[GNC] Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:, CURRENCY:EUR

[Christian Kluge]

Am 02.11.2018 um 17:42 schrieb Wm via gnucash-user:

> 
> I am known for saying that gnc should not be used for trading as it
> isn't suitable. For starters it records a price per day, think about the
> significance of that for an intra day trader.  Duh!
> 

I don’t use GNC for trading either and since the prices are recorded for
the day only, I’d like to have an option to get the reference rate from
central banks via Finance-Quote instead of dynamic price source that can
change all the time. You can’t really get consistent results, if you
update your quotes from AlphaVantage at a slightly different time. The
reference rates are fixed once per day, no chance of getting them wrong.

Currency trading and keeping accounting records should kept separate and
not done with one price source. One’s time unit is seconds and fractions
of them the other is done in days.

So I’d really like to see the ECB reference rates[1] for the eurozone
getting added to finance-quote, which should be doable, since they give
some information on how to retrieve with a bit of scripting.
Unfortunately I’m not that fond in programming in Perl.


Kind regards

Christian Kluge

[1]
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html