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Inuit Response re Quotes oakparker 03-21-2008
Posted by bjn on March 30, 2008, 8:29 am
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>4ax.com:
>
>>
>>>There are many
>>>entities involved in getting the prices and distributing them in a
>>>correct format.
>>
>>
>> Two entities: Comstock and Intuit.
>>
>I'd put the onus on Intuit. [snip]


I absolutely agree.



Posted by bjn on March 30, 2008, 8:32 am
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>4ax.com:
>
>>
>>>There are many
>>>entities involved in getting the prices and distributing them in a
>>>correct format.
>>
>>
>> Two entities: Comstock and Intuit.
>>
>I'd put the onus on Intuit. When we complained loudly here about the quote
>and newsservers a few months ago and many of us switched to netstock.exe,
>which works very nicely for quote downloads once you set it up, [snip]


Can you explain the netstock.exe set-up?

Posted by Han on March 30, 2008, 9:41 am
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>
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>There are many
>>>>entities involved in getting the prices and distributing them in a
>>>>correct format.
>>>
>>>
>>> Two entities: Comstock and Intuit.
>>>
>>I'd put the onus on Intuit. When we complained loudly here about the
>>quote and newsservers a few months ago and many of us switched to
>>netstock.exe, which works very nicely for quote downloads once you set
>>it up, [snip]
>
>
> Can you explain the netstock.exe set-up?
>
I just found the most recent version (3/25/2008) here:
http://www.splitcycle.com/Products/Netstock/tabid/29/Default.aspx

You have to input the stock symbols. It is easiest (for me) to copy the
list from a yahoo finance portfolio, but any way is fine. Once the
quotes are retrieved they are exported to a format compatible with
Quicken, default is prices.csv. Then from within Quicken you import the
prices. There used to be a hitch that the dates were assigned to today,
which on a Sunday would be incorrect, as the latest prices were Friday 4
PM.


--
Best regards
Han
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Posted by John Pollard on March 30, 2008, 10:03 am
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Han wrote:
>There used to be a hitch that the dates were assigned to
> today, which on a Sunday would be incorrect, as the latest
> prices
> were Friday 4 PM.

That "hitch" is still present in the latest version. It
basically means that you must get your Quicken prices after the
last price is available for the day but before the date changes
at midnight; or at least some of your prices will be incorrectly
dated. [If you remember before you import to Quicken, you can
modify the incorrect dates in the comma delimited file.]

I suggested to the developer that he allow an option to output
the dates of the prices (which are available and appear in the
display), but he thought that was asking too much and seemed
much more worried about outputting invalid dates. The
non-Quicken export uses the correct dates, so I never understood
why the Quicken export couldn't do that as well.

--

John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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Posted by sharx35 on March 31, 2008, 4:55 pm
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> Han wrote:
>>There used to be a hitch that the dates were assigned to
>> today, which on a Sunday would be incorrect, as the latest prices
>> were Friday 4 PM.
>
> That "hitch" is still present in the latest version. It basically means
> that you must get your Quicken prices after the last price is available
> for the day but before the date changes at midnight; or at least some of
> your prices will be incorrectly dated. [If you remember before you import
> to Quicken, you can modify the incorrect dates in the comma delimited
> file.]
>
> I suggested to the developer that he allow an option to output the dates
> of the prices (which are available and appear in the display), but he
> thought that was asking too much and seemed much more worried about
> outputting invalid dates. The non-Quicken export uses the correct dates,
> so I never understood why the Quicken export couldn't do that as well.
>
> --
>
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
>

What kind of obsessive inDUHvidual NEEDS to update their prices EVERY effing
day?




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