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Holding#calculate_avg_cost sums every trade with a positive quantity, so an asset moved in from elsewhere is counted as bought on the day it arrived. A coin acquired at 30k and transferred in at 60k reports a cost of 60k and no gain at all — a number that looks authoritative and is wrong.

Nothing here can know what a transferred asset cost: the purchase happened somewhere this app never saw.

This is the same judgement the method already makes, for the same stated reason. Its own comment:

# Return nil when no trades exist - cost basis is genuinely unknown
# Previously this fell back to current market price, which was misleading

Excluding transfers leaves the cost genuinely unknown rather than fabricated.

One transfer makes the whole position unknown, not just its own row. Averaging the purchases alone and applying that to every unit is the same fabrication in a quieter form: buy one at 30k, receive one, and the position would report 30k a unit for two units that did not cost it.

Balances and value are unaffected: they come from holdings, which providers import from the position itself rather than from trade history — verified before touching the calculation.

This reaches every integration that labels a movement as a transfer. Questrade journals already did; the self-custody wallets do as of #3153.

The stored cost basis, and a migration

Important

This PR ships a data migration (20260826090000_clear_transferred_position_cost_bases). It is irreversible by design.

The first pass only covered the fallback path, and review caught it. Holding#avg_cost returns a stored cost_basis before it ever reaches the guard above, so the guard was protecting only holdings that had nothing stored — and the stored value was itself fabricated, because both calculators counted transfers toward the running average and the materializer persisted the result as a calculated basis.

Fixed in the write path rather than the read one. Adding an exists? per holding to avg_cost would have reintroduced exactly the N+1 the stored value exists to avoid; clearing the stored value instead lets the read path fall through to the guard that was already there, at no per-holding cost.

  • Both calculators exclude transfers and mark the security's basis unknown — the forward one for good, the reverse one from the transfer's date onward, since purchases before it still stand on their own.
  • HoldingData carries cost_basis_unknown separately from a nil cost_basis, because the materializer treats them differently: nil means nothing computed, leave what is there — which is what left the stale figure standing — while unknown means this cannot be known, clear what is there.
  • A manual or provider basis survives. That is somebody asserting what the position cost them, which is precisely the thing the app cannot derive for a transfer.
  • The migration clears figures already stored. Positions heal on the next materialization anyway, but a manual or disconnected account may not materialize again for a long time, and a wrong cost basis is not visibly wrong.

What reviewers should look at

load_existing_holdings_map loads holdings that are locked, sourced, or provider-owned — so a row carrying a cost_basis with no cost_basis_source was invisible to it, and the clearing left it standing. Those are the rows least able to justify the number they hold, so they are the ones that most needed clearing. Now loaded too.

The regression test materializes first and relabels the trade as a transfer after, because that is the case that matters: a position already carrying a figure worked out before anyone knew the movement was a transfer. Asserting on a freshly built holding proves nothing, since the calculator gets it right from the start.

Testing

bin/rails test        7083 runs, 28492 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
rubocop               clean
brakeman              0 warnings

Model tests cover a transferred position having no cost basis, a purchased one still having it, an unlabelled purchase still counting, and a mixed position being unknowable. Materializer tests cover the stale figure being cleared, a provider figure surviving, a source-less figure being cleared, and an ordinary purchase still getting its basis.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Transfers no longer affect calculated investment cost basis.
    • Positions affected by transfers now display an unknown cost basis instead of an inaccurate value.
    • Existing calculated values are cleared when transfers make the basis unknown.
    • Manually locked, provider-supplied, and other authoritative cost-basis values are preserved.
    • Cost-basis status remains consistent across historical holding records.

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The change marks transfer-affected holdings with unknown cost basis. Forward and reverse calculators exclude transfer trades, materialization clears eligible calculated values, and a migration cleans existing records. Tests cover transfer scenarios.

