problems retrieving Australian Stock quote prices

[David Reiser]

On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Tom Cameron wrote:

> David,
>
> Thanks for the reply
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 14:37, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>  
> wrote:
>
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Tom Cameron wrote:
>
> I have spent a few hours pulling my hair out on this one. Im trying  
> to track
> some stocks on the Australian Stock Exchange such as CBA (
> http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CBA.AX&x=21&y=12 ). But I dont seem  
> to be
> able to work it out.
>
> Firstly I cant work out what the "Type" of the security should be.  
> Ive tired
> ASX, AX, AU and various others and Im not sure if it makes any  
> difference or
> not.
>
> Type doesn't matter.
>
> So what is correct?

Type in Australia, or whatever you want to represent the stock  
exchange that CBA is traded on.
>
> CBA.ASX and almost every combination I can imagine. And finally for  
> the
> source of the quote Ive tried Yahoo, Yahoo Australia, ASX,  
> Austraila, and
> various others.
> Then Ive tried the code itself as cba, CBA, cba.ax, CBA.ax, CBA.AU,
>
> What version of finance::quote are you using?
>
> How would I work that out?

When you launch gnucash, before the accounts window appears, the  
terminal will show a message like "Found Finance::Quote version 1.1x".
>
> I should note that I have utterly no knowledge of how this all works  
> so if you were to let me understand more about how it is working and  
> where to get debug info I may be able to work it out myself, but I  
> have no idea where to start at the moment.

Type anything for the full name. CBA goes in the "Symbol/abbreviation"  
box of the security editor. The symbol is case sensitive. You can  
leave the ISIN/cusip blank. The minimum fraction may not matter, but I  
leave whatever the default is (something like 1/10000).
>
> And every time I keep getting "Unable to retrieve quotes for these  
> items
> XXXX".
>
> Im on Ubuntu and I just installed GnuCash using apt-get install so Im
> assuming all dependancies are there. gnucash 2.2.6 r17427 2008-10-02
>
> Ive tried the command line gnc-fq-dump with general success,  
> particularly
> "gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_australia CBA" or "gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo  
> CBA.AX" so Im
> assuming that means something is right about my system.
>
> I have to confess Im very new to GnuCash so its highly likely Ive  
> just done
> someting totally stupid in the setup.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Using gnucash 2.2.9 and finance::quote 1.15, I can retrieve quotes  
> for CBA from Yahoo_australia.
>
> I have mucked with my finance::quote, but I don't believe it affects  
> yahoo_australia.
>
> Dave
> --

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David Reiser
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