[GNC] importing prices from csv

Jack Frillman jcf_m_lists at me.com
Wed Mar 16 20:15:18 EDT 2022



I track the prices of Mutual Funds, Stocks and Precious Metals and 
import them all with a single CSV file.
In all three cases I do not use any of the pre-defined GNUCash Namespace 
names. I use all user defined name space.


On 3/16/22 8:08 PM, Art Chimes wrote:
> I well remember agonizing over this when I first set up price imports.
> There's a bit of a learning curve here.
>
> "Namespace" can be FUND (if it's a mutual fund), NYSE or NASDAQ or
> AMEX if it's a stock on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, or the
> American Stock Exchange, respectively.
>
> Most exchange-traded funds, or EFTs, are traded on AMEX, but there are
> exceptions. For example, there's an EFT (QQQM) that tracks the NASDAQ
> 100, and Gnucash wants the FUND namespace on that one.
> Good luck, and please post any further questions.
>
>
> Art
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