Canadian Stock Qoutes troubles

Paul B. paulb at premal.com
Fri Oct 3 18:09:41 CDT 2003


Thanks David,
F-Q-Helper works fine from command prompt.
But how to do it from Price Editor window?
I'm still getting quotes in USD.
Paul

David Hampton wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:38, Paul B. wrote:
> 
>>One more thing  David,
>>Look at below:
>>
>>$/usr/bin/dump-finance-quote
>>
>>Usage: /usr/bin/dump-finance-quote <quote-source> <stock> [<stock> ...]
>>
>>Available sources are:
>>      vwd australia usa troweprice amfiindia nasdaq bmonesbittburns 
>>yahoo_asia canada tiaacref troweprice_direct yahoo fidelity dwsfunds 
>>yahoo_australia indiamutual asia canadamutual fidelity_direct nyse asx 
>>fool tdwaterhouse trustnet ftportfolios_direct uk_unit_trusts dutch 
>>ftportfolios fundlibrary aex yahoo_europe vanguard europe
>>
>>There is no source for Canadian stock. Source "canada" returns quotes in 
>>  USD always.
> 
> 
> In F::Q "Canada" is an alias to Yahoo.  You have to tell yahoo to pull
> quotes from the Toronto or other Canadian stock exchange if you want the
> quotes in CAD.  Otherwise it will pull them from an American exchange
> and give you the quote in USD. 
> 
>   $ echo '(yahoo "CSCO" "TTV.TO")' | ./finance-quote-helper
>   (("CSCO" (symbol . "CSCO")
>    (gnc:time-no-zone . "2003-09-29 16:00:00")
>    (last . 20.20)
>    (currency . "USD"))
>    ("TTV.TO" (symbol . "TTV.TO")
>    (gnc:time-no-zone . "2003-09-24 15:43:00")
>    (last . 1.23)
>    (currency . "CAD")))
> 
> See http://finance.yahoo.com/sd or
> http://eur.help.yahoo.com/help/uk/fin/quote/quote-02.html for a list of
> supported exchanges.  F::Q handles all exchanges listed.*
> 
> David
> 
> *Note that the second reference contains an error.  The suffix for the
> Paris stock exchange is ".PA", as shown in the first reference.
> 



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