We can use this information to at least get the closing prices for all the stocks in one go and then fill them into the prices for Gnucash. Only, the AMFI NAV text file is delimited by semi-colons. This now implies that the stock prices are available in a similar style as the AMFI India Mutual Fund NAVs text file. On viewing the EQ141013.CSV file, we find that stock quotes are available for all stocks in a comma-delimited format.
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You can download this file to get a comma-delimited record for each BSE stock from EQ141013.CSV as on 14th October, 2013. At end of day, the BSE puts up an updated bhavcopy at this link. Bhavcopy is nothing but stock information at end of a trading day. Found that the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) website had something called a bhavcopy. Looked over the internet to see if there is any other source that can provide the stock quotes. Therefore, to overcome this situation, here is what I did for them. Inefficient, but it works.Ī drawback is that they could not monitor Mutual Fund NAVs as it did not retrieve those values from the AMFI website, but retrieved what it could from Google Finance. They could manually enter the closing prices into the P MumbaiStock.pmrice Editor in Gnucash from JStock. All they had to do was to enter their list of stocks into it, and track it, away from the core Gnucash they were used to. I know of one product called JStock, that I recommended they use as a stop-gap till a solution is found for Gnucash. They approached me to see if there was a method to get away from Yahoo Finance and use something else like Google Finance. The constraint being they wanted a tool that worked both on Linux & Windows. This meant they had to either decide to enter the Quotes manually (very labor intensive), or to migrate away from Gnucash to a different personal finance tool.
Unfortunately since the past few months, they could not retrieve these stock quotes to get a correct picture of their Portfolio. They configured and used Gnucash to retrieve online price quotes from the NSE or the BSE through Yahoo Finance.
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Visit this other post to know how to add the MumbaiStock.pm to Gnucash and use it.Ī friend of mine uses Gnucash to manage their personal finances. The objective is to share how the MumbaiStock.pm module was created.