Hello @finki
Iāve spotted a few bugs/issues:
iShares Ā£ Corp Bond ex-Fncl ETF GBP Dist (IE00B4L60H17) Currency = EUR when it should be GBP
https://finki.io/callAPI.php?isin=IE00B4L60H17&function=ukCurrency
Vodafone (GB00BH4HKS39) Currency = !0123456789! ???
https://finki.io/callAPI.php?isin=GB00BH4HKS39&function=ukCurrency
Vanguard US Corp Bond Debt VUCP - IE00BZ163K21 = shows as USD when it should be GBP
https://finki.io/callAPI.php?isin=IE00BZ163K21&function=ukCurrency
Cheers
Hi @Gaz92
Thanks for this
The IE00B4L60H17 issue is one Iāve detailed before. Multi currency ETFs are a pain to reference by ISIN as ISIN (in this instance) is not unique. In their wisdom (!!) iShares listed both ISXF and SSXF against ISIN IE00B4L60H17. They differ by SEDOL. However SEDOL is a minefield to publicly display as the LSE would start chasing me for licencing fees! Therefore I default to ISIN - which is fine in 99% of cases just not in theses relitavely few multi-listed ETFs. Sorry. Same goes for IE00BZ163K21. Vanguard list VUCP and VDCP against ISIN IE00BZ163K21.
See LSE
(āDā being USD and āUā being GBP)
Regarding Vodafoneā¦ yeah, the !0123456789! is an error capture I had to install yesterday as I was trying to build a mktCap and mktCapCurrency for @Anders and Iāve inadvertently broken something and being Christmas Iām doing other thingsā¦but sit tightā¦Iāll get to it at some pointā¦ up until now Iāve not ran development and production environmentsā¦this is a classic example of why you shouldā¦ Iāve broken the production environment and I canāt work out for the life of me why or how!!! Maybe Iām just hungover from Christmas!
Thanks for the info, Iāll manually correct some stuff then.
Also, can you update Welcome to FinKi with the new functions? Obviously only when you get time! 
Has anyone built an application using Finki? A website or desktop application?
Just want to be able to estimate my yearly dividends and I donāt really have the time at the minute to write my own application
Is your API backend open-source?
I could take a look when Iām free in a month or two if you come across further issues
Not open source Iām afraid
Iām guessing quite a few people build Google sheet templates using the API as thatās where most traffic seems to stem from. Most also call dividend related functionsā¦ so youāre in good company if youāre looking to build something dividend related
Itās also usually 99.9% stable. Itās only because I lost my mind recently and updated production without testing that Iāve messed up a few function calls! So feel free to build on top of it.
@Byron I have a single-user mobile portfolio āappā because I donāt want to see security prices twitching up and down every few seconds and other encouragements to trade. It uses @finki to get the data, Google sheets as the datastore, Glide for the mobile web app wrapper thing.
(Itās interesting how popular dividend income is on Freetrade, vs capital growth.)
Well I can understand if the audience of Freetrade is younger
I want my dividends to cover my bills and one day pay me a salary + cover my bills so I can go travelling
This might be possible since Iām going into a well paying industry as well as have time on my side for compound interest (Iām 19)
I donāt want to rely on a state pension considering itās likely to be 80 before I reach it
Yes, but I think itās interesting that there arenāt many Freetraders talking about capital growth being an equally valid strategy (or even a better strategy: more compounding etc) to the same goals.
Big salute to you starting at 19, I wish I had!
Probably because Freetrade went to do the seemingly impossible - bring investing to the masses
So we have people who arenāt in the mindset that they want to take risks that a retail investor or someone typically in the middle to upper middle class would be willing to take with disposable income
Thus dividend investing and compound growth from companies that have been around and are nice and profitable makes a lot of sense
Personally I want to achieve a decent bit of wealth, so I try get some stocks for growth and then when they boom Iāll move those into dividend payers too.
Now all I need Freetrade to do is stop with bringing all the quality of life features for a while and focus on really knocking out index support (Hang Seng, Tokyo, Hanoi, Frankfurt, Fukuoka) + Freetrade web
Very similar to my setup. I like Glide, very easy to make a professional looking āappā quickly.
You could just hold VWRL while you wait for that
I know I could technically do that but, I do my research into individual companies very thoroughly before I invest, because I want a good return on investment
I read all the news I can find on the company
I make sure I have a general understanding of the industry if not a deeper understanding of the industry
I donāt want some fund manager deciding what is to be and what is to be not when theyāre going to do about as good a job as I could but include fees with it
P.S. itās paying off, I saw PPI claims deadline was coming and I invested into Lloydās and Barclays. They spiked directly after and I sold just before they hit peak
I saw ITM Energy and bought into it after reading a bit about the deal it has with another company, as itās quite cheap and I believe hydrogen will be very important in the future due to the byproduct of it being water
I say this but my return on investment is only like 4% or so, but money is money and Iām in it for the long game
It would be interesting to have a percentage of your pot @Byron in an index tracker thatās as global and as low cost as possible. Then youāll have a target to try beat with your stock selection, and a hedge should your stock selection be wrong.
(Iām biased: I believe itās basically impossible for the average retail investor to consistently identify the few stocks thatāll drive stock market outperformance, so Iāve a big % in trackers.)
Are you Australian? The fires, so horrible.
Weāre now getting quite far off the āFinkiā topic I guess.
Youād be correct, but I have quite some time left and Iād rather swim with my own arms than require 2 paddles and a team of rowers to power my boat
No, I did however see that some girls on Twitter were offering risquĆ© photos in return for $10+ donations to the cause if that tickles anyoneās fancy if theyāre reading this thread
Their handle is āthe naked philanthropistā
I considered donating but my budget is really strict and thereās just no room for it and eating
Ah yes, Finki! Dividends!
Quick update to the Finki API table that I managed to delete and not realise!
This doesnāt contain ALL the API calls available - but most of the ones I can see you guys are using daily.
If you use other functionCalls - they still exist and still work theyāre just not detailed in this table.
Thanks to those eagle eyes that spotted my table error.
