It may be doing what I'm doing and making the date of the closing price
as the day the script is run.
I don't run it using cron. I run it manually and if I forget a day I
don't worry about it.
I just run one of these two commands from the terminal.
getquotes -y <-- gets the prices from Yahoo
......OR.....
getquotes -m <-- gets the prices from Market Watch
Then I import the resulting csv file that appears on my desktop.
I have two places to get the quotes so if one is unreachable for some
reason I have a backup source.
On 4/23/21 9:43 PM, David Carlson wrote:
I am not sufficiently comfortable with BASH, Chron jobs, etc to be
willing to set up an outside utility to do that. I manually download
prices inside the GnuCash price database using Yahoo as JSON as the
source. If I forget to do it in the late evening I sometimes try to
do it in the morning before the market opens as I have several stock
prices that I am also tracking. That is how I discovered the
incorrect dates on the mutual funds prices, I am not sure if, for
example, GnuCash downloads a stock price during the day, does it
replace it with a closing price if it downloads again after the market
closes. I suspect it may not even keep the timestamps that come with
the prices, so there may not be any clue about that.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:18 PM Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> wrote:
I'm not sure what you are using to updated the your prices but I
wrote a
python script & a bash script that get the quotes and put them into a
csv file for importing into GNUCash and I don't have that date
issue. I
run the scrips in the evening when the markets are closed.
On 4/23/21 8:59 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> I noticed recently that if I download mutual fund prices after
about 7 AM
> central daylight time the prices are saved in GnuCash with
todays date even
> though they are still yesterday's closing NAV until sometime
after the
> markets close. To reliably get the correct price posted on the
correct
> date it seems that I must wait until after 7PM Central time but
before 7AM
> the following morning.
>
> I would like to suggest an enhancement that if GnuCash downloads
a United
> States mutual fund price with a morning time stamp that it
presume it to be
> yesterday's closing NAV price. I would like comments from
others about
> this.
>
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