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<li><a href="xacc-recnwin.html">The Reconcile Window</a>
<li><a href="xacc-regwin.html">The Register Window</a>
<li><a href="xacc-reports.html">Reports</a>
<li><a href="xacc-ticker.html">Stock Ticker</a>
<li><a href="xacc-double.html">Using Double Entry</a>
<li><a href="xacc-expense.html">Using Income/Expense Accounts</a>
<li><a href="xacc-y2k.html">Y2K Considerations</a>

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Stock Ticker</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=#eeeeee>
<h1>Stock Pricing and Ticker Symbols</h1>
<p>
GnuCash currently provides rudimentary automated stcok quote
abilities. If an account is properly configured, and the
host computer is connected to the internet, the binary
<tt>gnc-prices</tt> can be used to load stock or mutual fund
price quotes from various web sites directly into GnuCash.
<p>
To make use of this feature, the following must be done:
<ul>
<li>Create an account and mark it as being of type "Mutual Fund"
or "Stock".
<li>Enter a valid ticker symbol in the box marked "Security:"
<li>Select a quote source from the pull-down menu. Currently
supported quote sources include <b>Yahoo</b>, <b>Fidelity
Investments</b>, <b>T. Rowe Price</b> and the <b>Vanguard
Group</b>. Note that Yahoo will provide price quotes for
most mutual funds, including Fidelity, T.Rowe Price and
Vanguard, and that the quoted prices/NAV should be
identical to those on the source sites.
</ul>
<p>
A sample image is shown below:
</p>
<br>
<img src="ticker-a.gif">
<p>
To update the prices stored in a gnucash account file, run the
command line command <tt>gnc-price</tt>, specifying the filename;
for example:
<pre>
gnc-prices myaccts.xac
</pre>
Running this command will print various diagnostic messages to
the screen while it loads data. It will work only when the host
computer is attached to the internet. It will work if the host
is behind a masq-style firewall. It does not currently work from
behind proxy or socks-style firewalls. The command can be run
many times in one day; however, it will update the accounts
at most once with the most recent trading days price data. Thus,
if gnc-prices is run on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
only two price entires will be made: one containing Friday's
data, and one containing Monday's data, since the Saturday and
Sunday runs will only retreive the Friday closing price.
To keep gnc-prices from updating one account, while allowing it
to update another account, merely mark the data source for that
account as "(none)". You can do this from the "Edit Account"
window.
<p>
After running gnc-prices for a few days, your accounts will
begin to resemble the following:
</p>
<br>
<img src="ticker-b.gif">
<hr>
</body>
</html>