Finance Quote price format.

[John Ralls]

On Feb 3, 2014, at 3:15 AM, Alan Hughston <alan.hughston at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been using Gnucash for a few months and decided to implement finance
> quote.  On 31 January I downloaded the first bunch of prices for stocks.
> 
> The format of the price data seems very strange as can be seen from the
> screen shot below.  The price for BHP is correct at
> 36.57              but can anyone explain why it is expressed as
> 36 + 5699999/9999999
> 
> Price was downloaded from Yahoo Australia.  I also tried ASX (Australian
> Stock Exchange) with same result.
> 
> Gnucash 2.6.0
> Windows 8.1
> 
> Thanks in anticipation of enlightenment.
> Alan

It's a bug, fixed in 2.6.1, as discussed here only yesterday.

> 
> PS.  ASX appears to have a limit of 10 stocks per download run.  More than
> 10 stocks and you start getting error messages in the price editor.  Yahoo
> limit is higher, I havent hit the limit.
> 


That's most likely because ASX doesn't have a data mode like Yahoo! does and so must be screen-scraped. Perhaps 10 stocks is the limit of how many stocks they'll display on a single page.

Regards,
John Ralls