[moneydance] Those $10,000 prices getting set on dividends

[Martin & Carol]

I guess I don¹t know how to get a response added on to a thread. However see
my mail of Sept 7, 2007 where I continue my tirade.

I think Sean has it wrong, as you indicate it¹s not sales volume but
something else. I think it is any easy fix.

I am beginning to believe that Mike and I are the only users of MD that down
load investment transactions.

Mike, what I have done is first get rid of all the $10,000¹s and then do a
stock price update. Your angry that you had to do that but everything will
look right.

Martin Alper



From: Michael Casteel <mac at casteel.org>
Reply-To: General discussion related to Moneydance
<moneydance-info at moneydance.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:42:49 -0700
To: <moneydance-info at moneydance.com>
Subject: [moneydance] Those $10,000 prices getting set on dividends

I have held off downloading from Schwab for a while, awaiting a fix
for MD 579's habit of making a price entry for $10,000 on the security
with each dividend. I just finished deleting those $10,000 price
entries from 16 securities, as I wanted to catch up that account.

Watching the handling of the downloaded transactions, I noticed that
MD proposed a DIV transaction, as was appropriate, for each dividend,
but the 'Price' field in that transaction was indeed '10000', although
that field was NOT editable. So, MD not only sets this bogus price in
the dividend transaction, there is no way to edit it out of there. The
only appropriate entry would be 'empty', since I have no idea what the
price actually was that day. So, even if I could have edited it, I
don't know if MD would have allowed 'empty' or decided that meant
$0.00!
-- 
Mike Casteel                                        Seattle, WA