Thank you for your helpful follow-up.
I couldn't find FinanceAPI but did find information that looks promising on
MorningstarUK, where I was able to download factsheets, and those provide the
following details:
For the HSBC fund:ISIN GB00B76WP695Bloomberg ticker HSWIPCA LNSEDOL
B76WP69
and for the Vanguard fund:ISIN GB00B3TYHH97Bloomberg ticker VGLS60A
SEDOL B3TYHH9
I haven't tried those yet in GnuCash as it seems to be working with different
tickers, but with the HSBC ticker shown above I'm wondering whether the space
within it has any significance, as most others I've seen and used have a .L at
the end.
Regards,AlanG
On Thursday 20 November 2025 at 22:54:53 GMT, Bruce Schuck
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/20/25 12:21, aeg wrote:
> In trying to set it up, I also found it difficult to find the
> correct ticker symbol to use, as different searches returned
> different results, and I'm now further puzzled that the Symbol shown
> in your examples below uses the ISIN code!
That can be a sticky wicket, and there is no easy answer. Especially
true for things like funds and bonds. Using a US based source for funds,
one has to find what suffix to add. For example, adding ".L" to the
ISINs, the prices for those two funds can be retrieved from FinanceAPI
(an API Token based source).
~$ gnucash-cli --quotes dump financeapi GB00B76WP695.L GB00B41XG308.L
Finance::Quote fields GnuCash uses:
symbol: GB00B76WP695.L <=== required
date: 06/28/2019 <=== recommended
currency: GBP <=== required
last: 1.7 <=\
nav: <=== one of these
price: <=/
Finance::Quote fields GnuCash uses:
symbol: GB00B41XG308.L <=== required
date: 06/28/2019 <=== recommended
currency: GBP <=== required
last: 195.45 <=\
nav: <=== one of these
price: <=/
In summary you will sometimes need to go to the websites the sources use
and determine the proper symbol.
Currently FTFunds and MorningstarUK only allow ISINs to be used for lookups.
Thank you.
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