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Posted by John Pollard on May 28, 2008, 12:58 pm
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TomYoung wrote:
> On May 27, 10:44 am, "John Pollard" wrote:
>> TomYoung wrote:
>>> OK, finally, FINALLY!, Quicken came clean and admitted that
>>> there is a
>>> problem with Etrade price updates and that the problem IS on
>>> Quicken's
>>> end. The Quicken tech I spoke to also confirmed that
>>> SECURITY
>>> PRICES
>>> COME FROM QUICKEN, NOT FROM ETRADE. (Based solely on what I
>>> just
>>> stated there, I hope I didn't jump to any conclusions.)
>> I am working on gathering more information on this subject;
>> when
>> enough information becomes available to make it usable, I'll
>> post it here; then I'll leave it to you, and others, to
>> decide
>> whether you may have been too anxious to believe certain
>> things.
>>
>> Here's a good place to start because my wording in previous
>> posts may have contributed to a mis-understanding on your
>> part.
>>
>> In a diferent thread here you posted that you found a date in
>> your OFXlog for your ETrade account that was one day earlier
>> than the prices you found in your Quicken price history (that
>> is: the today's prices were being entered into Quicken with
>> tomorrow's date).
>>
>> The OFXlog date you reported was identified by the tag
>> "DTASOF",
>> but that's not the correct tag/date for the prices that are
>> downloaded in the holdings from your financial institution.
>> The
>> correct tag is "DTPRICEASOF, and there should be one of those
>> tags (and one price) for each security you hold. The
>> DTPRICEASOF date should be the date that Quicken uses for any
>> price it puts in your Quicken price history. [I should have
>> noted this when you first posted it, but sometimes we just
>> overlook the obvious.]
> Well, it's good to know that; looking more closely at the
> OFXLOG I
> *do* find a DTPRICEASOF field and that looks to be the source
> of the
> problem.
>
> For example I see the following for one of the bonds:
>
> <UNITPRICE>86.694
> <MKTVAL>
> <DTPRICEASOF>20080524053800.000
> <MEMO>FORD MOTOR CREDIT CO GLOBAL NOTE 7.00% 1
>
>
> <SECNAME>FORD MOTOR CREDIT CO GLOBAL NOTE 7.00% 10/01/2013
> <TICKER>345397TZ6
> <UNITPRICE>86.694000
> <DTASOF>20080523170000.000
>
> I have no idea where the differing date/time information is
> coming
> from but it looks like Quicken is using the DTPRICEASOF to
> fill its
> Price History list.
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