An ETF is traded like a stock, so I choose to treat it as one. It behaves exactly the same. I see no difference in how any of them are handled as far as tracking my accounts, price retrieval, etc. The only thing I've ever had to handle differently in decades is when I sold an ETF based on gold. In the US, that sets you up for a rather substantial tax (For federal plus my state's tax rate for "collectables" this resulted in 40% tax). All the ETFs I've invested in are publicly traded, so getting prices for them is not a problem using Yahoo as JSON. The only thing I've had troubles with in the past is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) within a 401(k). For that I had to figure out a ratio of the ESOP price to the company stock price and make my own Perl module to "build" me a quote for the ESOP. Kind of clunky, but it worked well enough.
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