On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Justus Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 8:51:51 AM UTC+7, [email protected] wrote: >> >> 1) How do I get bean-price to use this by default? I don't use commodity >> directives in my sources >> > > You have to use commodity directives. > > >> 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? > > Is SPY the SPY on ARCX or the ASX? > > Is GOOGL ("Alphabet Inc A") the one on XNAS (quoted in USD) or XMIL > (quoted in Euros)? > > Is GE the one on the NYSE or the one on XMIL (GE Gefran SpA)? > That's just one dimension of uniqueness; the other is where do you fetch the price? As in, do you fetch the price of ARCX:SPY from Google or Yahoo? So basically, the right thing to do here, since each user has a limited number of commodities, is simply to use the Commodity directives and be explicit about where you want your prices to come from. > > And so on. If your answer is "well, I'm an American so it should default > to picking all the things an American would pick....", I'm willing to > accept a --american patch but I'm Australian. :) > > -- > 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/bfa83ffb-2676-4439-ba13-5ec486bb4ce8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/bfa83ffb-2676-4439-ba13-5ec486bb4ce8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAK21%2BhMTEv6LYw1-GhPgEZKGq%2BCcwhHi9nppRE_y2aRbckmzAA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
