Q2009 Deluxe, but true for earlier versions also. I download prices at the end of the day, or even the next day, using the "One Step Update" command. More often than not, there's only a partial download. If partial, then I use the "Download Historical Prices" command, and, generally, a complete download of the day's prices take place. Any suggestions for "fixing" the two-step procedure?
Hi, Dan.
Where (in the world) are you? Like you, I download prices "at the end of the day"; for me, that's 4 pm here in Texas, an hour or more after the NYSE closes in New York. With rare exceptions, I get the full update for the day. When I run the update during the day for any reason, I also update again after 4 pm to be sure that I have the day's closing quotes.
At what time of day do you typically run the OSU? Are any of your securities on other exchanges (Toronto? Tokyo?), which might have a closing time different from New York?
I'm currently running Q2011 Deluxe, as it says in my Sig, but this has been working for several years with little noticeable change.
RC
I'm in Maryland, on EDT, and generally download around 6PM or so. Today, I just downloaded via "Update", and two funds had not updated. A minute later, via Historical prices download (One month's worth), the two remaining prices downloaded. This at 8:42 P.M. EDT.
Hi, Dan.
A clue:
I don't have any "funds". I haven't owned any mutual funds for a decade or more. But most (I think) mutual funds don't simply report the price of the last trade of the day, as with stocks. Instead, each fund must go through a series of calculations of transactions and quotes for all the thousands(?) of issues that it holds. Even with computers, this can take a while, perhaps a few hours. So the fund may not be able to calculate and publish its own Net Asset Value until long after the stock exchange closes.
Several others here are active holders of mutual funds and can probably provide more insight into this situation.
RC
"R. C. White" wrote in news:R8idnRCCWK17mTjQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@posted.grandecom:
I'm on EDT and indeed stock prices are available earlier than mutual fund prices. I find that the price of the only TIAA-CREF fund I own takes the longest, sometimes until 9 PM EDT. That is on the TIAA-CREF website, since I've given up matching the Quicken download for them.
Thanks all - my point was that, whatever the time I downloaded, the historical download was a complete download, the update download was only one minute earlier and failed to update two prices, so the prices were (I assume) available, but update failed to pick them up! This seems to happen more time than not, and over several versions of Q.
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