Tracking commodities

Posted by pyotr filipivich on October 1, 2009, 7:54 pm

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Greetings and Salutations

I'm sure that this question has come up before, but does anyone have a
means to track commodities in Quicken? As in fetch the price of
copper, silver, gold, wheat, or West Texas crude?
I long ago gave up trying to track foreign exchange holdings in
Quicken, and the commodity account is just one of those "fun things".
(If I bought my weight in platinum, how much would it be worth? If I
_had_ bought my weight in platinum, and then sold the amount I lost
after the diet, who much would I have made/lost?)

Oh yeah, I'm still running Quicken 2008

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pyotr
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Posted by John Pollard on October 4, 2009, 9:20 am

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pyotr filipivich wrote:

> I'm sure that this question has come up before, but does anyone have a

> means to track commodities in Quicken? As in fetch the price of

> copper, silver, gold, wheat, or West Texas crude?

If you have a source that will provide you with a comma delimited file of
the prices, you can import that into Quicken.

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John Pollard

Posted by pyotr filipivich on October 5, 2009, 3:08 am

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about Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:20:17 -0500 did write/type or cause to appear
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>pyotr filipivich wrote:

>> I'm sure that this question has come up before, but does anyone have a

>> means to track commodities in Quicken? As in fetch the price of

>> copper, silver, gold, wheat, or West Texas crude?

>If you have a source that will provide you with a comma delimited file of

>the prices, you can import that into Quicken.

I do, but that requires me to make sure I hit the site every day
and copy the numbers. B-) "Too much like work." What I'd like is
some way to track the prices like a stock price.

Thanks for the advice, I may have to try and do something like
that ... in the future. In my copious spare time.

pyotr

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Posted by gp on October 5, 2009, 9:49 am

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On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:08:21 -0700, pyotr filipivich

>about Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:20:17 -0500 did write/type or cause to appear

>in alt.comp.software.financial.quicken the following:

>>pyotr filipivich wrote:

>>> I'm sure that this question has come up before, but does anyone have a

>>> means to track commodities in Quicken? As in fetch the price of

>>> copper, silver, gold, wheat, or West Texas crude?

>>If you have a source that will provide you with a comma delimited file of

>>the prices, you can import that into Quicken.

> I do, but that requires me to make sure I hit the site every day

>and copy the numbers. B-) "Too much like work." What I'd like is

>some way to track the prices like a stock price.

> Thanks for the advice, I may have to try and do something like

>that ... in the future. In my copious spare time.

>pyotr

Since futures contract symbols are every changing, trying to follow
them in Quicken would be a vary time consuming project. There are
special programs just for trying to track futures. It gets very
complex merging the expiring contracts with the new contracts.

Why not just use site that will chart the price for you. Just one
example below.

http://www2.barchart.com/mktcom.asp?code=BSTK&section=energies

http://charts3.barchart.com/chart.asp?sym=CLG0&data=A&jav=adv&vol=Y&divd=Y&evnt=adv&grid=Y&code=BSTK&org=stk&fix=

Posted by pyotr filipivich on October 8, 2009, 6:27 pm

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Let the Record show that gp@rr.com on or about Mon, 05 Oct 2009
08:49:54 -0500 did write/type or cause to appear in
alt.comp.software.financial.quicken the following:

>On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:08:21 -0700, pyotr filipivich

>>about Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:20:17 -0500 did write/type or cause to appear

>>in alt.comp.software.financial.quicken the following:

>>>pyotr filipivich wrote:

>>>> I'm sure that this question has come up before, but does anyone have a

>>>> means to track commodities in Quicken? As in fetch the price of

>>>> copper, silver, gold, wheat, or West Texas crude?

>>>

>>>If you have a source that will provide you with a comma delimited file of

>>>the prices, you can import that into Quicken.

>> I do, but that requires me to make sure I hit the site every day

>>and copy the numbers. B-) "Too much like work." What I'd like is

>>some way to track the prices like a stock price.

>> Thanks for the advice, I may have to try and do something like

>>that ... in the future. In my copious spare time.

>>pyotr

>Since futures contract symbols are every changing, trying to follow

>them in Quicken would be a vary time consuming project. There are

>special programs just for trying to track futures. It gets very

>complex merging the expiring contracts with the new contracts.

I'll take your word for it. What I want to do is just enter a
purchase of 100 "units" of CommodityA, and watch the spot price rise
or fall.

>Why not just use site that will chart the price for you. Just one

>example below.

>http://www2.barchart.com/mktcom.asp?code=BSTK&section=energies

>http://charts3.barchart.com/chart.asp?sym=CLG0&data=A&jav=adv&vol=Y&divd=Y&evnt=adv&grid=Y&code=BSTK&org=stk&fix=

Oooh, cool.

pyotr

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