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

[Gio Bacareza]

Many thanks!!

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 7:20 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us>
wrote:

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>
> > 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
>
>

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cheers,

Gio