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Posted by John Pollard on April 16, 2008, 4:47 pm
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Oilcan wrote:
> John,
>
> So if I understand you correctly. If I own a bond and it is
> held in a
> brokerage account, I could possibly get a price update - at
> least on
> the days where there was activity - if Quicken asks me to
> match the
> security between the download and Quicken. Otherwise if it
> does not,
> I would have to manually input the price.
If you are already successfully downloading transactions from
your broker, you have already matched the downloaded securities
with your Quicken securities, so Quicken already knows the CUSIP
number for the securities held at your broker.
Yes, you can get prices for any of those securities, but I can
not tell you exactly what other conditions may apply. I get
bond prices for the bonds I own at Smith Barney as a result of
downloading, but I think not with every download.
> Also there is now way to
> get a price of a bond held outside of a broker. I base this
> on the
> fact that I can't enter a CUSIP number (even though I could
> find one)
> into Quicken.
I know of no way to do this.
I think the only other electronic sources of bond prices (other
than your own broker) must be paid for. And even then, there is
no guarantee that source will provide prices in a manner usable
by Quicken.
[Naturally you can manually enter bond prices: there is no need
for a ticker symbol or a CUSIP number to do that.]
[At one time, the CUSIP number field was visible and editable in
Quicken, but I think that's no longer the case. Even so, just
having the CUSIP number would only be part of the problem of
getting prices for bonds not held at an institution that
downloaded to Quicken using OFX.]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Pollard [mailto:invalid@invalid.com]
> Posted At: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:00 AM
> Posted To: alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
> Conversation: Download bond price
> Subject: Re: Download bond price
>
> YuriW wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> YuriW wrote:
>>>>> I have purchased California GObondand wondering if there
>>>>> is
>>>>> a way in
>>>>> Quickendownloadit's currentprice.
>>>
>>>> If you hold thebondat a brokerage from which you
>>>> candownload,
>>>> they may (should, I think)downloadyourbondprices ... but
>>>> possibly only when there are also actual transactions to
>>>> download.
>
>>> I gave it a try with one of my accounts (Etrade)
>>> andbondprices
>>> *were* updated even though there were no transactions.
>>>
>>> Tom Young
>
>> Thank you all.
>>
>> But *don't* have symbols defined in Quicken, so how does it
>> know the
>> prices?
>
> Downloads from financial institutions link to Quicken
> securities
> by CUSIP number; once you have told Quicken that your Quicken
> security, ABC, is the same as the downloaded security,
> American
> Broadcasting Company, Quicken knows the CUSIP number of the
> Quicken security and uses that CUSIP number to know which
> future
> downloaded transactions, and holdings, pertain to which
> Quicken
> security.
>
> Each download from your investment financial institution
> should
> include your holdings at that fi; and the holdings should
> include the price/share of each security, as of the date of
> the
> holdings.
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John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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