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Transfer-aware cost basis

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transfer-aware cost-basis calculations
app/models/trade.rb, app/models/holding.rb, app/models/holding/forward_calculator.rb, app/models/holding/reverse_calculator.rb, app/models/holding/holding_data.rb
The Trade model defines TRANSFER_LABEL. Calculators exclude transfer trades and expose unknown cost-basis state.
Unknown basis propagation and materialization
app/models/holding/gapfillable.rb, app/models/holding/materializer.rb
Gap-filled holdings preserve cost_basis_unknown. Materialization clears calculated or source-less basis values and preserves locked, manual, and provider-sourced values.
Existing transferred-basis cleanup
db/migrate/20260826090000_clear_transferred_position_cost_bases.rb, db/schema.rb
The migration clears eligible historical cost bases for positions with prior transfers. The schema version is updated.
Transfer cost-basis validation
test/models/holding_test.rb, test/models/holding/materializer_test.rb
Tests cover transfer-only, mixed, unlabelled, purchase-only, manual, provider-sourced, and stale calculated cost-basis cases.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3caf9

The PR permanently clears stored cost-basis values for transferred positions, but it may also remove legitimate calculated values in some cases. That could permanently lose historical cost information and makes rollback difficult, so this risk needs explicit owner acceptance or a fix before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Trade
  participant HoldingCalculators
  participant Materializer
  participant HoldingsDatabase
  Trade->>HoldingCalculators: Provide transfer-labeled trades
  HoldingCalculators->>HoldingCalculators: Exclude transfers and mark basis unknown
  HoldingCalculators->>Materializer: Return cost_basis_unknown
  Materializer->>HoldingsDatabase: Clear eligible calculated or source-less basis
  HoldingsDatabase-->>Materializer: Preserve locked, manual, and provider-sourced basis
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Fix the Ruby indentation.

The body of test "a purchase still sets it" uses 8 spaces. Align Lines 502-506 with the file's 2-space indentation rule.

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In `@app/models/holding.rb`:
- Around line 293-302: Update Holding#avg_cost so transfer detection runs before
returning a stored cost_basis, ensuring any holding containing a
Trade::TRANSFER_LABEL trade returns nil. Preserve the existing calculation
behavior for holdings without transfers, and add a regression test covering a
transferred holding with an existing stored cost basis.

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Review on we-promise#3154, and the reviewers were right that the first pass only
covered half the path.

`Holding#avg_cost` returns a stored `cost_basis` before it ever calls
`calculate_avg_cost`, so the transfer guard was protecting only holdings
that had nothing stored. Worse, the stored value was itself wrong: both
calculators counted every positive-quantity trade toward the running
average, transfers included, and the materializer persisted that as a
`calculated` basis. A coin bought elsewhere at 30k and moved in at 60k
reported no gain at all, and said so with a figure that looks derived.

Fixed in the write path rather than the read one. Adding an `exists?` per
holding to `avg_cost` would have reintroduced exactly the N+1 the stored
value exists to avoid; clearing the stored value instead lets the read
path fall through to the guard that was already there.

Both calculators now exclude transfers from the average and mark the
security's basis unknown — the forward one for good, the reverse one from
the transfer's date onward, since the purchases before it still stand on
their own. `cost_basis_unknown` is carried separately from a nil
`cost_basis` because the materializer treats them differently: nil means
"nothing computed, leave what is there", unknown means "this cannot be
known, clear what is there".

A `manual` or `provider` basis survives. That is somebody asserting what
the position cost them, which is precisely the thing the app cannot derive
for a transfer.

The migration clears figures already stored. Positions heal on the next
materialization anyway, but a manual or disconnected account may not
materialize again for a long time, and the wrong number is not visibly
wrong.

The regression test materializes first and relabels after, because that is
the case that matters: a position already carrying a figure worked out
before anyone knew the movement was a transfer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GTNba5qE5NwzaHzbp27ye
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In `@app/models/holding/materializer.rb`:
- Around line 106-118: Update load_existing_holdings_map to include holdings
with a non-null cost_basis even when cost_basis_source is nil, so existing can
be found and clearable_calculated_basis? can clear stale calculated values. Add
a regression test covering a source-less stored basis that is later relabeled as
a transfer.

In `@db/migrate/20260825120000_clear_transferred_position_cost_bases.rb`:
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Review on we-promise#3154, and the reviewers were right that the first pass only
covered half the path.

