[GNC-dev] Finance::Quote and the Toronto Stock Exchange

[gnu Gord]

Here is a link to a Wikipedia article with a bit more detail about the TMX
Group... if you're interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMX_Group


On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 5:16 PM Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Am 27.11.22 um 01:21 schrieb gnu Gord:
> > I can only offer speculations as I was not the one to change the name of
> > the module and don't know the reasoning behind it. I suspect it has
> > something to do with where the stock quotes can be found. The website and
> > organization represented there is called The TMX and it seems to
> encompass
> > several exchanges. Have a look here:
> > https://www.tmx.com/tmx-group/tmx-group-companies
> >
> > The Toronto Stock Exchange is still called The TSX but this website
> > (frontend?) can also get quotes from the TSX Venture Exchange and the
> > Montreal Exchange, to name a couple. In fact, if you append "*:us*" to a
> > stock symbol it will get quotes from the NYSE in USD.
>
> Interesting, perhaps use as description then
> TMX (Toronto, Montreal, …), CA
>
> Should we add a section like
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/fq-spec-yahoo.html
> for it?
>
> > Sorry, that's about all the light I can shed on the subject.
> >
> > Because the name of the exchange hasn't changed do you still think the
> > manual needs to be changed? I see this as more of an internal change to
> > point GnuCash at the correct module in Finance::Quote, nothing else
> really
> > changes, does it?
> >
> > Gord
>
> Because the source symbol changes and we have a few Perl helper scripts
> gnc-fq-*, which do not know the table in engine, the new symbol needs to
> be documented.
>
> Ideally it is then done like for the former zifunds, which became (part
> of) dws. We still have both symbols in the table
>
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/fq-sources.html#gnc-tbl-fq-individual-source
> to send the former zifunds users the new symbol dws.
>
> Frank
>