QIF Fund Prices
Michael T. Garrison Stuber
garrisonstuber@bellsouth.net
Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:03:33 -0400
> I'm not sure what you are asking exactly. There's a mechanism for
> price quotes that get tacked on to the end of the QIF file; those
> aren't imported just because nobody's gotten around to it yet. There
> are also prices included with transactions involving stocks; those are
> what we call "implicit prices", and they will show up in the stock
> register but not in the "price editor", which is just for price quotes
> not associated with transactions.
>
> Which of these were you asking about?
Apologies, I wasn't very clear. Though, as it turns out, I was asking
about both -- sort of. I download QIF files for my 401k. My 401k is
structure inside of GNUCash with one master account which I regularly
transfer money into, and from there an account for each investment. This
lines up with the way my 401k provider accounts for it. Why I import the
QIF file from them, for some reason every transaction is entered as an
unbalanced transaction. Both accounts are correctly referenced but the
withdrawl from the master account isn't recorded properly. This is the
root cause of my original question. The share quantity, the price, and the
account are loaded into GNUCash, but I have to edit the transaction before
GNUCash will make use of it. Did I do something wrong here?
My provider doesn't include prices at the end of the file the way Quicken
does for historical prices. But, several of the funds are privately
administered so there is no price to download. What about an option that
would allow a implicit prices to be stored in the price editor as well?
Architectually would this be hard to do? (I know, go look at the code.
Sorry I haven't gotten that far yet). I'm thinking an option at the
account level that the QIF import could check and then stuff the price into
the historical prices as well.
Finally, yes it would be nice to load the historical prices from the QIF
file. I have 4 years of prices in Quicken. I hate to throw them away.