Price Source for Mutual Fund and Stock

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:16:59PM -0700, Yogesh Agrawal wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <
> andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:59:38AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > "Yogesh Agrawal" <agrawaly at gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a question regarding the price for mutual fund and stock, that
> > show
> > > > up on different reports like balance sheet.
> > > >
> > > > There are three options
> > > > 1) Weighted Average
> > > > 2) Nearest in time
> > > > 3) Most recent
> > > >
> > > > I have two entries in the mutual fund
> > > >
> > > > 1) 117.428 unit @ 53.98       = 6338.76
> > > > 2) 135.725 unit @ 191.628   = 26008.77
> >
> > what do you mean by "two entries"? Is that two entries in the pricedb?
> > or two entries in the actual account?
> 
> 
> -- I don't know what is a pricedb and what do you  mean by actual account.
>    I have entered the two price in the price editor the day I bought them.

sorry. pricebd is the "database" behind the price editor. So there are
two sources for price information: the prices entered in the price
editor, and the prices derived from transactions entered in the
register. I believe that weighted average uses just the prices entered
in the register and not the prices from the price editor. But that's
only a guess as to how it behaves.

A
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