[moneydance] Moneydance beta (556) - big problem with securities pricing tonight

[Gordon Alley]

Here's some additional info, if it is any help.

I just synced my security prices again (this is the next morning,
1/19/2007). Now, they APPEAR to be normal. But on closer inspection,
for Boston Properties (BXP) for example, the History window shows the
1/18/2007 price (the last price in the list) as $117.97 per share, but
the Price text box in the same window shows $118.3. The closest prices
to that in the history list are 118.72 (1/16/2007) and 118.52
(1/17/2007). So were did the $118.3 come from? I presume that the text
box price should match the last price in the history list (assuming no
more-recent transactions).

-Gordon

On 1/19/07, Gordon Alley <gordon.alley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tonight (Thursday, Jan. 18), when I used the stock synchronizer plugin
> to update my stock prices (something I do each weekday evening with no
> problems until tonight), the value of my IRA (a Scottrade investment
> account) suddenly dropped by 43%!
>
> I went online with Scottrade and verified that, though the value had
> dropped a bit because of today's market action, it was nothing like
> 43%.
>
> When I looked at the Stock Prices list on the Moneydance home page, I
> could see the problem. 25 of the 47 securities showed a share value of
> precisely $7. A coincidence? I think not!
>
> My first suspicion was that the Stock Quote Synchronizer (build 22)
> had malfunctioned. But I run it every evening, and it's been fine
> until tonight. Re-running it didn't seem to change anything.
>
> But here's the weird thing. When I check the Currency/Security History
> window for any of the securities with a bogus share value, I see the
> Price text box contains a 7, but the scrolling price history list
> below looks just fine, and has the correct share price for today's
> close (1/18/2007).
>
> So what's up with that?

-- 
Gordon B. Alley
http://galley.home.texas.net