On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:06 AM Justus Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 6:49:30 PM UTC+7, Patrick Ruckstuhl > wrote: >> >> Not really I'm accessing different markets which have different times and >> some don't have a price every day, so the price date might be a previous >> day. >> > > Sure, I do that, too. I'm still not seeing the problem. Run bean-price and > use the price at that time. Why does it matter if you store an intraday > price? What do you think happens when you buy or sell something in > beancount? The intraday price gets added to the price map. I don't think > beancount is really meant for use cases where the difference between the > price at 3pm and 4:30pm is material. > That's correct. (Well, the correct price will be attached to the Posting object, but for computing market value, there's one price/day.) Anyway, it is really bothers you to have intraday prices then wait a day, > or a week, and then use bean-price to get the prices from 2 or 3 days using > the -d parameter once everything is closed & finalized. > For intra-day values you can upload your portfolio contents to a google sheets doc and feed live prices. That's what I do. My code for it is located here (it's a little bit custom, you may need to add similar metadata fields): https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/beancount/projects/export.py > > Or run bean-price twice a day (or four times a day) and only fetch prices > for markets that are closed when you run it. > > I'm honestly kind of struggling to understand what explicit support you're > looking for from bean-price here. Can you elaborate on that a bit? What's > the exact usage you envision from beancount? > I'm also a little bit confused. > -- 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%2BhPP_6Z0MX-Su3-%3DdHBR4REU-WUgd6PLmmxN-wTrE26E6g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
