Multi-currency support

[nitorrep]

Hi !
I've just tried you app and it seems really promising, do you plain to be able to handle other currency than USD?
I'm from Switzerland and not all my investments are in USD, so it would be great to be able to do so

[hackeresq]

Hi @nitorrep this is on the roadmap! (Discussion #15)

Still tinkering with how this will have to work from a data architecture perspective. So far there have been two struggles with multi-currency support:

1. Some market data providers don't include the currency in their schemas, which could limit future extensibility
2. Summing up the totals between holdings traded in different currencies would require converting to a common currency first.

Would be interested to hear how the community would tackle these two considerations?

[nitorrep]

HI @hackeresq ,
You should maybe "just" (I love saying that, it's never "just" that easy ) have exchanges rates stored (If you want to avoid to store all exchange rate you could rather have all echange rates against USD and then convert twice. For exemple you have a transaction in EUR in a CHF portfolio (From EUR -> USD then from USD -> CHF).

And after on your structure you might define a reference currency at portfolio level and convert transactions (Who could be in any currency) to this main currency, same for valuations.