Am Freitag, 5. November 2021, 16:39:28 CET schrieben Sie: > > On Nov 5, 2021, at 4:22 AM, Rainer Dorsch via gnucash-user > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that if the price editor has an entry in EUR and an entry in > > USD, it used the EUR entry, even if the USD entry has a newer date. My > > account currency is EUR. > > > > Is that intended and is there an option to change this behavior? > > > > I usually get the EUR entry, if I buy or sell stock or funds, which are > > accounted in USD. > > GnuCash always prefers a direct conversion over an indirect one regardless > of the date. It's not optional. I suppose the problem arises because you're > trading USD-priced stocks from an EUR-denominated brokerage account and the > trades create the EUR prices. The simplest work around is to remove those > EUR prices from the pricedb; it won't affect the transaction or reports > using the average-cost price source. To avoid the problem going forward > create an intermediary USD bank account in your brokerage account hierarchy > and when recording the trade make separate splits for USD<->EUR and > stock<->USD. Chris Lam is working on a stock trading assistant to make this > a bit less cumbersome; we hope it will be finished in time for GnuCash 5. >
Thanks John for your quick reply. The scenario you describe matches well my use case. Yes, I manually delete the EUR entries in the pricedb I am looking forward to the stock trading assistant. Can you tell why GnuCash always prefers a direct conversion over an indirect one regardless of the date? Is this a bug or a feature :-) ? Thanks Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
