Mutual fund security code

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
10 Jan 2002 00:01:53 -0500


I think you might also want the price-source URL as a part of
the Security tuple.

-derek

linas@linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> Hmm, maybe we should start a CDDB-like service for fund ID's.  
> 
> I could run a little database on www.gnucash.org that contained a
> smattering of fund names and ID numbers.   It shouldn't be hard to write
> the extension to gnucash to query the server for an ID, given the fund
> name.  Say something like the following screenshot:
> 
>     You asked for 'AGF Canadian Aggressive'.  
>     Did you mean 'AGF Canadian Aggressive All-Cap Fund', 
>     fund number 1726 on www.agf.com, 
>     recent price is $CAD 42.42?
>            ()yes () no
> 
> If there's a list of more than one match, then there might be several
> choices displayed.
> 
> ==============
> 
> But of course, for this to work, we need lots of good data in the
> database.  And for that, we need feedback.  After a user has set things
> up, and has verified that they're getting good prices back, they could
> hit a 'send-to' button, and have the association emailed into the
> www.gnucash.org fund-id server.  Given the tens of thousands or more
> of gnucash users, the database shoulf fill up pretty quick.
> 
> Anyone care to write the code to do this ??
> 
> --linas
> 
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