[GNC] What if stock is from a country not in the list of types

[John Ralls]

> On May 4, 2018, at 5:32 AM, Gio Bacareza <gbacareza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm just about to start tracking my stocks. I'm reading the manual and
> tried to enter a stock which is traded in the Philippine Stock Exchange.
> 
> Under type I only see AMEX, EUREX, NASDAQ, NYSE, FUND, All non currency.
> 
> I assume I enter All Non Currency. But what does FUND mean?
> 

Make your own category. Those are just examples that are pre-populated into GnuCash. BTW, the categories exist only for your convenience to reduce the size of pick lists. You can just create one called “stocks” if you want and lump all of them together regardless of exchange. You can also recategorize commodities at will, so you could have an “Open” and “Closed” category, the former for stocks that you currently own (as in “open position”) and the latter for stocks that you’ve sold out of.

FUND is intended for open-ended mutual funds which generally trade only with the issuer and are priced daily at net asset value. That doesn’t mean that that’s what you have to use it for, of course.

Regards,
John Ralls