Problems getting quotes for funds

[Conor O'Neill]

I'm stuck with the same problem. Has anyone managed to make any progress 
on this?

Richard Ullger wrote:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> For what its worth I'm also seeing this behaviour. Because the prices 
> were being retrieved using gnc-fq-dump I incorrectly assumed that 
> gnucash was loading them correctly. But on checking in the price editor, 
> prices for my stocks update ok but those for my funds are being ignored 
> with no errors.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard.
> 
> Fred Bone wrote:
>> On 14 February 2008 at 22:54, David Reiser said:
>>
>>> If you can find the folder containing the finance-quote modules, you 
>>> could apply the attached patch, and it should work as long as you  don't
>>> have any quote retrievals pointed at Yahoo USA (Yahoo Asia and  Australia
>>> might also be a problem -- I haven't tested). On my mac  they're in a
>>> folder something like:  perl5/5.8.8/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/ Base.pm and
>>> Europe.pm. There are only 3 changes, so you could hand  edit pretty easily
>>> too. Then use the isin+country code for the ticker.
>> I tried the suggested solution, but it doesn't do the trick for me. I 
>> asked for a share and a fund, both quoted on LSE.
>>
>> The command
>>  perl gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe TOMK.L GB0033031260GBP
>> returns
>>
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>     symbol: TOMK.L               <=== required
>>       date: 02/22/2008           <=== required
>>   currency: GBP                  <=== required
>>       last: 1.8775               <=\
>>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>>      price: 1.8775               <=/
>>   timezone:                      <=== optional
>> =====
>>
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>     symbol: GB0033031260GBP      <=== required
>>       date: 02/21/2008           <=== required
>>   currency: GBP                  <=== required
>>       last: 1705.64              <=\
>>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>>      price: 1705.64              <=/
>>   timezone:                      <=== optional
>>
>> which looks good. However, Price Editor can't process the second of 
>> these. It doesn't return any error (which it will do if, for example, I 
>> change the symbol to something random); it just appears to ignore the 
>> information returned.
>>
>> Using my browser to issue the same command that Gnucash issues (results 
>> attached), I see that the data returned differs - and the number of 
>> fields returned for the share is two less than the number requested. I'm 
>> not sure whether this matters.
>>
>> The *only* prices returned for the fund are those that end up in the 
>> fields captioned "last" and "close" - the others come back as "N/A". I'm 
>> wondering whether the Price Editor is preferring one of the others but 
>> the gnc-fq-dump code doesn't know about this.
>>
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