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.