I've actually found that sometimes it's easier to retrieve quotes and import through the CSV importer instead of trying to add price quotes on a cron job. If you have already set up and alphavantage account, I've found that with a little powershell, I can easily retrieve the historical prices going back years and import them once every 6 months or so.
My powershell script downloads a CSV from alphavantage for each ticker symbol, strips out the header row, then combines all the files into a single file that can be imported using a saved import setting in Gnucash. I can probable share this if someone is interested. I also have another set of saved imports I use to bring in the prices for CIT's that are not available through any of the normal price reporting mechanisms. It might be better and more reliable than running a cron job every night to get the data. Matt On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 03:11:19 PM CDT, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: I am not sure that this is your problem or not, but I have found that I need to wait several hours after the markets have closed before downloading mutual fund prices. It seems to take hours for some of them to get posted at Yahoo.com. One way to check would be to see what Yahoo.com is reporting early after hours vs later. GnuCash only keeps one downloaded price per day, and repeated prices are discarded. If you see that is what is happening, you might file a RFE to keep the last price reported instead of the first. . On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:19 PM Colin <lumica...@gmail.com> wrote: > First off, I just installed GnuCash a couple weeks ago, after trying a few > other options and finding they simply weren't mature enough or > feature-complete enough for what I need. I can't say thank you enough to > everyone who's developed this program, everyone who continues to develop it > and everyone who provides support here. It's an incredible accomplishment! > > I have an issue with Finance::Quote. It brings in prices for my three > Vanguard funds when I run the following command, and I've been planning on > setting up a cron job for it: > gnucash --add-price-quotes path/to/my/gnucash/file > However, for one fund (VTSAX) it enters the prior day's price again as > today's. This requires me to look it up and fix it manually. Its settings > under Security editor are the same as the other two (VTIAX and VWELX). > They're set to get online quotes from a single source, Alphavantage. > Can anyone provide guidance on what may be going on here? > Second question: > I have a Raspberry Pi and it would make sense to run the cron job there > since it's always up. I also use Syncthing for syncing files between > devices. However, the latest version in their repo's is GnuCash 3.4 and > Finance::Quote 1.47. Would this introduce problems to have the Pi update my > GnuCash file with price quotes? > > Thank you, > Colin > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
