[GNC] Vanguard investments module for Gnucash / Finance ::Quote

Derek Robinson derek.robinson at ymail.com
Wed Nov 20 14:12:48 EST 2019


 Frank - thanks for your message and the suggestion. I made two updates to the module and posted it to the Finance::Quote developers list. Those updates are:

- Changed the logic that retrieves the last price to directly extract the last (most current) row of the price table, instead of iterating from the top. Probably doesn't make much difference but this is a little cleaner.
- Provided two links in the SEE ALSO documentation section, one for 529 portfolios and one for all other Vanguard products.

Best,Derek
    On Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 04:28:15 PM EST, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Hi Derek,

Am Di., 19. Nov. 2019 um 17:28 Uhr schrieb Derek Robinson via
gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>:
>
> Vanguard investors using GnuCash may be frustrated that many Vanguard products (like their 529 portfolios, any 401(k) / 403(b) products with the word "Trust" in the title) do not have prices that are easily obtainable from one of the regular price sources. The attached module extracts prices from the Vanguard price history page and adds them to the GnuCash price database.
>
> VanguardSite.pm will retrieve the most recent daily closing price (NAV) for Vanguard investments (funds, collective investment trusts, 529 portfolios ...) using Finance::Quote and add it to the GnuCash price history.
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> Feel free to message me with questions.
> -Derek

you should consider to offer it to the finance-quote project.

One nitpick:the help section "See also" links to
http://www.vanguard.com, which is a redirect to
https://investor.vanguard.com/corporate-portal/# which then offers
several sites. Can you be more specific there, ideally the page
explaining which symbols a used, ...

Background: That is my starting point, when I update
https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/fq-sources.html#gnc-tbl-fq-individual-source
etc. for official modules.

Regards
Frank  


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