historical quotes

[Charles Day]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Charles Gagnon <charlesg at unixrealm.com>
wrote:

> Can gnucash get historical quotes from Yahoo! I don't need to go very
> far but for reconciliation purposes, it would be nice to run a command
> and fetch prices for 3/31/08.
>
> I import the OFX file from my broker so the securities are a lot of time
> not listed in gnucash until after I import the file which could be done
> any time in April. At that point, to compare all the values with my
> statement, I would need the prices from the closing date on the statement.
>

Personally, I don't even try to reconcile historical prices. I would just
make sure the number of shares in GnuCash matches your broker's statement,
and reconcile the cash balance.

Cheers,
Charles


> Thanks.
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