Druid for Stock purchase/selling

Bengt Thuree bengt at thuree.com
Sun Jul 22 22:20:04 EDT 2007


I forward this to the user list, since I asked if more people would be
willing to offer a reward for this feature.

/Bengt
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 12:19 +1000, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I am only using gnucash now for the past 12 months or so, and so far I
> have no regrets. Hopefully I can be a bit more active again a bit later,
> in documentation if not in coding.
> 
> My main areas of issues are the following
> 
> 1) Druids for security handling
> (Buying/Selling/Dividend/Adding/Re-Invest/Split etc) for securities
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/WishList#Easier_Setup_of_Stocks
> 2) Problems (at least in 2.0.2) with multiple currencies and non default
> currencies in transactions. 340037, 335103, 334255
> 3) Easy investment reports (sortable per account, stock, sub summarize
> per security (exists in many different accounts). Exportable to
> openoffice or plain text, since the reports never seem to print out ok
> for me. 
> 
> For instance:
> 
> I followed the Concept Guide, and sold some shares and it is a rather
> cumbersome process compared with M$$ Money to be honest. Especially
> since after I was done, I realized that my income/dividend account
> contained a lot of 0 transactions. Still using 2.0.2 here.
> Still having problems with 335103, 340037 among others.
> 
> Hopefully item 1 would fix item 2 :)
> Therefore I am more than willing to offer a reward for this feature. USD
> 50 or more depending on the solution. Hopefully there will be more
> people wanting this feature enough to offer a reward :)
> 
> A nice gui for stock handling is on the top of my wish list though, see
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/WishList#Easier_Setup_of_Stocks
> I would definitely be willing to offer a reward ( for this, and if a
> number of other users wants the same, this reward can become a quite
> substantial.
> 
> /Bengt



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