Stock "price" transactions

[Dave Peticolas]

Bill Carlson writes:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:50:38AM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > 
> > I am going to hold off on putting this patch in because I think it
> > needs more discussion. Our plans for stock prices in GnuCash 2.0 are
> > to store them separately from the register (and from accounts), and to
> > use them for reporting/graphing purposes, but not to store them as
> > 'real' transactions the way they are in GnuCash 1.4. Part of the old
> > format import process would be to convert these old price transactions
> > into entries in the price database.
> 
> Fine, except do you have any idea of when some of this support will be
> put in?  If I (and I suspect others) are going to realistically try
> to work on the new stuff, this is necessary.  
> 
> I would point out that one of the main reasons I use gnucash (or any 
> such program) is to keep track of "where I am" financially (with history).
> This means that eventually things like the account table gnucash shows 
> on startup need to reflect the "current" value of a stock, and there 
> need to be mechanisms to produce a history of that.  I can do all that 
> just fine with the current mechanisms.  Just want to make sure that 
> whatever you are thinking of for this area reflects these "requirements".
> 
> One more thought on this.  Whatever "register" display you have for
> stocks should (I think) reflect the values of the stock at that time
> of each given transaction.  I think that means that if you don't
> have the "price transactions" the redisplay mechanism would need to
> consult the "price database" every time you opened/refreshed the 
> "register" for the stock account.

Certainly. We also plan to have reports & graphs for price & portfolio
history, easily accessible.

dave