[moneydance] I'm Rich! O, no, Moneydance is Being Obnoxious

[Sean Reilly]

I think the problem is probably the price or price history rather than
the dividend transaction itself.  Can you check the security's current
price as well as the price history?  I think you'll find an entry that
is way out of line.  Fixing that should fix the net worth graph.  The
price that is associated with dividend transactions is ignored, but I
agree that it would be better if it wasn't displayed at all.

Thanks,
Sean

On 8/9/07, Hans Derycke <hans at derycke.com> wrote:
> I look at my net worth, and instead of the usual slow but
> unfortunately exorably rising line at the top of the window, I'm flat-
> lining, with a spike to $29 million -- something's wrong, and I need
> to know what it is.
>
> Soon I discover that a dividend transaction came in from Schwab with
> a share price of $10,000 instead of $1. I correct the price in the
> security history window, but the problem remains. The price on the
> dividend transaction is still $10,000 and not editable. I delete the
> offending transaction and try to create a new one, but the price
> comes in as $10,000. I switch to entering a DivReinvest transaction,
> and the price is now $1.
>
> But my net worth graph is still stupid. Somewhere, somehow,
> Moneydance is convinced that in July 2007, I was worth $28,000,000
> (yeah, I just "lost" a million).
>
> Further investigation reveals another account (with Schwab) where
> there are *two* funds with dividend transactions with a price set to
> $10,000. I fix the transactions, and remove the offending lines of
> both funds' history. Problem solved: I'm not rich anymore, but the
> numbers are much more reliable.
>
> Conclusion: dividend transactions should not have a price.