Stock Prices

[Twyla]

I follow the threads in Nabble and Mike your suggestion to list one exchange
as 'stocks' was just what I needed. We follow many stocks and listing the
separate exchanges was a real pain. Thanks so much.
Twyla

Mike Roberts-6 wrote:
> 
> 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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