Not able to update stock prices online

[Derek Atkins]

Whenever you enter a price by hand, then it's going to report that.
For automatic price entries you need to run the "Get Quotes"
feature.

-derek

"Brad McNeely" <brad_mcneely at excite.com> writes:

> I've just installed GnuCash 1.8 in hopes of converting from Quicken.  While experimenting with the online stock price update, I noticed that when I created an entry in the Price Editor, it always said that the source was user:price-editor instead of Finance::Quote. I know that the perl module is installed correctly because when I run update-finance-quote it returns saying that it is update to date.  Here are the steps as I performed them in GnuCash:
> 1. Create a stock account for the item I want to track and check the box for online quotes and selected Motley Fool and Usa/New_York as the source and region.
> 2. Created an entry in the Commodity Editor.
> 3. Created an entry in the Price Editor but it alwasys says the source is user:price-editor.
> 
> Can someone provide me the correct sequence to set up items to use the on-line price module or tell me if I'm missing a step?
> 
> Regards,
> Brad
> 
> 
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