Privately Held Stocks

[Fred Bone]

David T. said:

> This is not a big deal, but I thought I'd ask it since there's been a bit
> on stocks recently.
> 
> I own stock in a privately-held company, and wondered whether there was a
> way to indicate on the edit security page something *other* than the
> established exchanges (in my 2.0.5 install on OS X, this list contains
> AMEX EUREX FUND NASDAQ and NYSE). Certainly, one can simply arbitrarily
> put it in one of these exchanges and then set the stock so Finance::Quote
> doesn't seek quotes (which is what I have done to date), but since it's
> privately held, it doesn't belong to any of these exchanges. 
> 
> Is there a way for users to edit the Type list for stocks?

You just overtype it (in the "New Security" dialog). That's how I entered 
my shares, all of which are listed on the LSE. Once you have one for a 
given exchange, it's there on the drop-down for next time.

It won't accept blank. You could put "Unlisted", for example.