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Posted by D.Duck on January 19, 2008, 9:30 am
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> docdec1@juno.com wrote:
>> This is a band aide for a major Intuit disconnect for Quicken
>> customers who use the download quotes services. I do not feel the
>> workaround below should be necessary, rather Intuit should fix the
>> issue.
>
> This is a "band aide" [sic]? you don't need. It's much more work than you
> need to put yourself through ... assuming you don't think you can use
> Quicken for "day trading" (in which case, you are using the wrong
> product).
>
> Look for a free product called "NetStock" (Google is your friend).
> Install Netstock and - when you are ready to import prices to Quicken -
> tell it to create the ".csv" file you need to import prices into Quicken.
>
> [NetStock has a small problem: it creates files to import into Quicken
> that always have "today's" date: just make sure that all of "today's
> prices are final (including mutual fund prices) ... not a problem if you
> just want "today's" prices.]
>
> [If you like the basic concept; you can, and should, tell the developer of
> NetStock to offer the option to use the date of the prices that Netstock
> gets from its price source ... which is "correct" about 99.99% percent of
> the time.]
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
Thanks for the tip. It's a relatively painless work around for Intuit's
gross incompetence.
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