[moneydance] Foreign Currency Investment Prices Change

[Sean Reilly]

Yes, this is because all exchange rates and prices in Moneydance are
stored, behind the scenes, in terms of the base currency.  For this
reason it is best to update your exchange rates before your stock
prices.

A future version of either Moneydance itself or the stock quotes
extension should take care of this for you, but in the meantime if you
have securities based on something other than the base currency you
should always update your exchange rates before updating your stock
prices.  Unfortunately this feature won't make it into the upcoming MD
2007 release.

Thanks,
Sean

On 11/19/06, Adrian Apthorp <aapthorp at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Moneydance for a while and have one problem with
> tracking foreign currency (i.e. non-base currency) investments. Quite
> often when I come back and view a price I've entered in the security
> history for a foreign currency investment the price has changed. I know
> it's changed because the precision of the price is normally much greater
> (e.g. 8 d.p) than the price I entered (e.g. 4 d.p.).
>
> I'm assuming that this is something to do with exchange rate updates.
>
> Any ideas?