Dang. I thought I was rich ...

Dec 16, 2009 7 Replies

Just downloaded today's closing stock prices and Target (TGT) showed up at over $200.



Checked elsewhere and found the real close at $47.66.



Fooey.


From: "Bert Hyman"

| Just downloaded today's closing stock prices and Target (TGT) showed up | at over $200.

| Checked elsewhere and found the real close at $47.66.

| Fooey.

| -- | Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN snipped-for-privacy@iphouse.com

I have seen that happen before. The I compared with Yahoo Finance to find the folly in Quicke's downloaded price. F'n PITA !

I thought it was just yesterday but it happened again this morning for my Pimco fund (RCS). Should have been 10.80 but Quicken (Deluxe 2010) has it as $656.60. I wish :-D

FWIW: Q2010 is unable to find a security with the ticker RCS this morning (9:15 am CST). But Quicken thinks the ticker TGT is for something called "DJ Target Today" (a "Market Index"); which has, not coincidentally I suspect ("TGT showed up at over $200"), a price of $208.52 as of

12/15/2009.

They're apparently "investigating" the problem. You can sign up to be notified when it's fixed.

"Incorrect quotes downloading for random securities in Quicken Updated: 12/16/2009 | Article ID: 7594"

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I've never signed up for a notification like this; does it actually work?

My understanding is, it does.

The quotes I just downloaded appeared to be correct, or at least were within a range where they didn't jump out at me as being absurdly wrong.

No notification, but I really don't care, so long as it's fixed.

I was less than pleased to see that Quicken had entered the stocks in the 401(k) according to some scheme of their own. I have enough trouble tracking the mutual funds, but creating their own stocks? (IIRC, one was

- pyotr filipivich. Just about the time you finally see light at the end of the tunnel, you find out it's a Government Project to build more tunnel.

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