Thanks, but I already tried to edit them.
I can't change the symbol for lookup (it is greyed out) and the source
is simply 'currency' and no other options.
When I created entirely new securities using the symbols you provided, I
was able to edit everything including setting the source.
It looks like I'll just wait until if/when F::Q changes back their
Alphavantage call to include PMs.
Regards,
Adrien
On 10/5/23 3:53 PM, Ken Farley wrote:
Oh I don't think you have to do anything terribly complicated. I've had
mutual funds change their trading symbols in the past, and it was as
simple as editing the security via
Tools-> Security Editor
Changing all the perinent information for the affected securities.
Gnucash uses that info, not the accounts, to determine what price
applies to which particular lot of a particular security. I'll admit I
also changed the name and description of the accounts, but that's only
because I use the security name as the account name for a particular
asset (i.e. Assets:Investments:My Brokerage:XYZ is the sub-account of
"My Brokerage" that tracks my shares of "XYZ").
Alternatively, I suppose you could just change the "Symbol/abbreviation"
to the relevant "code". That is the text that is used in online quote
retrieval. Leave "XAU" and "XAG" as the display symbols for each. I'll
admit I've not done this myself, so you'll have to see how it works out
for you as far as reports and such look. But I definitely have never had
to create new accounts to deal with symbol changes.
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