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Price Update Problems? Don in San Antonio 06-29-2007
Posted by Charlie K on July 3, 2007, 7:05 pm
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> Intuit needs to give us the option of simply importing the prices from an
> excel file or simple comma delineated file so we can bypass this broken
> system they have in place.
>
>
>

You can. At least in Quicken 2005 Deluxe.


Posted by Don in San Antonio on July 3, 2007, 7:29 pm
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 Charlie K said the following on 7/3/2007 6:05 PM:
>> Intuit needs to give us the option of simply importing the prices from an
>> excel file or simple comma delineated file so we can bypass this broken
>> system they have in place.
>>
>>
>>
>
> You can. At least in Quicken 2005 Deluxe.
>

Google has been improving their financial page which is, of course,
free. While this doesn't fix the problem with Quicken, it is a place to
check when Intuit has failed again to provide a reliable quote download.
Perhaps in the future price downloads will be free for the taking.

Posted by charles on July 4, 2007, 7:53 am
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wrote:

>> Intuit needs to give us the option of simply importing the prices from an
>> excel file or simple comma delineated file so we can bypass this broken
>> system they have in place.
>>
>>
>>
>
>You can. At least in Quicken 2005 Deluxe.

I see that you can but I haven't tried it yet.

I found no documentation of the format of the ASCII CSV file record.
I'd guess that it might be as simple as date,symbol,price but could it
handle open/close, volume, etc?

Documentation is sparse as far as I can see. If you have any info on
this I'd like to hear it. Although most prices update most of the time
without a problem, there are a few securities I have that Quicken just
does not get right and I'd like to import a block of prices manually.

Thanks.



Posted by Oilcan on July 3, 2007, 9:28 pm
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Yawn, you can import in Q2007 also.

> Intuit needs to give us the option of simply importing the prices from an
> excel file or simple comma delineated file so we can bypass this broken
> system they have in place.
>
>
>>
>>> bjn wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:00:28 -0400, Bruce bowman
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Don in San Antonio wrote:
>>>>>> I just downloaded mutual fund prices and got zero change. Further
>>>>>> investigation shows prices for tomorrow June 30 in price history.
>>>>>> Anyone else having this problem?
>>>>> I just updated month-end for my Canadian version of Quicken, and it
>>>>> has turned into a disaster.
>>>>> One of the stock quotes for today, Sat., June 30 (actually should be
>>>>> the same as for yesterday, Fri., June 29) was 10x actual value of
>>>>> $56.62 - showed as $566.20. Price quotes for previous 4 days were
>>>>> correct ($56.62).
>>>>> Even though I deleted the incorrect quote and replaced it, the Net
>>>>> Worth values continue to include the consequences of that incorrect
>>>>> quote, and validating or super-validating the file do not show any
>>>>> errors. Doing a FILE COPY does not correct the problem either.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have had more problems with this version of Quicken since I bought
>>>>> it earlier this year, than with any previous version over the past 15
>>>>> yr.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions on what to try next.. other than getting rid of
>>>>> Quicken?
>>>>
>>>> I got back a note from Quicken customer disservice saying that the
>>>> quote
>>>> problem will be fixed on Monday. I'm not saying I believe them, just
>>>> that I got a note from them.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info
>>>
>>> After posting the previous message, I discovered that ALL Toronto TSX
>>> stock quotes for June 30 were 10x the Friday quotes - took a while to go
>>> through and manually delete and re-enter - Quotes for mutual funds
>>> appeared to be OK.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>
>>
>> Why did you waste the time manually correcting them? By just waiting a
>> day or two or until the problem was resolved and THEN re-downloading
>> them, the problem would be solved without wasting your time with the
>> manual tweaking. WHY doesn't anyone HAVE to have new prices EVERY FUCKING
>> DAY??
>>
>>
>>
>
>


Posted by Steve Blake on July 4, 2007, 8:30 am
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Try a a free little program called "Netstock". It will retrieve the
prices and export them in Quicken format to then be imported into
Quicken. I have used it for years and I get my updates daily when the
Quicken servers are not working (which is very often nowadays). It can
be found at http://www.splitcycle.com



> Intuit needs to give us the option of simply importing the prices from an
> excel file or simple comma delineated file so we can bypass this broken
> system they have in place.
>
>
>>> bjn wrote:
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Don in San Antonio wrote:
>>>>>> I just downloaded mutual fund prices and got zero change. Further
>>>>>> investigation shows prices for tomorrow June 30 in price history.
>>>>>> Anyone else having this problem?
>>>>> I just updated month-end for my Canadian version of Quicken, and it has
>>>>> turned into a disaster.
>>>>> One of the stock quotes for today, Sat., June 30 (actually should be
>>>>> the same as for yesterday, Fri., June 29) was 10x actual value of
>>>>> $56.62 - showed as $566.20. Price quotes for previous 4 days were
>>>>> correct ($56.62).
>>>>> Even though I deleted the incorrect quote and replaced it, the Net
>>>>> Worth values continue to include the consequences of that incorrect
>>>>> quote, and validating or super-validating the file do not show any
>>>>> errors. Doing a FILE COPY does not correct the problem either.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have had more problems with this version of Quicken since I bought it
>>>>> earlier this year, than with any previous version over the past 15 yr.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions on what to try next.. other than getting rid of
>>>>> Quicken?
>>>> I got back a note from Quicken customer disservice saying that the quote
>>>> problem will be fixed on Monday. I'm not saying I believe them, just
>>>> that I got a note from them.
>>> Thanks for the info
>>>
>>> After posting the previous message, I discovered that ALL Toronto TSX
>>> stock quotes for June 30 were 10x the Friday quotes - took a while to go
>>> through and manually delete and re-enter - Quotes for mutual funds
>>> appeared to be OK.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>
>> Why did you waste the time manually correcting them? By just waiting a day
>> or two or until the problem was resolved and THEN re-downloading them, the
>> problem would be solved without wasting your time with the manual
>> tweaking. WHY doesn't anyone HAVE to have new prices EVERY FUCKING DAY??
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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