[GNC] Fidelity and TD Ameritrade setup

[David Reiser]

Good to know.

My Fidelity ofx data is up to date (I got a 10/30 dividend transaction in yesterday’s download).

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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com





> On Nov 2, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Heads up for those that use aqbanking to connect brokers for download:
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> 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.
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> Fidelity:  the data on OFX server lags by a month or more.
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