[GNC] Fidelity and TD Ameritrade setup

[David Reiser]

I don’t download a file. I turn on logging in aqbanking, make the connection, then copy the transactions out of the aqbanking log file into a separate text file for manual import.
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com





> On Nov 2, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org> wrote:
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> David, where did you download the OFX file from Fidelity?  I've not seen that.  Were you using AQ Banking (I've never been able to get it to work)?
> 
> Michael
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> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 9:12 AM David Reiser via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> wrote:
> 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 <mailto:dbreiser at icloud.com>
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> > On Nov 2, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net <mailto:kalpesh.patel at usa.net>> wrote:
> > 
> > You may want to explore freeware product called PocketSense (at
> > https://sites.google.com/site/pocketsense/ <https://sites.google.com/site/pocketsense/> and
> > https://pocketsense.blogspot.com/ <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 <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.
> > 
> > Fidelity:  the data on OFX server lags by a month or more.
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