Changing unit trust/stock account details

Keith Refson Keith.Refson@earth.ox.ac.uk
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:48:58 +0100


Thanks for the patches to include the Trustnet unit trust quotes.
I appreciate Dave Peticolas' point that this should be dynamically
configured and not hardcoded into the source!

Unfortunately the trustnet lookup in Finance::Quote has stopped
working, I suspect because they added an annoying javascript popup.
I'll have to hack the perl to deal with this -- or perhaps find
another and more reliable source of UK unit trust quotes.
(You can get *some* from yahoo, but apparently not all, and the
information is not so useful as they quote the mid-price not the bid
price, so the portfolio valuation does not reflect reality).

Keith Refson

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