Handling bond purchases and sales

[subscribe307 at verizon.net]

I am trying to schedule the sale and interest payments so that they 
don't show up in the chart of accounts Total(USD) like they would if 
they are post-dated in the register.  The automatic entry works fine for 
the interest payments but not the sale.  I am trying to make the 
Total(USD) be the current asset total since the total several years from 
now is not very useful.
My question on the symbol is what do I use for a quote source and then 
how do I determine their symbol?

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "subscribe307 at verizon.net" <subscribe307 at verizon.net> writes:
>
>   
>> I am trying to set up an automatic sale of a bond when it matures.
>> When I enter all the data in the scheduled transaction and check the
>> box to create automatically I get the dialog box saying "Scheduled
>> Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created" when the
>> transaction is completed with the OK.  I don't understand what is
>> considered a variable or if there is a way around this to have this
>> transaction created automatically.
>>     
>
> Why setup an SX?  Why not just enter the single transaction and
> post-date it?    Also, I'm pretty sure the SX system does NOT handle
> stock transactions (at least historically it did not support it).
>
>   
>> The second question I have is what to use as a symbol/abbreviation in
>> order to receive updated quotes for a bond in the US in the New
>> Security information when setting up the account under the
>> Security/currency entry.
>>     
>
> You need to use whatever symbol is in the quote source.
>
>   
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> -derek
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