On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 9:22 AM David T. <[email protected]> wrote: > To answer this question, the security editor screen can be configured to > show both the Get Quotes toggle, as well as the price source. Resizing the > default tiny screen bigger will show you the drop down button on the far > right, which includes a number of fields for display. >
Thank you. That allowed me to find many currencies (that I do not care about) with Get Quotes checked. > For the record, it would have been nice if you had used your earlier > message on the topic to continue this discussion. > OK. However, I need an easy way to find out which securities I am getting quotes for (which the above is perfect). > That way, we could have more easily discussed the other aspects of this-- > notably, that the online retrieval of quotes can take some time, and that > there are a number of ways that the process can fail. > > In regards to time: I've had times where this process takes an inordinate > amount of time-- on the order of many minutes. You don't say how many > quotes you're trying to get. Finance::Quote can be quite slow with large > numbers of quotes. This can happen for a number of reasons, but they aren't > always clear. I chalk it up to the wonders of internet latency. You didn't > say how long you waited before you gave up. > There were about 60. I had waited several minutes. > Second, there have been times where the retrieval of quotes has been > limited or throttled by Alphavantage. I seem to recall that they imposed > some limit (like 5) per minute. This limitation has tripped up numerous > users in the past. You didn't say whether you were using Alphavantage or > not, although your original message included information that might imply > it. The workaround I recall was to use yahoo_json instead. > Today, I removed Get Quotes from everything except for one stock. When I did Get Quotes, it finished in a couple of seconds. I then added in 10 mutual funds. Get Quotes then took one or two minutes. And, the quotes it got from Alphavantage were from a mixture of 5/5 (Thursday) and 5/6 (Friday). I then changed Alphavantage to yahoo_json and Get Quotes finished in a few seconds. And the prices are from today 5/9 (Monday). > Finally, if you have a bad symbol in your set, that's like the only time > you actually will get a meaningful error from Finance::Quote. So, I'm > guessing that your problem has to do with not allowing the process to > complete, rather than a bad symbol. > There was one security that had a strange symbol (might have been the CUSIP). I changed it to the 5 letter symbol. I was not getting any error message. On May 9, 2022 10:17:05 AM EDT, Fred Tydeman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there a way to get a report of all the securities that have Get Online >> Quotes checked? >> >> Perhaps I have a bad Symbol/abbreviation and that is what is causing the >> Get Quotes to hang. >> ------------------------------ >> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ 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.
