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Posted by Jack Mangrove on June 27, 2007, 12:52 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Jack Mangrove wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, the price history lists in Quicken are
> > for
> > visual reference only, and the values do not automatically
> > popluate
> > any forms or functions, even where it would be very useful as
> > in
> > entering a buy transaction. So, if I gethistoricalprices
> > from other
> > sources, is there any reason for me to enter them in the price
> > history
> > lists in Quicken.
>
> Thepricesin your Quicken price history are used to value your
> securities: automatically.
>
> If you want to know what your IBM stock was worth a year ago,
> you need a price/share in Quicken dated a year ago. If you want
> to see if the value of your Quicken holdings match the value of
> your holdings on your last brokerage statement, you need a
> price/share for each security held at the brokerage as of the
> date of that statement. If you want to see a graph of the
> change in the value of your holdings over time, you need
> price/share for the end of each period shown in the graph.
>
> So I think the Quickenhistoricalpricesare fairly useful.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
More about historical prices.
I found a source of historical prices on Yahoo! Finance that is
complete and can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. Is there any
way of getting that data into Quicken en masse instead of editing the
Price History lists and entering individually? This would be for
periods in the past for which data is not available thru Quicken
because it will only get one value per week.
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