Here is a link to a Wikipedia article with a bit more detail about the TMX Group... if you're interested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMX_Group On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 5:16 PM Frank H. Ellenberger < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 27.11.22 um 01:21 schrieb gnu Gord: > > I can only offer speculations as I was not the one to change the name of > > the module and don't know the reasoning behind it. I suspect it has > > something to do with where the stock quotes can be found. The website and > > organization represented there is called The TMX and it seems to > encompass > > several exchanges. Have a look here: > > https://www.tmx.com/tmx-group/tmx-group-companies > > > > The Toronto Stock Exchange is still called The TSX but this website > > (frontend?) can also get quotes from the TSX Venture Exchange and the > > Montreal Exchange, to name a couple. In fact, if you append "*:us*" to a > > stock symbol it will get quotes from the NYSE in USD. > > Interesting, perhaps use as description then > TMX (Toronto, Montreal, …), CA > > Should we add a section like > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/fq-spec-yahoo.html > for it? > > > Sorry, that's about all the light I can shed on the subject. > > > > Because the name of the exchange hasn't changed do you still think the > > manual needs to be changed? I see this as more of an internal change to > > point GnuCash at the correct module in Finance::Quote, nothing else > really > > changes, does it? > > > > Gord > > Because the source symbol changes and we have a few Perl helper scripts > gnc-fq-*, which do not know the table in engine, the new symbol needs to > be documented. > > Ideally it is then done like for the former zifunds, which became (part > of) dws. We still have both symbols in the table > > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/fq-sources.html#gnc-tbl-fq-individual-source > to send the former zifunds users the new symbol dws. > > Frank > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
