Problem with shares when setting up investments

[Ryan Flegel]

Ahh, I've discovered the problem (after unnecessarily compiling and
installing 2.4.0 :-). I had the Currency/Security type set to CAD
(Canadian Dollar) instead of creating a new Fund. I guess when it's
set to a currency, it automatically sets the price to 1, which makes
sense.

-- 
Ryan

On 31 December 2010 00:33, Ryan Flegel <rflegel at gmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds like what I've done, but my Shares and Price get
> unnecessarily and incorrectly calculated instead of just the Value
> (Buy).
>
> --
> Ryan
>
> On 30 December 2010 22:19, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I enter the amt of shares the total sale price and let GC do the rest.
>>  Since it doesn't really matter compared to the sale price and total
>> shares.
>>
>> The split is the cash acct.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Ryan Flegel <rflegel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to set up my retirement investment account (Mutual Fund),
>>> but I'm having some difficulties.
>>>
>>> if, for example, I create a transaction of 10 shares at a price of 5
>>> and hit <enter> to record the transaction, the shares gets
>>> automatically adjusted to 100 and the price to 1. The final value is
>>> right, but why are the number of shares and price getting reset?
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ryan
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