[GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

[Kalpesh Patel]

Appreciate that explanation. 

It is indeed considered as currency in that ISO 4217 which is
internationally maintained.

I guess there needs to be a deviation between ISO's symbols and how
Exchanges maintains symbols for quotes, and rightfully so.

Follow on questions then, and which I think I answered it already but in
case it isn't correct, how should one track its daily Exchange rate since
Currencies namespace is not mutable?


-----Original Message-----
From: john <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2024 10:35 AM
To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
Cc: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>; Damon Hudac
<dhud at toadmeadow.com>; gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

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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