Appreciate that explanation. It is indeed considered as currency in that ISO 4217 which is internationally maintained.
I guess there needs to be a deviation between ISO's symbols and how Exchanges maintains symbols for quotes, and rightfully so. Follow on questions then, and which I think I answered it already but in case it isn't correct, how should one track its daily Exchange rate since Currencies namespace is not mutable? -----Original Message----- From: john <jra...@ceridwen.us> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2024 10:35 AM To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.pa...@usa.net> Cc: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>; Damon Hudac <d...@toadmeadow.com>; gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database XAU is a currency because ISO 4217 says it is, along with XBA (silver), XPT (platinum), and XPD (Palladium). They're supposed to represent a troy ounce of the respective metal. Keep in mind that ISO-4217 is a banking industry specification and doesn't necessarily apply to anything you as an individual investor might be doing, nor does the fact that GnuCash recognizes the symbol mean that Alphavantage or any other quote aggregator will necessarily use it for reporting. Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 9, 2024, at 15:42, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.pa...@usa.net> wrote: > > Most likely the case ... I am not sure how XAU was determined to be a currency when in fact it is an Index. I suspect it is historical carried forward ... > > Anyways, '^XAU' and 'GC=F' (or 'SI=F') will need to be added manually as attributes in the Currency namespace are not modifiable (at least I couldn't do so on Windows platform one) in the Security Editor. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2024 12:53 PM > To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database > > But XAU no longer works with Alphavantage at least. GC=F (SI=F for > silver) works fine. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 3/7/24 10:50 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: >> Oh! >> >> XAU symbol is indeed named Gold in Currencies name space which seems >> <fill_in_the_blank> ... > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
