Question About Price DB

[David T.]

David C.--

Actually, I am referring to adding Mutual fund transactions from the Mutual Fund account (i.e.-- not a currency account). It would seem obvious to me that when I am adding a transaction that assigns a value to the commodity as of a given date, that this information would go into the Price DB, but I do not see that occurring in my own situation.

Your comments here and on the other thread demonstrate to me how little of the software I know about; I do not recognize most of the actions you describe.

David (T.)

On Feb 3, 2013, at 3:36 PM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 2/3/2013 3:38 PM, David T. wrote:
>> Hi there--
>> 
>> I am going through some VERY old mutual fund holdings I have, and I have noticed a behavior that appears odd to me.
>> 
>> If I am entering a transaction into the register, my practice is to fill out the number of shares involved and a dollar amount. From those two data points, GnuCash calculates the share price, and I head happily on to something else.
>> 
>> I would have expected that this transaction entry would have resulted in an entry into the Price DB for that commodity on the date of my transaction, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
>> 
>> A couple of questions:
>> 
>> 1) Is this an accurate assessment, or am I mis-reading things somehow?
>> 2) If they aren't going in, why not?
>> 3) If these entries aren't going into the Price DB, does this affect value calculations over time? I am specifically considering the Advanced Portfolio report, where I think that it does.
>> 
>> TIA,
>> David
>> 
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> 
> David,
> 
> You have hit on one of the "Easter Eggs"  that can follow from good
> documentation of stock transactions that I am starting to accumulate
> information on in the thread I just started.
> 
> It seems that if a stock transaction is edited from a "Currency" account
> it is possible to trigger the creation of a stock price for the
> transaction edit date, with the caveat that GnuCash will try to set the
> price for that edit date to the same as the last existing entry in the
> price editor.  The trick is that GnuCash thinks that you are entering a
> currency trade.  You will get a "Transfer Funds" pop-up to enter an
> exchange rate, which will be preset to the last entry in the price
> database.  There is an option to enter the value that you really want by
> selecting "To Amount" and entering the fraction number of
> shares/Dollars(or your currency).  Decimals are ok, Gnucash will convert
> the ratio to a weird fraction when it enters the data into the price
> database.
> 
> When I say "Currency" account that usually means the brokerage account
> that is already associated to one of the lines in your stock trade
> transaction.  Note the comment in my thread that if you want to actually
> edit the number of shares or price in a line associated to a stock
> account, you must press Enter to complete the currency edit that you
> just did, then right click on the security account line that you just
> messed with, and select "Jump" to the security account to actually
> adjust the number of shares and price. 
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> David C
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