Bruno, Ugh, the lot scrubber. Another variable in the problem.
Now I'm confused about the two trading accounts because you say that you've got 5 trades in the asset account and each trading account. Do you have splits both INTC trading accounts for one transaction? What about Trading:CURRENCY:USD? Regards, John Ralls > On Jan 5, 2020, at 3:17 PM, Bruno Acklin <back...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don’t think I have more than one asset account for INTC, and none of the > trading accounts shows any transactions outside of the one I am using. > I am pretty sure I did not create a 2nd asset INTC (and doubt Gnucash would > have let me), but I may have edited / moved it from NYSE to INTC in the > security editor (which answers my last question, I guess ;-). > No worries, only about 5 trades in the asset account (and each trading > account); I am mostly worried about loosing 20 years of pricing history, > which is why I was looking for a way to export. > > The issue came up when I started using Actions/View lots for calculating cap > gains (working, but would need some work, such as an indication of the > purchase date or lot in the automated entry, or way to define/edit a new lot, > I think..) > > Best regards, > Bruno > > > > >> On Jan 5, 2020, at 2:56 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >> That's interesting. Do you have more than one INTC asset account, perhaps >> with different brokers (and perhaps hidden on your Accounts page either >> because you marked it hidden or have hide accounts with 0 balances turned >> on)? When you realized that INTC trades on NASDAQ and not NYSE did you edit >> the security or make a new one? >> >> How many transactions are in each account? >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >>> On Jan 5, 2020, at 2:34 PM, Bruno Acklin <back...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks John, >>> >>> I had a suspicion that this may be due to an ambiguous trading account: I >>> had noticed that originally some transactions appeared under NYSE/INTC >>> while my present security and prices are all under NASDAQ/INTC. There is no >>> security defined under NYSE/INTC, but there is a trading account with that >>> name (which has correct transactions and behaves normally), and one under >>> Trading/NASDAQ/INTC with phony transactions ($number in the increase column >>> instead of INTC shares), which is also caught in a rebalance loop. >>> >>> Should I just delete one of the two trading accounts, and which one? I lean >>> towards the NASDAQ one with the phony entries and then try to move INTC >>> from NYSE to NASDAQ - how? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Bruno >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 5, 2020, at 11:22 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>>> >>>> Bruno, >>>> >>>> Don't do anything drastic yet, but everything is pretty independent. You >>>> could change the name on the old INTC and create a new INTC security and >>>> GnuCash will happily use your INTC prices for pricing the new security. >>>> They're linked by the security name and namespace, not by GUID. >>>> Unfortunately GnuCash won't let you reassign the account but you can >>>> create a new one and transfer the balance with a transaction. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John Ralls >>>> >>>>> On Jan 5, 2020, at 9:37 AM, Bruno Acklin <back...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi John, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the impressively quick reply - and yes, I agree this looks >>>>> like the same problem! >>>>> Unfortunately there does not seem to be another fix than recreating the >>>>> stock, account and transactions.. >>>>> >>>>> Do you know of a way I might preserve the 20 years of price data I have >>>>> on that stock? I saw a suggestion to create a suitable report and >>>>> reimport the resulting file, but I dd not see any report that would allow >>>>> me to save price information. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Bruno Acklin >>>>> (408) 425 4753 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 7:43 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 6:39 PM, Bruno Acklin <back...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Best wishes for 2020! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am struggling with a stock account, where I am unable to enter any >>>>>>> valid transactions, and suspect the security information may be >>>>>>> corrupted: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Whenever I enter a trade from the account (declared as stock for an >>>>>>> existing security INTC) and press return, Gnucash completes a >>>>>>> transaction (cf attachment), which looks ok, except there is no shares >>>>>>> traded and there is no way to enter any quantity on the trading >>>>>>> account. Gnucash insists on balancing the transaction, after which >>>>>>> there is a huge number in the trading/share account, but still no >>>>>>> quantity of shares traded, and no way to complete the transaction, >>>>>>> other than closing the account tab. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I checked the security and my price information which looks ok and >>>>>>> updates w/ finance::quote. If I have to recreate the account and >>>>>>> reenter all transactions, I’d like to save the historic price >>>>>>> information, but don’t know of a way to export it. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> That sounds like a variation on >>>>>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797512. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> John Ralls >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ 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.
