> On Aug 12, 2015, at 2:13 PM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote:
> It might help to consider what the price db is used for: Aside from providing 
> a default rate in the transfer dialog, it’s used for pricing assets in the 
> Accounts page and the summary bar — only the latest entry is used there. It’s 
> used for calculating values in reports, where the reports can use a weighted 
> average, nearest in time, most recent, or average cost. I need to look to see 
> if the average cost actually looks at the buy transactions or if it does 
> something similar to nearest in time and at weighted average to see what it’s 
> averaging and how it’s weighting the averaged values. Depending on what those 
> two are doing might drive whether multiple F::Q entries per day make sense, 
> assuming that the algorithms make sense.

OK, I’ve looked. They don’t use the price db, which is what one would expect. 
Weighted-average is weighted by the transaction size, which will be distorted 
by stock splits but is otherwise OK.

Regards,
John Ralls


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