I had "C Fund" as the symbol value instead of "C" for the 'Symbol/abbreviation' and 'Display symbol' fields. The quotes were successfully retrieved after removing the 'Fund' string from the fields.
Thanks for the guidance! On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM Ken Farley <farle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since I don't know what you've set up in Gnucash for your particular > accounts, I'll just list the things done to get online quotes. > > (A) Set up a security. This is the "definition" of the actual security, > the stuff that will be used by Gnucash to get quotes, via Perl's > Finance::Quote. Looking at the TSP quote retrieval module for Perl, I > see that the available symbols for TSP funds are C, F, G, I, S, and the > various "L" funds, like L2020, L2024, or whatever. > > (B) So, an example would be a security for the common stock fund. I'd > create this security with the following: > > Full Name -> TSP Common Stock Fund > > Symbol/abbreviation -> C > > Display symbol -> C > > Namespace -> FUND > > Check Get Online Quotes > > Set Source to Single, scroll down to the TSP one you noted, US Govt > Thrift Savings Plan > > (C) Now when you tell Gnucash to get quotes, it should retrieve the last > price for this fund, etc. It'll generate entries in the price database. > If you use the security by setting the Use Security/Currency field on an > account, that price will be used to calculate the current value of the > account. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
