Am 02.11.2018 um 17:42 schrieb Wm via gnucash-user: > > I am known for saying that gnc should not be used for trading as it > isn't suitable. For starters it records a price per day, think about the > significance of that for an intra day trader. Duh! >
I don’t use GNC for trading either and since the prices are recorded for the day only, I’d like to have an option to get the reference rate from central banks via Finance-Quote instead of dynamic price source that can change all the time. You can’t really get consistent results, if you update your quotes from AlphaVantage at a slightly different time. The reference rates are fixed once per day, no chance of getting them wrong. Currency trading and keeping accounting records should kept separate and not done with one price source. One’s time unit is seconds and fractions of them the other is done in days. So I’d really like to see the ECB reference rates[1] for the eurozone getting added to finance-quote, which should be doable, since they give some information on how to retrieve with a bit of scripting. Unfortunately I’m not that fond in programming in Perl. Kind regards Christian Kluge [1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
