[GNC] Gnucash Price updating
ronjnk
ronjnk at xplornet.com
Tue Apr 16 09:30:50 EDT 2019
No problem David. I fully understand the problems you folks have to deal
with and fortunately, I simply need to track a bunch of mutual funds,
Once a month or once a quarter to manually update will be fine for now.
I'm sticking with Gnucash.
No need to get back to me but I'm pretty sure I have the yahoo:Finance
modules installed and although I selected Yahoo JSON, and a bunch of
other drop down selections, nothing worked which surprised me.
Alphavantage was not an option even when I upgraded to a much newer
version.
Anyway, thank you and I wish you the best!
Ron
On 04/16/2019 09:41 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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