What's the symbol for the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

[Mike Roberts]

OK, my bad.  I know finance.yahoo.com will give you the Dow Jones
Industrials for ^DJI, but I have never tried to retrieve it into GnuCash.  I
download a lot of stock prices daily into GC, but no indexes.  I am curious
as to what you would do with it?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+mike=roberts-engineering.com at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+mike=roberts-engineering.com at gnucash.org] On
Behalf Of David Carlson
Sent: 09/14/2011 3:40 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: What's the symbol for the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

On 8/30/2011 11:57 PM, Mike Roberts wrote:
> If you are using Yahoo to retrieve, it would be ^DJI.  You can go to
> finance.yahoo.com then search for any index.  That would probably work
with
> other quote services.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+mike=roberts-engineering.com at gnucash.org
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+mike=roberts-engineering.com at gnucash.org] On
> Behalf Of Jean-David Beyer
> Sent: 08/30/2011 10:13 PM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: What's the symbol for the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
>
> . wrote:
>> I'm trying to setup stock quotes in GC so that I can check the
>> various indexs.  Particularly I want to know what the Dow is at any
>> given moment.
>>
>> I've tried DJI and DJIA to no success.
>>
>> Any ideas what to do?
>>
>>
>>
> I do not know what GnuCash wants, but my broker would want $INDU
>
>
Hi,

I have tried to set this up in Gnu/Cash without luck.  I have no problem
with regular stock prices.  I have set up a security NYSE ^DJI using the
security editor and checking the Online Quotes box.  I have tried both
Single source Yahoo and Multiple USA sources.  Local timezone has always
worked for me with stocks.  I also assigned this security to a Stock
account in the Chart of accounts and manually entered a price so that I
can see it in the price editor. 

Invariably, when I click get prices, I get the error:
Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:
  NYSE:^DJI
Continue using only the good quotes?

Is anyone else able to download this price?

Thanks,

David Carlson