I don't think I can stop using GnuCash after getting the taste of it. Good
work, guys :)
I recently joined the gnucash-devel list, so I haven't even had the time to
lurk around a lot, but I've browsed through the recent entries in the
archive. There I read about the ongoing process of separating the stock
qoutes from the GnuCash accounts.
My main question: Will this stock quote database be a separate product or
will it only be a part of GnuCash? I think it would be great to have a
separate quote database accessible from a variety of financial applications
like GnuCash (of course:), Gnumeric(?), graph plotters, technical analysis
programs, ...well, you name it.
By outsourcing the stock quote handling, GnuCash doesn't have to know about
how to access all the different stock exchanges, and the end user doesn't
have to maintain different databases containing the same quote datasets (a
big advantage).
Because of its fundamental usage, the quote database should only include
"official market prices", or else the results from, say, a technical
analysis program would be at least unreliable.
Following this thought, I don't see how it makes sense to put the buy/sell
price from an actual transaction in a GnuCash account into the quote
database, as the price entered in GnuCash might be the result of a special
deal like, say, a bet :)
That would also solve the problem of how deleted transactions in GnuCash
would affect the quote database (as mentioned in the other thread). Simply
because a stand-alone quote database wouldn't be affected at all.
I hope this hasn't already been discussed to death, and I really hope I
presented some new points and not only stated established facts.
Again, thanks for a great program.
Regards,
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Tor-Øyvind Gundersen
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