Updating Exchange rate and Stock price

[Derek Atkins]

Thierry Lelièvre <thierrylelievre at free.fr> writes:

> Thanks,
>
> I'm going to try the --add-price-quotes options :-9

Note that you have to run this when you don't already have a running
copy of gnucash with your data file open....

> Concerning the update of the exchange rate, I would like to know, when I
> travel abroad and pay for a service in CAD (ex : car rent), how much I
> will be charged on my account in EUROS.

Uh, I don't think you can easily do this.  For one thing, you may have
a slightly different exchange rate because the bank may apply a fee
to the exchange.  So using downloaded rates isn't necessarily accurate.
Also, the exchange rate is encoded *in* the transaction...  So you'd
need to modify each transaction to change the exchange rate....

> I wonder if there is way to get the current exchange rate between
> currencies from a financial news website for instance.

Yes, there are.

> Thierry 

-derek

> Le lun 09/08/2004 à 20:50, Derek Atkins a écrit :
>> Run gnucash --add-price-quotes
>> 
>> It should get you your quotes.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "update the exchange rate"...  Do you
>> mean update it in the pricedb so it has a more reasonable idea of what
>> to guess the next time you use it?  Or do you want to change the
>> exchange rate of existing transactions?
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> Thierry Lelièvre <thierrylelievre at free.fr> writes:
>> 
>> > Hello Gnucash users,
>> >
>> > Does anybody know if there is a way or an existing script to
>> > automatically update : 1. exchange rate and 2. stock prices ?
>> >
>> > 1. I use an account in EURO to pay bills in CAD
>> > 2. I would like to know what my portofolio is worth, esp. as I pay a
>> > fixed monthly payment, how many shares of mutual funds I get for this
>> > payment.
>> >
>> > Many thanks to all answers
>> >
>> > Thierry
>> >
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