function get_balances {

  g_echo_note "RUNNING FUNCTION ${FUNCNAME} $@"
  
  local f_filename="EXCHANGE_GET_BALANCES_CMD"
  
  # get data from API
  if [ ${STOCK_EXCHANGE} = "BINANCE" ]
  then
    binance_convert_dust
    binance-api-call GET sapi/v1/capital/config/getall || return 1
    # parse outout
    cat ${g_tmp}/API_CMD_OUT | jq -r '.[] | .coin + "," + .free' | egrep -v ",0$|,0[\.][0]*$|${TRANSFER_CURRENCY}" | sort >${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw
  fi

  if ! [ -s ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw ] && egrep -q "^[A-Z]+,[0-9]*\.[0-9]+$" ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw
  then
    g_echo_warn "${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw has wrong Syntax or is empty. - Not updating ${f_filename}_OUT $(tail -n 10 ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw)"
    return 2
  fi

  # CURRENCY is defined 
  if [ -n "${CURRENCY}" ]
  then
    
    # put balance of (main) currency in global CURRENCY_BALANCE
    local f_CURRENCY_BALANCE=$(egrep "^${CURRENCY}," ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw | cut -d"," -f2)
    if echo "${f_CURRENCY_BALANCE}" | egrep -q "^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*"
    then
      CURRENCY_BALANCE=${f_CURRENCY_BALANCE}
      g_echo_note "Investmentbudget: $CURRENCY_BALANCE $CURRENCY"
    else
      g_echo_warn "Could not determine CURRENCY_BALANCE (${f_CURRENCY_BALANCE} ${CURRENCY}) from file ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw $(cat ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw)"
      return 3
    fi
    
    # add balance in CURRNCY
    local f_line
    for f_line in $(cat ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp_raw)
    do
      local f_ASSET=$(echo ${f_line} | cut -d, -f1)
      local f_QUANTITY=$(echo ${f_line} | cut -d, -f2)
      
      if [ "${f_ASSET}" = "${CURRENCY}" ]
      then
        g_echo_note "own currency line $f_line"
        echo "${f_ASSET},${f_QUANTITY},$f_QUANTITY,1.00000000" >>${f_filename}_OUT.tmp
        continue
      fi 
     
      local f_ASSET_HIST_FILE="asset-histories/${f_ASSET}${CURRENCY}.history.csv"
      if ! [ -s ${f_ASSET_HIST_FILE} ]
      then
        g_echo_note "No history file (${f_ASSET_HIST_FILE}) found for asset (${f_ASSET}) - ignoring $f_line."
        continue
      fi
      
      # ignore non traded currencies by bot
      ls trade-histories/trade-*.${f_ASSET}${CURRENCY}-open.history.csv >/dev/null 2>&1 || continue
      
      # get last prices
      local f_LAST_EXCHANGE_PRICE=$(tail -n1 ${f_ASSET_HIST_FILE} | head -n1 | cut -d, -f2)
      if ! echo "$f_LAST_EXCHANGE_PRICE" | egrep -q "^[0-9]"
      then
        g_echo_warn "didn't get latest price from ${f_ASSET_HIST_FILE}"
        continue
      fi
      
      # calculate quantity in CURRENCY
      local f_QUANTITY_CURRENCY=$(echo "scale=8; $f_LAST_EXCHANGE_PRICE*$f_QUANTITY" | bc -l | sed 's/^\./0./;')
      if ! echo "$f_QUANTITY_CURRENCY" | egrep -q "^[0-9]"
      then
        g_echo_warn "could not calculate quantity in ${CURRENCY}"
        continue
      fi

      # ignore low values
      if [ $(echo "$f_QUANTITY_CURRENCY < 2" | bc -l) -ne 0 ]
      then
        g_echo_note "${f_ASSET}: Ignore low quantity asset ${f_ASSET}(${f_QUANTITY})"
        continue
      else
        g_echo_note "${f_ASSET}: Going on with non-low quantity (>1) asset ${f_ASSET}(${f_QUANTITY})"
      fi
      
      echo "${f_ASSET},${f_QUANTITY},${f_QUANTITY_CURRENCY},${f_LAST_EXCHANGE_PRICE}" >>${f_filename}_OUT.tmp
    done
  fi

  if [ -s ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp ] && egrep -q "^[A-Z]+,[0-9]*\.[0-9]+,[0-9]*\.[0-9]+,[0-9]*\.[0-9]+$" ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp
  then
    mv ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp ${f_filename}_OUT
  else
    g_echo_warn "${f_filename}_OUT.tmp has wrong Syntax or is empty. - Not updating ${f_filename}_OUT $(tail -n 10 ${f_filename}_OUT.tmp)"
    return 2
  fi

  # get complete spot balance
  local f_SPOT_BALANCE=0
  local f_EXCHANGE_GET_BALANCES_CMD_OUT
  for f_EXCHANGE_GET_BALANCES_CMD_OUT in $(cat EXCHANGE_GET_BALANCES_CMD_OUT | grep -v ^$CURRENCY,)
  do
    #local f_ASSET=$(echo ${f_EXCHANGE_GET_BALANCES_CMD_OUT} | cut -d"," -f1)
    local f_QUANTITY_CURRENCY=$(echo ${f_EXCHANGE_GET_BALANCES_CMD_OUT} | cut -d"," -f3)
    local f_SPOT_BALANCE=$(echo "scale=2; $f_SPOT_BALANCE+$f_QUANTITY_CURRENCY" | bc -l)
  done

  # calculate complete balance
  local f_COMPLETE_BALANCE=$(echo "scale=2; $CURRENCY_BALANCE+$f_SPOT_BALANCE" | bc -l)
  local f_timestamp=$(g_date_print)

  # write balance history
  echo "$f_timestamp,$f_COMPLETE_BALANCE" >>"asset-histories/BALANCECOMPLETE${CURRENCY}.history.csv"
  echo "$f_timestamp,$f_SPOT_BALANCE" >>"asset-histories/BALANCESPOT${CURRENCY}.history.csv"
  echo "$f_timestamp,$CURRENCY_BALANCE" >>"asset-histories/BALANCE${CURRENCY}.history.csv"
  
  ### global vars for overall performance last day, week, month
  #get_rate_percentage_min_before_and_now BALANCECOMPLETE ${CURRENCY} 1440
  #f_perf_day=${f_exchange_rate_diff_percentage}
  #get_rate_percentage_min_before_and_now BALANCECOMPLETE ${CURRENCY} 10080
  #f_perf_week=${f_exchange_rate_diff_percentage}
  #get_rate_percentage_min_before_and_now BALANCECOMPLETE ${CURRENCY} 43200
  #f_perf_month=${f_exchange_rate_diff_percentage}

}