[GNC] Price editor uses old entry

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Freitag, 5. November 2021, 16:39:28 CET schrieben Sie:
> > On Nov 5, 2021, at 4:22 AM, Rainer Dorsch via gnucash-user
> > <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I noticed that if the price editor has an entry in EUR and an entry in
> > USD, it used the EUR entry, even if the USD entry has a newer date. My
> > account currency is EUR.
> > 
> > Is that intended and is there an option to change this behavior?
> > 
> > I usually get the EUR entry, if I buy or sell stock or funds, which are
> > accounted in USD.
> 
> GnuCash always prefers a direct conversion over an indirect one regardless
> of the date. It's not optional. I suppose the problem arises because you're
> trading USD-priced stocks from an EUR-denominated brokerage account and the
> trades create the EUR prices. The simplest work around is to remove those
> EUR prices from the pricedb; it won't affect the transaction or reports
> using the average-cost price source. To avoid the problem going forward
> create an intermediary USD bank account in your brokerage account hierarchy
> and when recording the trade make separate splits for USD<->EUR and
> stock<->USD. Chris Lam is working on a stock trading assistant to make this
> a bit less cumbersome; we hope it will be finished in time for GnuCash 5.
> 

Thanks John for your quick reply.

The scenario you describe matches well my use case.

Yes, I manually delete the EUR entries in the pricedb

I am looking forward to the stock trading assistant.

Can you tell why GnuCash always prefers a direct conversion over an indirect 
one regardless of the date? Is this a bug or a feature :-) ?

Thanks
Rainer

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Rainer Dorsch
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