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

[cicko]

GnuCash - User mailing list wrote
> You have to suffix the stock abbreviation with the code for the bourse.
> For example, an Australian stock, say, ABC is to be encoded as ABC.AX as
> it is listed on the ASX

That suggestion is a bit misleading. The coding standard suggested is the
one applied by Yahoo. And it was probably convenient to do so in order to
fetch the prices from Yahoo! Finance.

However, there is no such requirement on the GnuCash side. One can name
their stocks any way they feel like. As long as it means something to them.
I, for example, tend to use the exchange code (i.e. AMS) for the namespace
and for the symbol I use the stock ticker as shown on that exchange.
There is a translation involved in the price fetching part but that is a
separate story.



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