XAU

[Divakar Ramachandran]

Danke, that really explains  the approximate factor of ~ 32 that I was
getting between the expected and obtained prices. Today's price says
55,101 which corresponds to INR 1777 per gram which sounds reasonable
though not accurate. I guess I will have to look for another source, or
enter the actual price manually.

Thanks again for the clarification,
Divakar

On 08/05/2010 00:05, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> Namaste,
>
> Am Freitag, 7. Mai 2010 um 19:01:32 schrieb Divakar Ramachandran:
>   
>> Thanks. Actually I am interested in tracking my personal jewelery and
>> stuff made of gold, silver etc, which I have added into Assets/Fixed
>> Assets under Jewelry etc. I would like to track their monetary value as
>> I do other stocks and mutual funds and have assigned the commodity as
>> XAU. When I use the online fq update, it gets a number for XAU that is
>> not related to what I want which is the cost of gold in the Indian
>> market in Indian Rupees per gram, or other convertible unit of weight.
>>
>> So, when you say Gold was at a high of USD 1212, is this down loadable
>> automatically in 
>>     
> a) GnuCash 
> yes, Tools->Security Editor
> 	enable "Show national currencies"
> 	expand CURRENCY,
> 	Select XAU,
> 	Edit->
> 		enable "Get Online Quotes", 
> 		OK
> 	Close
> Tools->Price Editor
> 	Get Quotes
> 	expand CURRENCY,
> 	expand XAU,
> 	There is an entry a most recent date e.g.
> USD XAU 05/07/10 Finance::Quote last 1,210.100000
> meaning the last price for 1 troy ounce (~31g) Gold was 1210.1 USD.
>
> b) gnc-fq-dump?  
> It is also possible, to use this tool, but it is more for test purposes, e.g. 
> you get an error, when getting quotes because you had an typo in the symbol 
> of your security.
>
>   
>> And is there an option somewhere 
>> to get it in INR instead?
>>     
> In which currency the the price is fetched depends on your LANG settings, see 
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_want_to_use_GnuCash_in_my_own_language 
> for details.
>
>   
>> Thanks,
>> Divakar
>>     
> HTH
> Frank
>
>