[GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

[john]

XAU is a currency because ISO 4217 says it is, along with XBA (silver), XPT (platinum), and XPD (Palladium). They're supposed to represent a troy ounce of the respective metal. Keep in mind that ISO-4217 is a banking industry specification and doesn't necessarily apply to anything you as an individual investor might be doing, nor does the fact that GnuCash recognizes the symbol mean that Alphavantage or any other quote aggregator will necessarily use it for reporting.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 9, 2024, at 15:42, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:
> 
> Most likely the case ... I am not sure how XAU was determined to be a currency when in fact it is an Index. I suspect it is historical carried forward ...
> 
> Anyways, '^XAU' and 'GC=F' (or 'SI=F') will need to be added manually as attributes in the Currency namespace are not modifiable (at least I couldn't do so on Windows platform one) in the Security Editor.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> 
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2024 12:53 PM
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database
> 
> But XAU no longer works with Alphavantage at least. GC=F (SI=F for
> silver) works fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 3/7/24 10:50 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
>> Oh!
>> 
>> XAU symbol is indeed named Gold in Currencies name space which seems 
>> <fill_in_the_blank> ...
> 
> 
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