add stock-ticker info

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--- a/Docs/ticker-b.gif
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      <li><a href="xacc-recnwin.html">The Reconcile Window</a>
      <li><a href="xacc-regwin.html">The Register Window</a>
      <li><a href="xacc-reports.html">Reports</a>
+      <li><a href="xacc-ticker.html">Stock Ticker</a>
      <li><a href="xacc-double.html">Using Double Entry</a>
      <li><a href="xacc-expense.html">Using Income/Expense Accounts</a>
      <li><a href="xacc-y2k.html">Y2K Considerations</a>
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Stock Ticker</title>
+  </head>
+  
+  <body bgcolor=#eeeeee>
+    <h1>Stock Pricing and Ticker Symbols</h1>
+    <p>
+    GnuCash currently provides rudimentary automated stcok quote 
+    abilities.  If an account is properly configured, and the 
+    host computer is connected to the internet, the binary 
+    <tt>gnc-prices</tt> can be used to load stock or mutual fund 
+    price quotes from various web sites directly into GnuCash.
+    <p>
+    To make use of this feature, the following must be done:
+    <ul>
+    <li>Create an account and mark it as being of type "Mutual Fund"
+        or "Stock".
+    <li>Enter a valid ticker symbol in the box marked "Security:"
+    <li>Select a quote source from the pull-down menu.  Currently
+        supported quote sources include <b>Yahoo</b>, <b>Fidelity
+        Investments</b>, <b>T. Rowe Price</b> and the <b>Vanguard
+        Group</b>.  Note that Yahoo will provide price quotes for
+        most mutual funds, including Fidelity, T.Rowe Price and
+        Vanguard, and that the quoted prices/NAV should be 
+        identical to those on the source sites.
+    </ul>
+    <p>
+    A sample image is shown below:
+    </p>
+    <br>
+    <img src="ticker-a.gif">
+
+    <p>
+    To update the prices stored in a gnucash account file, run the
+    command line command <tt>gnc-price</tt>, specifying the filename;
+    for example:
+<pre>
+    gnc-prices myaccts.xac
+</pre>
+    Running this command will print various diagnostic messages to
+    the screen while it loads data.  It will work only when the host
+    computer is attached to the internet.  It will work if the host
+    is behind a masq-style firewall.  It does not currently work from
+    behind proxy or socks-style firewalls.  The command can be run
+    many times in one day; however, it will update the accounts
+    at most once with the most recent trading days price data.  Thus,
+    if gnc-prices is run on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
+    only two price entires will be made: one containing Friday's 
+    data, and one containing Monday's data, since the Saturday and
+    Sunday runs will only retreive the Friday closing price.
+    To keep gnc-prices from updating one account, while allowing it
+    to update another account, merely mark the data source for that
+    account as "(none)".  You can do this from the "Edit Account" 
+    window.
+    <p>
+    After running gnc-prices for a few days, your accounts will
+    begin to resemble the following:
+    </p>
+    <br>
+    <img src="ticker-b.gif">
+     
+
+    <hr>
+    
+  </body>
+</html>