Privately Held Stocks

[David T.]

For reasons that aren’t clear, the thread in question got split into two; the first thread (on June 25) was where I raised the initial question. The second thread appears on June 26, and Fred Bone provides the answer.

Thanks for adding your summary.

David

> On May 18, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Brian Bersbach <bersbachbrian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There was a post in 2007 that comes up first on Google for Privately Held
> Stocks (or searching for Private Stocks)
> 
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-June/020793.html
> 
> I wanted to 'reply' to that.  More for others searching for help with
> GNUcash using google.
> 
> 
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have a stock, private or not, that is
> not traded on one of the markets listed by GNUcash you can add it by using
> the security editor
> 
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/tool-security-edit.html
> 
> Basically , click on 'Tools' up at the top, then 'Security Editor', then
> click 'Add' to put in non-NYSE, NASDAQ, etc exchanges.
> 
> If it's a private stock, I typed in:
> 
> Full Name: 'My private stock company name'
> Symbol/abbreviation: 'None My private stock company name'
> Type:  'Private Stock' (yes you can type in here - just do not type '
> *Template')*
> 
> You need to have the Symbol/abbreviation filled out to click 'Ok'
> 
> Brian Bersbach
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