[GNC] Mutual fund quotes in the U. S.

[Jack Frillman]

It may be doing what I'm doing and making the date of the closing price 
as the day the script is run.

I don't run it using cron. I run it manually and if I forget a day I 
don't worry about it.
I just run one of these two commands from the terminal.

getquotes -y    <--   gets the prices from Yahoo
......OR.....
getquotes -m   <--   gets the prices from Market Watch

Then I import the resulting csv file that appears on my desktop.

I have two places to get the quotes so if one is unreachable for some 
reason I have a backup source.


On 4/23/21 9:43 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> I am not sufficiently comfortable with BASH, Chron jobs, etc to be 
> willing to set up an outside utility to do that.  I manually download 
> prices inside the GnuCash price database using Yahoo as JSON as the 
> source.  If I forget to do it in the late evening I sometimes try to 
> do it in the morning before the market opens as I have several stock 
> prices that I am also tracking.  That is how I discovered the 
> incorrect dates on the mutual funds prices,  I am not sure if, for 
> example, GnuCash downloads a stock price during the day, does it 
> replace it with a closing price if it downloads again after the market 
> closes. I suspect it may not even keep the timestamps that come with 
> the prices, so there may not be any clue about that.
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:18 PM Jack Frillman via gnucash-user 
> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> wrote:
>
>     I'm not sure what you are using to updated the your prices but I
>     wrote a
>     python script & a bash script that get the quotes and put them into a
>     csv file for importing into GNUCash and I don't have that date
>     issue. I
>     run the scrips in the evening when the markets are closed.
>
>     On 4/23/21 8:59 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>     > I noticed recently that if I download mutual fund prices after
>     about 7 AM
>     > central daylight time the prices are saved in GnuCash with
>     todays date even
>     > though they are still yesterday's closing NAV until sometime
>     after the
>     > markets close.  To reliably get the correct price posted on the
>     correct
>     > date it seems that I must wait until after 7PM Central time but
>     before 7AM
>     > the following morning.
>     >
>     > I would like to suggest an enhancement that if GnuCash downloads
>     a United
>     > States mutual fund price with a morning time stamp that it
>     presume it to be
>     > yesterday's closing NAV price.  I would like comments from
>     others about
>     > this.
>     >
>
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