Hello, despite living a life in multiple currencies, my approach for getting current and historical currency exchange rates is not systematic at all and I have been using different sources at different times for different applications.
I would like to standardize and automate the retrieval of currency exchange rates. However, I haven't been able to find a service that offers easy and free access at historical data. I am not even sure that different sources agree on what is the mid market daily average exchange rate. I am almost ashamed of my ignorance int his field. Is there a think like an "official" number? Which sources does people use? For example, OANDA https://www1.oanda.com and fxtop https://fxtop.com/ have web data sources that could be easily scraped for data. However, the numbers do they report do not agree. In the case of OANDA the numbers reported are different depending on which tool is used to query the exchange rates, with the most simple one actually reporting the rates for the day before the requested day. Does anyone know what's the reason for doing something like this? Thank you. Best, Daniele -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/959a7fe0-6d45-f1ba-1d93-fc90a3d0a615%40grinta.net.
