[GNC] quotes for stock options

[Ralph]

Hmm.  Cancel my last reply :(

It looks like all my option quotes are also frozen at 12/11, even
though they all have traded yesterday and today. Yahoo appears to have
a universal problem with option quotes at the moment.

Ralph


On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:03:11 -0600
Ralph <suselist at cableone.net> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I use json/yahoo also and it works fine for me.  If there is no
> trading in a certain option for the day a quote is requested then it
> will return nothing (usually) OR the quote from the last day the
> option traded (rarely).  
> 
> Your option looks to be low volume.  According to yahoo web
> (https://in.finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY211217C00325000) it last traded
> on the 11th, volume of 8, and nothing since.  If that last-trade-date
> is correct then the quote you see in gnc would be correct. 
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:20:27 -0600 (CST)
> mike823 <fkjasdhf878 at mailinator.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am wondering what people are using for downloading quotes for US
> > stock options. I am currently using yahoo_json, which works fine for
> > stocks but it is not reliable for stock options.
> >   
> > D:\>perl "D:\tools\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-dump" -v yahoo_json  
> > SPY211217C00325000 Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> >     symbol: SPY211217C00325000   <=== required
> >       date: 12/11/2020           <=== recommended
> >   currency: USD                  <=== required
> >       last: 56.6                 <=\
> >        nav:                      <=== one of these
> >      price:                      <=/
> >   timezone:                      <=== optional
> > 
> > All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock SPY211217C00325000
> > 
> > stock           field  value
> > -----           -----  -----
> > SPY211217C00325000      close: 56.84
> > SPY211217C00325000   currency: USD
> > SPY211217C00325000       date: 12/11/2020
> > SPY211217C00325000  div_yield: 0
> > Use of uninitialized value in printf at
> > D:\tools\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-dump line 138.
> > SPY211217C00325000        eps:
> > SPY211217C00325000   exchange: Sourced from Yahoo Finance (as JSON)
> > SPY211217C00325000       high: 56.6
> > SPY211217C00325000    isodate: 2020-12-11
> > SPY211217C00325000       last: 56.6
> > SPY211217C00325000        low: 56.19
> > SPY211217C00325000     method: yahoo_json
> > SPY211217C00325000       name: SPY211217C00325000 (SPY Dec 2021
> > 325.000 call)
> > SPY211217C00325000       open: 56.19
> > Use of uninitialized value in printf at
> > D:\tools\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-dump line 138.
> > SPY211217C00325000         pe:
> > SPY211217C00325000    success: 1
> > SPY211217C00325000     symbol: SPY211217C00325000
> > SPY211217C00325000       type: OPTION
> > SPY211217C00325000     volume: 8
> > SPY211217C00325000 year_range:        56.19 - 56.6
> > 
> > The update on Dec 15 comes back with Dec 11 data.
> > 
> > TIA  
>  
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