Help with downloading stock prices

[Andrew Moulson]

Many thanks. That has it working fine.

On 01 February 2013 18:38:52, Fred Bone wrote:
> On 31 January 2013 at 19:57, Andrew Moulson said:
>
>> As a newcomer to the excellent GnuCash I'd be grateful for some help here.
>>
>> I have installed Active Perl 5.16.2 32-bit on my Windows 7 machine, and
>> have then run the Install Online Price Retrieval module.
>>
>> I am not sure of the settings I should use  in setting up a new security.
>>
>> For example, I would like to be able to collect the price of say /JP
>> Morgan Claverhouse Investment Trust//plc/, which is quoted on the London
>> Stock Exchange, with code JCH.
>>
>> What settings should I use for in the Security Editor screen? Which Type
>> should I select from the dropdown list: EUREX or another? Then in the
>> Quote Source Information would I do better with a single source, and if so
>> Trustnet, UK or Yahoo Europe? At the moment whatever combination I have
>> tried all I get is "Unable to retrieve quote."
>
> Set type to LSE (you can overtype the dropdown box)
> Symbol is suffixed with ".L" for LSE quotes - so here, JCH.L
> Source yahoo_europe seems to fetch it OK.
>