On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 7:13:37 PM UTC-8, Justus Pendleton wrote: > > On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 8:51:51 AM UTC+7, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> 2) Is there a way to automatically determine exchange and ticker with >> morningstar so I don't have to manually find it for each ticker I have? >> > > Nope. The simple (and obvious when you think about it) answer is that > tickers aren't globally unique, they are simply unique to an exchange. > (Because why would exchanges care if a symbol is globally unique or not as > long as it is unique on their exchange?) Since tickers aren't globally > unique, how do you "automatically" determine an exchange and ticker? > > Take "VEU" as an example. Do you mean the Vanguard FTSE All World ex-US > ETF that is listed on ARCX in the US? Or the one listed on the ASX in > Australia? Or the ones that Vanguard is about to list on exchanges in > Europe now that they've expanded abroad? >
I was simply looking for a drop-in replacement for the erstwhile yahoo/google price lookups. I just about realized yesterday that tickers aren't globally unique. So what you have makes sense. I'm assuming a --country= patch could resolve the exchange when possible, but manual commodity entries will suffice for myself for now. Thanks again! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f5eecf62-6616-4132-9156-c6f2a575a781%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