`Holding#avg_cost` returns a stored `cost_basis` before it ever calls
`calculate_avg_cost`, so the transfer guard was protecting only holdings
that had nothing stored. Worse, the stored value was itself wrong: both
calculators counted every positive-quantity trade toward the running
average, transfers included, and the materializer persisted that as a
`calculated` basis. A coin bought elsewhere at 30k and moved in at 60k
reported no gain at all, and said so with a figure that looks derived.

Fixed in the write path rather than the read one. Adding an `exists?` per
holding to `avg_cost` would have reintroduced exactly the N+1 the stored
value exists to avoid; clearing the stored value instead lets the read
path fall through to the guard that was already there.

Both calculators now exclude transfers from the average and mark the
security's basis unknown — the forward one for good, the reverse one from
the transfer's date onward, since the purchases before it still stand on
their own. `cost_basis_unknown` is carried separately from a nil
`cost_basis` because the materializer treats them differently: nil means
"nothing computed, leave what is there", unknown means "this cannot be
known, clear what is there".

A `manual` or `provider` basis survives. That is somebody asserting what
the position cost them, which is precisely the thing the app cannot derive
for a transfer.

The migration clears figures already stored. Positions heal on the next
materialization anyway, but a manual or disconnected account may not
materialize again for a long time, and the wrong number is not visibly
wrong.

The regression test materializes first and relabels after, because that is
the case that matters: a position already carrying a figure worked out
before anyone knew the movement was a transfer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GTNba5qE5NwzaHzbp27ye
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buzzromain added a commit to buzzromain/sure that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
Review on we-promise#3154, and the reviewers were right that the first pass only
covered half the path.

`Holding#avg_cost` returns a stored `cost_basis` before it ever calls
`calculate_avg_cost`, so the transfer guard was protecting only holdings
that had nothing stored. Worse, the stored value was itself wrong: both
calculators counted every positive-quantity trade toward the running
average, transfers included, and the materializer persisted that as a
`calculated` basis. A coin bought elsewhere at 30k and moved in at 60k
reported no gain at all, and said so with a figure that looks derived.

Fixed in the write path rather than the read one. Adding an `exists?` per
holding to `avg_cost` would have reintroduced exactly the N+1 the stored
value exists to avoid; clearing the stored value instead lets the read
path fall through to the guard that was already there.

Both calculators now exclude transfers from the average and mark the
security's basis unknown — the forward one for good, the reverse one from
the transfer's date onward, since the purchases before it still stand on
their own. `cost_basis_unknown` is carried separately from a nil
`cost_basis` because the materializer treats them differently: nil means
"nothing computed, leave what is there", unknown means "this cannot be
known, clear what is there".

A `manual` or `provider` basis survives. That is somebody asserting what
the position cost them, which is precisely the thing the app cannot derive
for a transfer.

The migration clears figures already stored. Positions heal on the next
materialization anyway, but a manual or disconnected account may not
materialize again for a long time, and the wrong number is not visibly
wrong.

The regression test materializes first and relabels after, because that is
the case that matters: a position already carrying a figure worked out
before anyone knew the movement was a transfer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GTNba5qE5NwzaHzbp27ye
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buzzromain added a commit to buzzromain/sure that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
Review on we-promise#3154, and the reviewers were right that the first pass only
covered half the path.

`Holding#avg_cost` returns a stored `cost_basis` before it ever calls
`calculate_avg_cost`, so the transfer guard was protecting only holdings
that had nothing stored. Worse, the stored value was itself wrong: both
calculators counted every positive-quantity trade toward the running
average, transfers included, and the materializer persisted that as a
`calculated` basis. A coin bought elsewhere at 30k and moved in at 60k
reported no gain at all, and said so with a figure that looks derived.

Fixed in the write path rather than the read one. Adding an `exists?` per
holding to `avg_cost` would have reintroduced exactly the N+1 the stored
value exists to avoid; clearing the stored value instead lets the read
path fall through to the guard that was already there.

Both calculators now exclude transfers from the average and mark the
security's basis unknown — the forward one for good, the reverse one from
the transfer's date onward, since the purchases before it still stand on
their own. `cost_basis_unknown` is carried separately from a nil
`cost_basis` because the materializer treats them differently: nil means
"nothing computed, leave what is there", unknown means "this cannot be
known, clear what is there".

A `manual` or `provider` basis survives. That is somebody asserting what
the position cost them, which is precisely the thing the app cannot derive
for a transfer.

