[GNC] Fidelity and TD Ameritrade setup

Kalpesh Patel kalpesh.patel at usa.net
Mon Nov 2 10:06:07 EST 2020


You may want to explore freeware product called PocketSense (at
https://sites.google.com/site/pocketsense/ and
https://pocketsense.blogspot.com/) by fine gentleman named Robert which is
to more or less degree has been kept up with modern times. Robert will
accept donation to Coffee Fund in case you want to contribute something
after finding it useful.

 

It was made to be able to continue use of M$ Money online when they
discontinued that product. However, what I discovered was that it has
ability to combine and generate a single OFX file after scrapping number of
statements from various brokers, handles multiple accounts from a single
broker and ability to import manually downloaded OFX files for those that
are not readily support by the download interface into that single file.
Then it is matter of just importing that single file into GnuCash. Don't get
discouraged from the documentation if you do decide to plunge; it is way
easier then what is made out to be there - just need Python 2.7, configure a
file with OFX parameters (gotten from OFXHome at
https://www.ofxhome.com/index.php/home/directory/all)  and some
experimentation. I have been using this method since I moved over from
Quicken once they went the subscription model after somewhat painful
migration to GnuCash. It claims to be able to also download security pricing
as part of the process which I do not use at this time - GnuCash does a good
job on its own so I just use that provided facility. I basically run it when
I fire up my computer which collects various statements and then import it
in at that time and call it a day.

 

 

 

Heads up for those that use aqbanking to connect brokers for download:

 

Charles Schwab: recently they have closed off download of OFX based
statement and will only let you download CSV file after logging on to their
site. In order to continue OFX download, you have to be a Quicken subscriber
and few other that I cannot recall but very limited offering from the
conversation I had with their support folks.

Fidelity:  the data on OFX server lags by a month or more.

 

 

 

 

 



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