Problems getting quotes for funds

[Paul Stansell]

Dear Derek,

Recently, you helped me and others by providing a patch to deal with 
fixing gnc-fq-dump so that it could get quotes from yahoo_europe after 
they made changes to their stock and funds codes.

Well, the patch does fix gnc-fq-dump so that I can get the price of a fund 
from the command line, eg "gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe GB0003243465GBP", but 
I've just noticed that when I retrieve quotes for funds using gnucash's 
"Price Editor -> Get Quotes" the current quotes are not being stored or 
updated, and are not available to gnucash.  Stock prices, however, are 
being updated and are available.  Also, unlike the case before the patch 
was suppled, there are no error messages after the "Price Editor -> Get 
Quotes" attempt to indicate that getting the prices of any of the funds 
has failed.

Regards,

Paul Stansell


On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:

> The command was renamed to gnc-fq-dump.   Using your example:
>
> gnc-fq-dump yahoo MFEXPG.L
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>   symbol: MFEXPG.L             <=== required
>     date: ** missing **        <=== required
> currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>     last: 0.00                 <=\
>      nav:                      <=== one of these
>    price:                      <=/
> timezone:                      <=== optional
>
> ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!
>
>
> Maybe Yahoo changed their site and F::Q can't parse it?
>
> -derek
>