ID derived from
it, so re-importing never registers a security twice. One ISIN appears under
several broker descriptions over the years and sometimes under the ISIN itself:
the most recent real description names it, and an import never renames one that
already exists. A broker also reuses a single reference across every leg of one
event, so transaction identity includes the event and its instrument.
domain.Fallback returns kind "investment" for any fact carrying a position leg,
so no broker row reaches the sign-based branch. That single rule is what stops
an unmatched deposit from counting as income and a broker fee from counting as
household spending; the monthly PRIME fee and its matching credit now cancel in
clearing:investments with no configuration at all. Investment rows are excluded
from spending analytics, from bulk reclassification and from the model, exactly
as transfers are.
Equal competing transfers are paired instead of skipped. Every connected
component of the candidate graph is a complete bipartite graph between two fixed
accounts at one amount and currency, so every pairing produces the same
accounts, kinds and postings and only the displayed counterpart differs.
Refusing to choose was the expensive option: both legs fell through to the
sign-based fallback and appeared as spending and income that never happened.
Pairing follows the nearest booking date, then the transaction ID, so iteration
order decides nothing. POST /api/transactions/{id}/transfer rewrites the old and
the new pair in one commit, because reciprocity is validated and a half-applied
link is an invalid dataset, and the matcher now skips any record classified
manually so a hand-made link or unlink outlives the next import.
Wealth reports each account's cash and positions from the journal rather than
the index, with named checks - row arithmetic, cash never negative, holdings
never negative - because it exists to be compared against the figures a broker
shows on its own screen. A negative holding means the imported history is
partial. Share counts are exact to eight places; a reinvested distribution
quoted to six is rounded to money's four and the residue is reported rather than
hidden. Market prices, market value, net worth over time, FIFO lot accounting,
realised gains and currency conversion are deliberately absent.
Three defects made new connections silently vanish while removed
accounts returned:
- A single shared account the journal cannot represent (securities or
card entries without IBAN, stable identification or currency) aborted
the entire consent. Usable accounts are now linked and the rest
counted and reported.
- A consent that linked nothing was stored, redirected as success and
later reaped by session recovery. It now fails with the reason.
- Callback failures rendered a bare JSON error page and were never
logged. They now log and redirect into the app with the reason shown.
- Deleting an account left its session binding, so the next connect or
sync recovered the binding and re-added the account. Account deletion
now releases bindings, consents and cursors before committing.
Lars Nolden