Recording an income which includes shares

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Aug 31 10:17:51 EDT 2015


> On Aug 30, 2015, at 10:23 PM, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This got me curious about what would happen in the case the "Get
> Online Quote" was configured (and working) for a security? Would this
> warning then disappear? I doubt so, but it would make sense, as the
> only missing variable (the price) could be retrieved online at the
> time the transaction is created. Unfortunately, the online quote
> feature is broken on my system (it always returns 'There was a system
> error while retrieving the price quotes.', even though the gnc-fq-dump
> utility works for the same exchange/security), so I could not test.

It wouldn’t make sense because the chances of getting an online quote that matches the actual price for your transaction are very nearly nil.

Regards,
John Ralls




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