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

[Gordon Alley]

When would the Current Price be different from the last Closing Price?
If they SHOULD always be the same, I'd just make the last closing
price the current price in MD, and ignore the separate Current Price
provided by Yahoo.

That reminds me of a minor gripe with MD (I THINK it still applies to
2007 build 560). When I enter a new security, MD always sets the
current price to $100. In order to set it to the correct  value, I
have to bring up the History dialog. Why not allow entering the
current value in the New Security dialog. As an alternative, when a
Buy transaction is entered, and its date is more recent than any other
transaction or quote for that security, make its buy price the current
price.

-Gordon

On 1/21/07, Sean Reilly <sreilly at seanreilly.com> wrote:
> I think the 118.3 comes from the "current price" as provided by the
> stock quote source (Yahoo!) and the history refers to closing prices,
> so they last history entry is not always the same as the current
> price.
>
> Yahoo! Finance was just updated yesterday, so perhaps the erroneous
> prices had something to do with their new site being rolled out.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> On 1/19/07, Gordon Alley <gordon.alley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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

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