[GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Thu Apr 25 13:39:59 EDT 2019


On 25 April 2019 at 9:56, AEG said:

> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thank you for your help with this.
> I understand that the Symbol/Abbreviation should be SSE.L and that agrees
> with what I used to use with AceMoney, but I'm a little confused about
> what should appear under the heading "Namespace" in the GnuCash Security
> Editor and under the heading "Security" in the Price Editor.
> 
> The existing security types are listed as AMEX, EUREX, FUND, NASDAQ and
> NYSE, none of which appears relevant for me, which is why I created the
> LON type. I did this because, when I looked up SSE.L in Google, it came
> back with the code LON: SSE and when I did the same thing for AMZN it came
> back with NASDAQ: AMZN , so I concluded that LON ought to work.
> 
> If that is not right, what should my security type be?

Anything you like; it's only used to group the entries for your 
convenience. 

I use "LSE" (or "Paris" for Eurotunnel), and when something ceases to be 
quoted (ICI; BG) I move the entry to "LSE-".



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