[GNC] Finance::Quote enters previous day's price as today's

[David Reiser]

> On Jun 23, 2020, at 4:10 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am not sure that this is your problem or not, but I have found that I
> need to wait several hours after the markets have closed before downloading
> mutual fund prices.  It seems to take hours for some of them to get posted
> at Yahoo.com. One way to check would be to see what Yahoo.com is reporting
> early after hours vs later.
> 
> GnuCash only keeps one downloaded price per day, and repeated prices are
> discarded.  If you see that is what is happening, you might file a RFE to
> keep the last price reported instead of the first.
> 
> 
On my test today, gnucash did save the most recent downloaded price for today, not the first.

Fund prices can get weird, depending on data feed and intermediaries. Yahoo as JSON was reporting an 8am price for today that was slightly different from yesterday’s close for all three of these Vanguard funds. Alphavantage, as of 6:30pm today (Tuesday) was still reporting Friday’s price for these funds.

Yahoo got today’s closing NAV for VTIAX and VWELX at 5:39 pm (EDT). The VTSAX price didn’t update until 6:00pm.



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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:19 PM Colin <lumicanis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> First off, I just installed GnuCash a couple weeks ago, after trying a few
>> other options and finding they simply weren't mature enough or
>> feature-complete enough for what I need. I can't say thank you enough to
>> everyone who's developed this program, everyone who continues to develop it
>> and everyone who provides support here. It's an incredible accomplishment!
>> 
>> I have an issue with Finance::Quote. It brings in prices for my three
>> Vanguard funds when I run the following command, and I've been planning on
>> setting up a cron job for it:
>> gnucash --add-price-quotes path/to/my/gnucash/file
>> However, for one fund (VTSAX) it enters the prior day's price again as
>> today's. This requires me to look it up and fix it manually. Its settings
>> under Security editor are the same as the other two (VTIAX and VWELX).
>> They're set to get online quotes from a single source, Alphavantage.
>> Can anyone provide guidance on what may be going on here?
>> Second question:
>> I have a Raspberry Pi and it would make sense to run the cron job there
>> since it's always up. I also use Syncthing for syncing files between
>> devices. However, the latest version in their repo's is GnuCash 3.4 and
>> Finance::Quote 1.47. Would this introduce problems to have the Pi update my
>> GnuCash file with price quotes?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Colin


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