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

[Hans Derycke]

Well, that's what I did: I deleted the offending transactions and  
fixed the history, which resolved the immediate problem.

The larger issue, however, is that this bogus price came in with the  
dividend transaction. I don't agree when you say the the price that  
is associated with dividend transactions is ignored, because that's  
where the price came from. It *should* be ignored, but it isn't.

Hans.
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Sean Reilly wrote:

> 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.
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