No problem David. I fully understand the problems you folks have to deal
with and fortunately, I simply need to track a bunch of mutual funds,
Once a month or once a quarter to manually update will be fine for now.
I'm sticking with Gnucash.
No need to get back to me but I'm pretty sure I have the yahoo:Finance
modules installed and although I selected Yahoo JSON, and a bunch of
other drop down selections, nothing worked which surprised me.
Alphavantage was not an option even when I upgraded to a much newer
version.
Anyway, thank you and I wish you the best!
Ron
On 04/16/2019 09:41 AM, David Carlson wrote:
Ronjnk,
Updating stock prices has never been as trivial as we wish it to be in
Gnucash.
It is necessary to decide which stocks we want to follow, then go
through several steps , including using the security editor for each
one to define what source to get the price from, using the price
editor on each to choose whether to include it in the update session,
setting up finance:quote module with the configuration details to
perform updates, and finally manually starting the process whenever
the prices are wanted.
Then it doesn't go smoothly so there is a tedious process to resolve
whatever part did not work as desired.
Even manually using the price editor to manually search through the
list of stocks and add selected prices one at a time is a major headache.
It is enough to drive a person to use a different program altogether
to track their stocks, and there are some out there. Even a couple of
free ones that are far easier to use.
You could Google stock price trackers to see what you find.
I personally just get prices once a month or once a quarter in
GnuCash, and use a different program to track day to day so I can
talk intelligently with my broker.
GnuCash just doesn't track stocks as a feature.
David Carlson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 5:12 AM ronjnk <ron...@xplornet.com
<mailto:ron...@xplornet.com>> wrote:
Hello David,
Just a final note. Again, thank you for your help. I'm going to
give up
at this point and update prices manually. I don't want to be going
into
the terminal to get my software to work. Much too complicated. I
understand the developers count on a reliable price quote and when
Yahoo
changes on a whim, it ruins everything and drives the developers
crazy.
Gnucash is a fantastic program and I thank all developers who work on
it. Hopefully on some future version, it will all work again as it
has
in the past. All the best!
Ron
On 04/11/2019 12:33 PM, David T. wrote:
> You don’t tell us; are you using Yahoo! as your price source?
Yahoo! dismembered its quote source website a while back, and
GnuCash users have had to seek out other sources. One source is
AlphaVantage, while another is “Yahoo! as JSON”. If you set up
your accounts to use one of these (preferably the latter), do you
still get the errors?
>
> Note: you will need Finance::Quote verson 1.47; if you want to
use AlphaVantage, there are instructions on the wiki; I believe
that the FAQ has links to the instructions.
>
> David
>
>> On Apr 10, 2019, at 6:08 PM, ronjnk <ron...@xplornet.com
<mailto:ron...@xplornet.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello to all. I have GnuCash 2.6.15 installed on my MX18 and
all works fine
>> except the Get quotes price updater. I get an error message
"There was an
>> unknown error while retrieving the price quotes." I've toyed
with this for
>> hours and installed everything I could find on the net to no avail.
>>
>> I can see the finance quote module load at start up but I
cannot get a box
>> to show up to even change my data source. I am a user from long
ago and the
>> program is awesome and the price updater has worked in years
past. This is a
>> new computer and new OS install but I'v tried to confirm I have
all modules
>> installed and as far as I know, everything is in place but
won't work.
>>
>> I also upgraded to a much newer version and not only didn't
price updater
>> not work, the new asset values was completely different from
the older
>> version. I lost money. So I uninstalled and went back to this
older version.
>> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I am manually
updating about a
>> dozen quotes.
>>
>> Thank you! Ron
>>
>>
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