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Posted by Bob L on February 6, 2007, 11:33 am
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> Bob L wrote:
>>> Bob L wrote:
>>>>> Bob L wrote:
>>>>>> I recently activated One Step Update for an investment
>>>>>> account in which I hold several securities which pay
>>>>>> dividends but do not change in value. Now, every time
>>>>>> I do a One Sept Update, Quicken updates the price for
>>>>>> each of those securities.
>>>>>> I'm made sure that those securities don't have stock
>>>>>> symbols and that they are not selected for quote
>>>>>> downloads.
>>>>>> Is there a way that I can turn off price download for
>>>>>> these securities?
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>>>>> I think those prices are coming from your financial
>>>>> institution, and I doubt you can stop them.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I'm not clear what your concern is: are you worried
>>>>> about too many prices in the price history, or ...? I
>>>>> am now getting my Smith Barney money market fund's
>>>>> price updated every day despite the fact that it is
>>>>> always $1/share - and Quicken price downloads don't
>>>>> update money market fund prices, so they have to be
>>>>> coming from Smith Barney downloaded holdings. I will
>>>>> probably remove most of those prices when I get a
>>>>> round tuit, but I don't know any way to prevent them
>>>>> from coming.
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>>>> My concern is that for one of the securities that
>>>> changes only monthly, I've entered the price (which I
>>>> calculate) and kept the number of shares constant. The
>>>> financial institution keeps the price at $1/shr and
>>>> changes the number of shares each month. Not a big
>>>> deal really since I've only had this investment for
>>>> maybe 3 years but I'll have to re-enter the price data
>>>> to make it work the way is will be downloaded. If
>>>> there were a way I could stop the updates on this
>>>> security, I'd do it.
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>>> I don't have any good ideas at the moment. But I'm
>>> curious: are you saying that you have already entered a
>>> price in your price history, then your download changes
>>> the price you entered? How are you entering your price?
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>> I've been entering data for this account manually for
>> several years and only tried online downloads this past
>> weekend. For the security in question which is repriced
>> monthly, I originally entered it as though the number of
>> shares remained fixed and the price changed. The
>> brokerage firm lists it as the price fixed at $1 and
>> resets the number of shares. When I update online of
>> course the price downloads as $1 and the number of shares
>> varies.
>> Since the security is only repriced once a month, I'd
>> rather continue manually enter the data.
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> I was trying to get at the specific steps you took to cause a
> price to be entered in your price history. Did you enter a
> transaction in the account? Did you edit the price history
> directly? And did you enter the price with the same date that
> the download used?
>
> I am trying to figure out why the download would change a price
> you entered. My recolletion is that usually only happens if
> your price came from a transaction you entered, not if you
> updated your price directly in the price history. (And it's
> possible that price updates from downloaded fi holdings do not
> follow the same rules.)
>
> What version of Quicken are you using?
>
I calculate the price the security would be given the number of shares I
originally bought and the current value. I'm using Q2007 Premier.
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