Help with downloading stock prices

[Fred Bone]

On 31 January 2013 at 19:57, Andrew Moulson said:

> As a newcomer to the excellent GnuCash I'd be grateful for some help here.
> 
> I have installed Active Perl 5.16.2 32-bit on my Windows 7 machine, and
> have then run the Install Online Price Retrieval module.
> 
> I am not sure of the settings I should use  in setting up a new security.
> 
> For example, I would like to be able to collect the price of say /JP
> Morgan Claverhouse Investment Trust//plc/, which is quoted on the London
> Stock Exchange, with code JCH.
> 
> What settings should I use for in the Security Editor screen? Which Type
> should I select from the dropdown list: EUREX or another? Then in the
> Quote Source Information would I do better with a single source, and if so
> Trustnet, UK or Yahoo Europe? At the moment whatever combination I have
> tried all I get is "Unable to retrieve quote."

Set type to LSE (you can overtype the dropdown box)
Symbol is suffixed with ".L" for LSE quotes - so here, JCH.L
Source yahoo_europe seems to fetch it OK.