The migration clears figures already stored. Positions heal on the next
materialization anyway, but a manual or disconnected account may not
materialize again for a long time, and the wrong number is not visibly
wrong.

The regression test materializes first and relabels after, because that is
the case that matters: a position already carrying a figure worked out
before anyone knew the movement was a transfer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GTNba5qE5NwzaHzbp27ye
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calculate_avg_cost sums every trade with a positive quantity, so an asset moved
in from elsewhere is counted as bought on the day it arrived. A coin acquired at
30k and transferred in at 60k reports a cost of 60k and no gain at all — a
number that looks authoritative and is wrong.

Nothing here can know what a transferred asset cost: the purchase happened
somewhere this app never saw. Leaving the cost unknown is what the method
already does when it has nothing to work from, and for the same stated reason
the fallback to market price was removed from it: "Previously this fell back to
current market price, which was misleading."

Two things it would be easy to get wrong, and both are covered:

- **One transfer makes the whole position unknown**, not just its own row.
  Averaging the purchases alone and applying that to every unit is the same
  fabrication in a quieter form: buy one at 30k, receive one, and the position
  reports 30k a unit for two units that did not cost that.
- **Unlabelled purchases are preserved.** `!=` is NULL for a row with no label,
  so a naive exclusion would drop the ordinary trades that carry none — which
  is most of them. Hence IS DISTINCT FROM.

Balances and value are unaffected: they come from holdings, which providers
import from the position itself rather than from trade history.

This reaches every integration that labels a movement as a transfer. Questrade
journals already did; the self-custody wallets do as of we-promise#3153.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review on we-promise#3154, and the reviewers were right that the first pass only
covered half the path.

`Holding#avg_cost` returns a stored `cost_basis` before it ever calls
`calculate_avg_cost`, so the transfer guard was protecting only holdings
that had nothing stored. Worse, the stored value was itself wrong: both
calculators counted every positive-quantity trade toward the running
average, transfers included, and the materializer persisted that as a
`calculated` basis. A coin bought elsewhere at 30k and moved in at 60k
reported no gain at all, and said so with a figure that looks derived.

Fixed in the write path rather than the read one. Adding an `exists?` per
holding to `avg_cost` would have reintroduced exactly the N+1 the stored
value exists to avoid; clearing the stored value instead lets the read
path fall through to the guard that was already there.

Both calculators now exclude transfers from the average and mark the
security's basis unknown — the forward one for good, the reverse one from
the transfer's date onward, since the purchases before it still stand on
their own. `cost_basis_unknown` is carried separately from a nil
`cost_basis` because the materializer treats them differently: nil means
"nothing computed, leave what is there", unknown means "this cannot be
known, clear what is there".

A `manual` or `provider` basis survives. That is somebody asserting what
the position cost them, which is precisely the thing the app cannot derive
for a transfer.

The migration clears figures already stored. Positions heal on the next
materialization anyway, but a manual or disconnected account may not
materialize again for a long time, and the wrong number is not visibly
wrong.

The regression test materializes first and relabels after, because that is
the case that matters: a position already carrying a figure worked out
before anyone knew the movement was a transfer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GTNba5qE5NwzaHzbp27ye
Follow-up on the same review. `load_existing_holdings_map` loaded holdings
that were locked, sourced, or provider-owned — so a row carrying a
`cost_basis` with no `cost_basis_source` was invisible to it. The clearing
then saw no existing holding and left the figure standing, which meant the
rows least able to justify the number they hold were the ones that kept it.

The migration takes `[7.2]` to match `schema.rb` and the other 398
migrations, rather than the `[8.0]` I had written.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GTNba5qE5NwzaHzbp27ye
`20260825120000` is already taken by `add_consumed_amount_to_goals` on the
goals stack. Two migrations sharing a version is not a merge conflict —
`schema_migrations` is keyed by it, so whichever landed second would be
recorded as already run and skipped in silence. For a data migration that
means transferred positions quietly keeping the cost basis this branch
exists to clear.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016GTNba5qE5NwzaHzbp27ye
@buzzromain
buzzromain force-pushed the fix/transfer-cost-basis branch from 669b0a2 to a544da9 Compare August 26, 2026 17:00
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