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Posted by traderdad on December 6, 2006, 2:44 pm
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If I read you correctly, I can rename my QDATA.QPH file, which I assume is
just the price history? Say I call it QDADAOLD.QPH. No transaction data,
right? Then when I start Quicken nect time, it will not have any prices. I
could then select Update Historical Prices for the stocks in my portfolio
today, which would be way easier than deleting the unwanted prices from the
individual securities. I've tried it that way, and its very time intensice
:-(
John
>
>>I have many securities that I no longer own, and haven't for a long time.
>>Is there an easy way to eliminate the price histories for these stocks?
>>There used to be a way to thin out the price history by replacing the
>>daily quotes with weekly; anything like this still exist in Q2007?
>
> I don't have Q2007, so I can't tell you if it has some way to clean your
> price history that's not available in the versions I do have (Q2002,
> Q2004, Q2005, Q2006).
>
> There are at least two different approaches I know of that you could take
> to reducing the number of prices in your history: start with an empty
> price history and rebuild; or remove selected prices from your current
> price history. I think it would be your call as to which way created less
> work for you.
>
> You can create a new empty price history file by just renaming QDATA.QPH
> (where QDATA is the name of your Quicken data). Next time you start
> Quicken and open QDATA, Quicken will recreate the QPH file with no prices.
>
> From there you can use Quicken's price history download to replace many
> prices (see Quicken Help for the rules for what prices will be
> downloaded). You can also use sources like Yahoo to download prices in
> .csv format and "import" them into Quicken (most useful for history more
> than five years old).
>
> I do not know of any method to get electronic historical prices for
> non-publicly traded securities. You would either have to manually
> re-enter those prices; or export prices from your current file, then
> massage the resulting QIF file to contain only prices that could not be
> recovered any other way ... later "importing" that QIF file.
>
> Alternatively, you can delete prices from within Quicken. When you "Edit
> Price History" for a given security, you can select groups of prices (as
> you would select files in Windows Explorer) and delete them. If you sold
> a security two years ago and did not want any prices in Quicken after the
> sale date, you could easily delete all those prices with one select, one
> delete.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
>
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