[GNC] Gnucash Price updating

[David Carlson]

Ronjnk,

Updating stock prices has never been as trivial as we wish it to be in
Gnucash.

It is necessary to decide which stocks we want to follow, then go through
several steps , including using the security editor for each one to define
what source to get the price from, using the price editor on each to choose
whether to include it in the update session,  setting up finance:quote
module with the configuration details to perform updates, and finally
manually starting the process whenever the prices are wanted.

Then it doesn't go smoothly so there is a tedious process to resolve
whatever part did not work as desired.

Even manually using the price editor to manually search through the list of
stocks and add selected prices one at a time is a major headache.

It is enough to drive a person to use a different program altogether to
track their stocks, and there are some out there.  Even a couple of free
ones that are far easier to use.
You could Google stock price trackers to see what you find.

I personally just get prices once a month or once a quarter in GnuCash,
and use a different program to track day to day so I can talk intelligently
with my broker.

GnuCash just doesn't track stocks as a feature.

David Carlson

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 5:12 AM ronjnk <ronjnk at xplornet.com> wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> Just a final note. Again, thank you for your help. I'm going to give up
> at this point and update prices manually. I don't want to be going into
> the terminal to get my software to work. Much too complicated. I
> understand the developers count on a reliable price quote and when Yahoo
> changes on a whim, it ruins everything and drives the developers crazy.
> Gnucash is a fantastic program and I thank all developers who work on
> it. Hopefully on some future version, it will all work again as it has
> in the past. All the best!
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 04/11/2019 12:33 PM, David T. wrote:
> > You don’t tell us; are you using Yahoo! as your price source? Yahoo!
> dismembered its quote source website a while back, and GnuCash users have
> had to seek out other sources. One source is AlphaVantage, while another is
> “Yahoo! as JSON”. If you set up your accounts to use one of these
> (preferably the latter), do you still get the errors?
> >
> > Note: you will need Finance::Quote verson 1.47; if you want to use
> AlphaVantage, there are instructions on the wiki; I believe that the FAQ
> has links to the instructions.
> >
> > David
> >
> >> On Apr 10, 2019, at 6:08 PM, ronjnk <ronjnk at xplornet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello to all. I have GnuCash 2.6.15 installed on my MX18 and all works
> fine
> >> except the Get quotes price updater. I get an error message "There was
> an
> >> unknown error while retrieving the price quotes." I've toyed with this
> for
> >> hours and installed everything I could find on the net to no avail.
> >>
> >> I can see the finance quote module load at start up but I cannot get a
> box
> >> to show up to even change my data source. I am a user from long ago and
> the
> >> program is awesome and the price updater has worked in years past. This
> is a
> >> new computer and new OS install but I'v tried to confirm I have all
> modules
> >> installed and as far as I know, everything is in place but won't work.
> >>
> >> I also upgraded to a much newer version and not only didn't price
> updater
> >> not work, the new asset values was completely different from the older
> >> version. I lost money. So I uninstalled and went back to this older
> version.
> >> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I am manually updating about
> a
> >> dozen quotes.
> >>
> >> Thank you! Ron
> >>
> >>
> >>
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