Conversion of coins in your local currency
In order to calculate your gain and tax, all your trades that are not in your FIAT currency, must be converted into your FIAT currency at the time of the transaction.
In order to calculate your gain and tax, all your trades that are not in your FIAT currency, must be converted into your FIAT currency at the time of the transaction.
We strongly recommend to use the 'Best Prices' setting e.g. on the realized gains page or the tax report page.
Regarding two examples for Best Prices see below.
Best Prices (recommended): will convert in this order:
1. FIAT currencies (USD, EUR, GBP...)
2. Crypto currencies and commodities based on their market cap
Transaction Prices: will convert the 1st part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Counterpart Prices: will convert the 2nd part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Buy Prices: will always convert the buy part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Sell Prices: will always convert the sell part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Example 1: Buy 1 BTC for 3000 USD (assuming USD is your FIAT currency)
- Best Prices: will use 3000 USD (no conversion here), since USD has a higher priority than BTC
- Transaction Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD
- Counterpart Prices: will use 3000 USD (no conversion here)
- Buy Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD
- Sell Prices: will use 3000 USD (no conversion here)
Example 2: Buy 60 ETH for 1 BTC (assuming USD is your FIAT currency)
- Best Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds), since BTC has a higher priority than ETH
- Transaction Prices: will convert 60 ETH into USD as the ETH cost base and will convert 1 BTC into USD as the BTC proceeds value
- Counterpart Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD as the ETH cost base and will convert 60 ETH into USD for the BTC proceeds value
- Buy Prices: will convert 60 ETH to USD (as cost base and proceeds)
- Sell Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds)
Example 3: Buy 1 BTC for 60 ETH (assuming USD is your FIAT currency)
- Best Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds), since BTC has a higher priority than ETH
- Transaction Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD as the BTC cost base and will convert 60 ETH into USD as the ETH proceeds value
- Counterpart Prices: will convert 60 ETH into USD as the BTC cost base and will convert 1 BTC into USD as the ETH proceeds value
- Buy Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds)
- Sell Prices: will convert 60 ETH into USD (as cost base and proceeds
Best Prices (recommended): will convert in this order:
1. FIAT currencies (USD, EUR, GBP...)
2. Crypto currencies and commodities based on their market cap
Transaction Prices: will convert the 1st part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Counterpart Prices: will convert the 2nd part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Buy Prices: will always convert the buy part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Sell Prices: will always convert the sell part of your trade-pair into FIAT
Example 1: Buy 1 BTC for 3000 USD (assuming USD is your FIAT currency)
- Best Prices: will use 3000 USD (no conversion here), since USD has a higher priority than BTC
- Transaction Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD
- Counterpart Prices: will use 3000 USD (no conversion here)
- Buy Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD
- Sell Prices: will use 3000 USD (no conversion here)
Example 2: Buy 60 ETH for 1 BTC (assuming USD is your FIAT currency)
- Best Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds), since BTC has a higher priority than ETH
- Transaction Prices: will convert 60 ETH into USD as the ETH cost base and will convert 1 BTC into USD as the BTC proceeds value
- Counterpart Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD as the ETH cost base and will convert 60 ETH into USD for the BTC proceeds value
- Buy Prices: will convert 60 ETH to USD (as cost base and proceeds)
- Sell Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds)
Example 3: Buy 1 BTC for 60 ETH (assuming USD is your FIAT currency)
- Best Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds), since BTC has a higher priority than ETH
- Transaction Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD as the BTC cost base and will convert 60 ETH into USD as the ETH proceeds value
- Counterpart Prices: will convert 60 ETH into USD as the BTC cost base and will convert 1 BTC into USD as the ETH proceeds value
- Buy Prices: will convert 1 BTC into USD (as cost base and proceeds)
- Sell Prices: will convert 60 ETH into USD (as cost base and proceeds
The reason for the difference of asset values (cost base) is the averaged weighted price from our price sources: Fiat, coin and commodities price sources, individual exchange price, change Fiat account Currency. They will never be the same for two coins. The market price through all exchanges in EUR for asset A will never match the asset value for Asset B: Coin Price/Value Does Not Seem Correct.
And using "best price" the order is described above which value is chosen for gain/loss calculation. So if you buy BTC for 1000 EUR then those 1000 EUR are taken even if the market price fro BTC was 1050 EUR at this time.
And if you exchange/trade/convert BTC vs. ETH then the BTC value is taken due to the higher market cap of BTC.
