Serious Investment management in GC ?

[David Carlson]

Andrew,

Like David T I have several investment accounts going back many years.  I
also enter all transactions manually because none of the brokerage houses
that I use have OFX or other download files available.  Soon I may try CSV
since that import facility has been improved in GnuCash, but I expect that
I will still enter most transactions manually to get the data structure
'correct'.

As David also mentioned, capital gains are a pain, and getting unrealized
gains to be correct after partial position sales is far from trivial, but I
manage.  I use a spreadsheet to do some calculations that the broker does
not do.

If you are a day trader, you probably want software designed for that
purpose.

David C

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:01 PM, David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> I am not really sure what you’re talking about when you say “Serious
> Investment Management.” I have used GnuCash for 10 years; my current
> portfolio includes 2 stock investment brokerage accounts, numerous mutual
> fund accounts (4 different retirement accounts, a couple of 529s). The file
> includes 191 STOCK type accounts (not all active) and 125 MUTUAL FUND type
> accounts (again, not all active). I don’t use transaction downloads, but
> enter the transactions manually. My file lists a couple thousand dividend
> transactions covering a decade, which works out to, what, about 8 a month?
> This is not a huge problem, although managing capital gains records can be
> a pain. Other than that, though, there’s not a lot to it: you see a
> transaction, you enter a transaction.
>
> Perhaps you have something particular in mind?
>
> David
>
> > On Apr 19, 2017, at 10:38 PM, Andrew Gross <aegross at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone doing serious investment management in GC, i.e., stock portfolio
> > with dividend management, mutual funds, etc?
> >
> > I have been using GC for a number of months for day-to-day personal
> > expenses and love it.   But my understanding of how to do investment
> > management has bogged down and am on the precipice of engaging another
> > tool.  Maybe I am just going about this all wrong?  Part of the concern
> has
> > been the inability to get aqbanking to work with Vanguard. That said, In
> > looking at the GC mailing list over the last 6 months, I almost never see
> > talk of investments; perhaps it's just a tiny minority who use GC for
> such.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andrew Gross
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