[moneydance] Securities History

[A J R Bayer]

I have to do the same thing with several investments.

My methodology is slightly different. (I used to do it the way you describe but noticed the same problem you have.)

I open the history as you do and then click on the New Button for prices.

I scroll down to the bottom (how I wish there were an option for reverse ordering) and amend the date and then enter the data that I have which in most cases is the closing price quoted in the news source from the fund manager.

Then I update the price window at the top - the one that affects the price that shows in the main window and is used in calculations.

This seems to keep things accurate.

I know that when I open history again update new prices, and new price materialises from somewhere but I do not know what generates it. However, I only open the history when I update prices so it does not seem to affect things

A



 
On Monday, October 06, 2008, at 11:19PM, "Rowland Wren" <wrenjim at mac.com> wrote:
>I have an investment that is not quoted on any stock exchange (a  
>property Fund) but the company published each day the Net Asset Value  
>which I use to update my records. I get the NAV from the company's web- 
>site and insert it into current value and click on new which puts it  
>into history. However the publication runs a day or two behind so I  
>change the date in history. So far so good but if I click "done" and  
>then re-display history the value has changed in history although the  
>current price remains correct.
>
>For instance today I picked up the NAV as 0.9613 and put that value in  
>"Price" and clicked "New". The value appeared in history correctly but  
>the date was 10/7/2008 but the NAV was for 10/3/2008 so I amended it  
>in history and clicked "Done".
>
>I then re-displayed History and the value had changed to 0.99256358.  
>My question is where did that value come from and what am I doing wrong?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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