[GNC] Wrong currency when recording a stock purchase

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 00:41:47 EDT 2020


Looking at the price database dialog, it is possible to select and edit the
currency for each price entry when manually entering or editing existing
price entries.  This reduces the problem to tracking down a cause if it
happens with automatically generated entries.

David Carlson

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 9:11 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> If I recall correctly, the parent account of the account that holds the
> stock sets the currency. Thus if you have a brokerage handling stock in
> multiple currencies for you, you have to create placeholder sub-accounts
> under the main brokerage account just to segregate the stocks for each
> currency like so:
>
> Brokerage
> |_Brokerage:Brokerage-USD
>   |_Brokerage:Brokerage-USD:StockABC
>   |_Brokerage:Brokerage-USD:StockVOO
> |_Brokerage:Brokerage-CAD
>   |_Brokerage:Brokerage-CAD:StockDEF
>   |_Brokerage:Brokerage-CAD:StockXYZ
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Mar 9, 2020 w11d69, at 6:19 PM, Nelson <fkjasdhf878 at mailinator.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 3.8 on Windows.
> >
> > So, I have a VOO stock type account. The account is years old and is
> getting
> > online quotes without any problems.
> >
> > Today I try to register a new purchase (VOO 200 at 252.25) and I realized
> > that the reporting is no longer working - the purchase price seems to be
> > corrupted.
> >
> > After a bit of troubleshooting I realized the currency for the record in
> the
> > price database, the one "user:price" source, is CAD instead of USD.
> >
> > As far as I know, there is now way to specify currency for a stock type
> > account or for the entry in the stock account.
> >
> > How do I fix this? And how exactly is the currency for a a stock type
> > account determined?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
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