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

[Martin & Carol]

In the last two days I reported what I believed to be a bug because it
happened right after I updated to 592(?). After downloading my transaction
from Fidelity I became worth close to 300 million. That is because I had
several securities valued at exactly $10,000. I tried to correct this under
history but it would not change. I tried the whole thing on back up copies
but NG. After I had dinner I went back and tried the whole thing over and
everything worked fine. I was confused then but now I am more confused
because at that time I thought I had a bad connection to Fidelity. They are
not Schwab.

I repeat for Sean¹s benefit, I tried to correct the history but it didn¹t
change things.

Martin Alper



From: Sean Reilly <sreilly at seanreilly.com>
Reply-To: General discussion related to Moneydance
<moneydance-info at moneydance.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:08:36 +0100
To: General discussion related to Moneydance
<moneydance-info at moneydance.com>
Subject: Re: [moneydance] I'm Rich! O, no, Moneydance is Being Obnoxious

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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