> On Nov 8, 2017, at 7:17 PM, davel...@mac.com wrote: > > Thanks for all your work on this. A symbol I cannot get to work is QREARX (a > TIAA-CREF mutual fund). > > https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/QREARX?p=QREARX > > I don't know if it's something wrong with AlphaVantage or Finance::Quote. > > /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump alphavantage > qrearx > > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses: > symbol: qrearx (deduced) <=== required > date: ** missing ** <=== recommended > currency: ** missing ** <=== required > last: <=\ > nav: <=== one of these > price: <=/ > timezone: <=== optional > > ** This stock quote cannot be used by GnuCash! > > Thanks, > Dave > Use the Tiaacref module of Finance-Quote, but use “TIAAreal” as the ticker symbol. Upper/lower case matters.
It looks to me that symbols of the form QzzzRX are the new(er), public pseudo symbols associated with TIAA-CREF funds that existed in the days when the only quote source was TIAA-CREF themselves using internally generated pseudo symbols (like CREFstok, CREFequi, TIAAreal). For the funds that survived the TIAA-CREF explosion of choice, Finance-Quote still uses the original pseudo symbols to look up the 6-10 digit numeric fund ID that FQ now feeds to TIAA’s data server to get current quotes. [And then FQ reconverts the return data, which uses the newer symbols, to match the old style pseudo symbols.] Somewhat inefficient, but it does maintain compatibility for gnucash users with long-term data sets. The real estate fund may be the only one that kicks this up. All of the other older funds have split into multi-class families [(R1), (R2), and (R3)], with even relatively small schools getting their old (R1) funds upgraded to lower admin cost (R2) and (R3) units. All the newer ticker symbols that start with Q have something other than R as the next to last character. David Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
