Importing Price History

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello-
>
> I have recently started using Gnucash 2.2.9 on Windows. I would like to --
> if possible -- download historical prices for the securities in my 401k.
> Using the Finance:Quote/Yahoo unfortunately won't work for me because none
> of the investments are publicly traded.
>
> I have what I believe to be a properly formatted QIF file of the price
> history (I made it myself, so it could be wrong) and I attempted to import
> it using the QIF Import druid, but that doesn't seem to have worked.
>
> Question 1: Is the QIF import process designed to handle price history or
> does it just ignore it when it sees that data?

No, unfortunately it will not import price quotes.

> Question 2: If the answer to Q1 is no, the XML file seems easy enough to
> comprehend, if I can generate GUIDs separately from Gnucash, can I just add
> the price history to the XML file?

Doing so it neither recommended nor supported.  But if you decide to go
that route make sure the GUIDs are random.  Something like:

  uuidgen | sed -e 's/-//g'

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-derek

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