Stock Prices

[Mike Roberts]

Thanks!  At least in my case, a single list of Stocks is easier to search
than a separate list for each exchange.  The ticker symbol alone seems to be
enough for Yahoo Finance and other stock pricing services.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: 12/28/2009 11:19 AM
To: Mike at roberts-engineering.com
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Stock Prices

Hi,

"Mike Roberts" <Mike at roberts-engineering.com> writes:

> When setting up stock price downloads, GnuCash Help suggests that you need
> to list the exchange (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, OTC BB, Other OTC, etc.) in the
> Security Editor.  I am not clear why I need to list the exchange of each
of
> my stocks.  I usually have to look it up, and I track a lot of stocks.  I
> tried putting "Stock" in the "Type" field of the Security Editor and it
> seemed to work fine after I added "Stock" to the Quote Editor.
>
>  
>
> Is there any reason I need to maintain the exchange in the "Type" field?

There's no requirement to do so.  It's there to make finding the stocks
easier for you.  But GnuCash doesn't care what you put in there (modulo
a few strings that are 'reserved').

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-derek

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