Problem obtaining share price
Leslie Katz
lesliek at ozemail.com.au
Thu Jun 22 04:53:46 EDT 2006
I set up a new account today in a file that consists of various shares.
However, when I tried to use the price editor to get the closing prices
for the shares in the file, I was told that no price could be obtained
for the new share. However, I couldn't find anything wrong with the way
I'd created the account. I then ran dump-finance-quote, both for a
longstanding share (WBC) and for the new one (WCTPA). The output was as
follows:
[leslie at localhost ~]$ dump-finance-quote yahoo_australia WBC
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
symbol: WBC.AX <=== required
date: 06/22/2006 <=== required
currency: AUD <=== required
last: 22.510 <=\
nav: <=== one of these
price: 22.510 <=/
timezone: <=== optional
[leslie at localhost ~]$ dump-finance-quote yahoo_australia WCTPA
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
symbol: WCTPA.AX <=== required
date: 06/22/2006 <=== required
currency: <=== required
last: 99.910 <=\
nav: <=== one of these
price: 99.910 <=/
timezone: <=== optional
I noticed that the information obtained for the new share did not have
the currency field filled in, although the information obtained for the
longstanding one did.
I suspect that that means that the problem is with Yahoo rather than
with the way I set up the new account. However, since I seem always to
be making mistakes with the way I set up new accounts, I'd be grateful
for confirmation that, for once, the fault isn't mine.
Many thanks,
Leslie
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