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

[David Carlson]

Frank, good points.  I was on a smartphone and not trying to be 100%
accurate (reigning in the spell checker is already more than I can
handle).  I think GnuCash does differentiate at least some of those types
and maybe save one of each, but I was not able to test.

David Carlson

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:44 AM Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am 23.06.20 um 22:10 schrieb David Carlson:
> > 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.
>
> There are also different dimensions of quotes:
>
> for shares, ...:
> by time:  open, last, close,
> by range: min, max,
> by direction: ask, bid,
> all determinated by the market.
>
> for mutual funds:
> net asset value (nav): is calculated by the fund company after markets
> closed and used the next day as payment for returned parts. If you buy
> parts, you pay an agio.
>
> Frank
>


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David Carlson