Thanks. I'm not sure I want to get that deep into it.
Yes, they were created as 'currencies' and can't be changed.
I'll just manually enter prices periodically. It is only two of them.
Regards,
Adrien
On 10/12/23 8:55 PM, Ken Farley wrote:
My guess would be that it's because they were created
My guess would be that it's because they were created as a "currency"
and can't be changed? I don't use any currencies as investments, so I
don't have any experience with this kind of thing.
If there is a way you can specify the source of the quotes (i.e. not
Alphavantage), you could take the
Thanks, but I already tried to edit them.
I can't change the symbol for lookup (it is greyed out) and the source
is simply 'currency' and no other options.
When I created entirely new securities using the symbols you provided, I
was able to edit everything including setting the source.
It l
Oh I don't think you have to do anything terribly complicated. I've had
mutual funds change their trading symbols in the past, and it was as
simple as editing the security via
Tools-> Security Editor
Changing all the perinent information for the affected securities.
Gnucash uses that info, no
Thanks Ken, I was able to add those two in a 'Precious Metals'
namespace, that indeed works.
But now how to integrate that with my existing XAU/XAG denominated accounts?
I'm guessing I'll have to make new ones with those symbols for
commodity, then delete the old accounts and let GnuCash move
Yahoo seems to use "GC=F" as the symbol for Gold. I am able to get the
price of gold as shown in the following output from gnc-fq-dump
--> gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json GC=F
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
symbol: GC=F <=== required
date: 10/04/2023 <=== recomme
Hmm... Seems that as of F::Q 1.53, Alphavantage mucked with getting
CURRENCY_EXCHANGE_RATE with the free API, so F::Q switched to a FX_DAILY
request that doesn't include Crypto or Precious Metals, but there is a
note (in the Github Issues) that Aphavantage then reversed their
decision so now pr
This has been on my back burner for some time, but I decided to tackle
it for a spell tonight.
I haven't been able to retrieve an XAG quote since June 2020, and an XAU
quote since December 2020.
I've updated F::Q, and tried running GnuCash with debug logging, but
can't seem to find anything
