Trading one coin for another - spot price

[jk-newbie]

I'm working through the process of manually configuring my input files. In the process I am getting a warning that leads me to this question: If one were to buy ETH using BTC, a taxable event, what value does one put in the 'spot price' column of the 'manual_in.csv file? I would have thought it would be the price of BTC at the time of sale thus representing my basis. But in doing so I get the warning "crypto_in * spot_price != fiat_in_no_fee". And forcing spot_price to equivalent USD would likely still throw the same warning/error. Please advise.

The larger question is how does one prepare the csv files for coin-to-coin trading? Thanks

[eprbell]

Hi, are you using DaLI + RP2 or just RP2? RP2 conversions are covered in the RP2 FAQ. Not sure about the warning: can you provide transactions details (but be sure to read this first before posting any personal data)?

[jk-newbie]

Operator error on my part - I was looking in the DaLI docs, not the RP2 docs for how to manage coin-to-coin trades. My compliments on what appears to be a very impressive non-trivial effort. As a side note, I've been using the manual input method. I appreciate that you've included & maintained this option, though I will say it has been tedious dealing with how different brokers book their fees and getting the entries correct. Once again, thanks for this open source tool.

[eprbell]

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