Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-26 Thread AEG via gnucash-user
Eric Success!! Thank you very much for your detailed help with this problem. Quite by chance, I looked at "Preferences" and in "Online Quotes" discovered the need for an Alpha Vantage API key, which I hadn't seen any mention of in the tutorial. Once I had obtained and applied that key, the downlo

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Eric, Just for completeness, v3.5 is the most current. But 3.4 is what is in the 19.04 repos. For now, if you want 3.5 you’ll need to build from source. (easy to do) One list user is working on re-packaging a .deb of 3.5 to work on 19.04 and there is an unpublicized (and very experimental) Fla

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread Eric Coates
Alan Before commenting about the failure of Get Online Quotes to get anything useful a small amplification of Fred Bone's comment that *Type* can be anything you want (Fred has given his choice, I use a different set - LSE for London quoted shares, EUREX for shares quoted on continental Europ

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread AEG via gnucash-user
I think I've just figured out the Namespace/Security type from your first sentence Eric, which is that the name LSE should be used. However, I'm still not having any success with downloading quotes, even with just one stock at the time. Alan GnuCash - User mailing list wrote > Hi Eric, > > Tha

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread Fred Bone
On 25 April 2019 at 9:56, AEG said: > Hi Eric, > > Thank you for your help with this. > I understand that the Symbol/Abbreviation should be SSE.L and that agrees > with what I used to use with AceMoney, but I'm a little confused about > what should appear under the heading "Namespace" in the GnuC

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread AEG via gnucash-user
Hi Eric, Thank you for your help with this. I understand that the Symbol/Abbreviation should be SSE.L and that agrees with what I used to use with AceMoney, but I'm a little confused about what should appear under the heading "Namespace" in the GnuCash Security Editor and under the heading "Securi

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread Eric Coates
Alan Bugger! My email system added a host of unwanted backslashes to the updated part of AlphaVantage.pm. To get the right effect they should be deleted. On behalf of my email system, I tender apologies. Eric On 25/04/2019 13:52, Eric Coates wrote: Hi Alan

Re: [GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread Eric Coates
Hi Alan The namespace for LSE is L; thus Symbol/Abbreviation should be SSE.L Similarly for other LSE quoted stocks Getting the quotes themselves is a little fraught. In my experience the only source that "works" is AlphaVantage (the usual suggestion of using Yahoo-JSON returns prices that ar

[GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

2019-04-25 Thread AEG via gnucash-user
I'm using GnuCash version 2.6.21 on Windows 10 and would appreciate some help with setting up investment accounts in the UK. I have a small portfolio comprising six stocks and, following the tutorial, have successfully set up accounts for each one. However, I am not sure about the source of online