Spot Prices for Gold & Silver

rbw111
rbw111 Quicken Mac Subscription Member ✭✭✭
edited November 2025 in Investments

Quicken should be able to update Gold & Silver Inventory based on spot prices. I can go to a website and lookup the spot prices for each precious metals and update Quicken manually. It should be part of the Net Worth. Need to allow the user select: country = USA & measurement: Gold= grams & Silver = ounces.

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  • rbw111
    rbw111 Quicken Mac Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Spot prices

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2025

    Setting up securities with the ticker symbols ^XAUUSD for gold and ^XAGUSD for silver should work, they do for QWin.

    Both prices are per troy ounce, so you may need to adjust your gold holdings accordingly

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  • BillBelanger
    BillBelanger Quicken Mac Other Member ✭✭
    https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20499277#Comment_20499277

    Thanks Jim, they work in the Windows version, not Mac. It's very frustrating for us Mac users who pay for a product that seems to be deaf to the needs of the users who purchase a product expecting it to work.

  • BillBelanger
    BillBelanger Quicken Mac Other Member ✭✭

    Does it help if we keep asking the same question? We can track bitcoin in quicken business and personal but not gold? Just doesn’t seem right so I will ask once again to the developers would you please give us a symbol that will allow us to keep track of gold by the ounce. Thanks

    Bill

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am surprised that the symbols listed above work for Windows but not for Mac.

    Adding comments regularly to an Idea post brings it back to the top of the Recent Discussions list and thus gives it more visibility.

    If you haven't already voted by clicking on the little up arrow below the vote count in the first post of the discussion, that helps too. This Idea currently has 3 votes; it takes many more (30?) for a Mac Idea to be considered for implementation.

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  • BillBelanger
    BillBelanger Quicken Mac Other Member ✭✭

    Thanks Jim. Yes I have voted but I’ll go back and look again and see if I can maybe vote again. I’m also surprised that it works on windows, but from what I can gather from ChatGPT is that the windows platform uses a different exchange and those symbols are not valid on the Mac version. A bit surprising for sure.

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unfortunately "Vote early, vote often" does not help.

    If you have already voted, the little arrow will be gray, not black. If you try to vote again it will undo your original vote and reduce the count. Voting a 3rd time reinstates your vote.

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  • PAUser
    PAUser Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    The symbol ^XAUUSD does not work for me in Quicken Classic for Windows (American version). I've tried all of the instructions that I've been able to find online and none work for me. Additionally, ChatGPT confirms that it will not work.

    It's interesting/confusing that it appears to work for some but not others.

  • BillBelanger
    BillBelanger Quicken Mac Other Member ✭✭

    I don’t understand why a flaw in a program needs ”votes” to be fixed. It seems to me that Mac users are being punished. This is a basic accounting program and keeping track of assets shouldn’t be platform specific.

  • encj
    encj Quicken Windows Subscription Member

    The tracking code for gold is working on my windows Quicken Classic, but the Silver code isn't working. Is there something I can do to fix it?

  • Scott14
    Scott14 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭
    edited January 12

    The ticker symbols mentioned work for me, however they don't work when I use the "Update Accounts" function. All other securities update price, volume , etc., but ^XAUUSD and ^XAGUSD don't automatically update. I need to find either in my Security List , select it, and click "Update". It then updates both silver and gold ( and probably all my other securities as well). Anyone else having the same issue?

  • BillBelanger
    BillBelanger Quicken Mac Other Member ✭✭

    Scott you’re on Quicken Windows right?

    Bill

  • NotACPA
    NotACPA Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20531763#Comment_20531763

    Do you actually hold Gold or Silver? Or, alternatively, have you included them on your "Watch List"?

    If NO to both questions, Q won't download quotes.

    Q user since February, 1990. DOS Version 4
    Now running Quicken Windows Subscription, Business & Personal
    Retired "Certified Information Systems Auditor" & Bank Audit VP

  • BillBelanger
    BillBelanger Quicken Mac Other Member ✭✭

    I hold both gold and silver of coins. When I add a stock ticker symbol, it finds it and brings current price when I enter the symbols for gold and silver, quicken can’t find anything but I’m quicken on Mac and I’m understanding that’s the difference

  • PAUser
    PAUser Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    I've posted before but am doing so again. I am using Q for Windows 11. The symbols for gold and silver posted above do not update prices for me. I also own both.

  • Jon
    Jon Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta

    This is a Product Idea thread for Quicken Mac, not Quicken Windows.

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