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

[Gordon Alley]

The Stock Quote Synchronizer downloaded $7 for the "current price"
again tonight for a security where the actual closing price was about
$585 (CME). I thought there had been a split somewhere. Again, the
closing price was downloaded correctly.

-Gordon

On 1/23/07, Sean Reilly <sreilly at seanreilly.com> wrote:
> On 1/21/07, Gordon Alley <gordon.alley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> They are often different.  The current price can be updated
> continuously throughout the day.  Yahoo also doesn't provide
> historical prices for some securities, depending upon the exchange I
> think.
>
> > 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.
>
> I agree that there should be a price field on the new-security dialog.
>
> As for auto-setting the price, I thought MD used to do this but will
> check into it.  A formal request for this in trac would help (if there
> isn't one already).
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
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Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com