[GNC] Fidelity and TD Ameritrade setup

[Kalpesh Patel]

I succinctly remember that yesterday when I downloaded for Fidelity, I got 9/30's transaction (reinvest of dividends) but nothing for Oct's transactions. I wonder what could be the difference between PocketSense OFX settings and the aqbanking OFX settings that is making it not behave identically. I wonder if the type of brokerage account, like a retirement account versus non-retirement account makes a difference. On to debugging it...

One note of caution though, don’t use PocketSense and aqbaning for the same account, whether for a broker or for a bank account. The way each one presents account info settings causes GnuCash to get confused and disassociate from the other since it can only take one of those settings at any given time so stick with one or the other. Better approach might be to use aqbanking for non-brokers (ie banking and credit cards) accounts and use PocketSense to download trades into GnuCash.



-----Original Message-----
From: David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> 
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2020 10:11 AM
To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
Cc: April <faith2013hk at gmail.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Fidelity and TD Ameritrade setup

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