Price Update Problems?

Intuit needs to give us the option of simply importing the prices from an excel file or simple comma delineated file so we can bypass this broken system they have in place.

You can. At least in Quicken 2005 Deluxe.

Google has been improving their financial page which is, of course, free. While this doesn't fix the problem with Quicken, it is a place to check when Intuit has failed again to provide a reliable quote download. Perhaps in the future price downloads will be free for the taking.

Yawn, you can import in Q2007 also.

It doesn't happen every day..just keep doing daily updates and it will be correct more days than it is wrong.

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I see that you can but I haven't tried it yet.

I found no documentation of the format of the ASCII CSV file record. I'd guess that it might be as simple as date,symbol,price but could it handle open/close, volume, etc?

Documentation is sparse as far as I can see. If you have any info on this I'd like to hear it. Although most prices update most of the time without a problem, there are a few securities I have that Quicken just does not get right and I'd like to import a block of prices manually.

Thanks.

Try a a free little program called "Netstock". It will retrieve the prices and export them in Quicken format to then be imported into Quicken. I have used it for years and I get my updates daily when the Quicken servers are not working (which is very often nowadays). It can be found at

I tried it out today (July 4th): basically, I like it.

But by coincidence of the date, I think I uncovered a bug in Netstock: although it displays prices dated 7/3, it creates a Quicken comma delimited file with prices dated 7/4. A problem that has a somewhat familiar ring to it. ;)

[I left a message with the developer; it seems like a problem that could be easy to solve. And a workaround of having Wordpad replace all "7/4" with "7/3" allowed the prices to be imported into Quicken for the correct date.]

I just downloaded it and tried installing it, but the installation failed with the message

FindFirstFile() failed with error #21.

Perhaps it's a Vista issue. Do you know whether it will run under Vista?

I think it puts the current days date in the export. Did you create the export file on the 4th with the 3rd prices?

John Pollard wrote:

I agree ... for the Quicken export.

But it used the correct date (July 3 - the actual date of the prices) when it did a "Full Export".

Yes.

That's exactly what the problem was. Netstock had prices clearly displayed as dated July 3 (even though they were acquired on July 4); but when Netstock exported to a file for Quicken, it elected to use the current date instead of the date of the prices it had.

My guess is that it is a simple oversight that Netstock did not put the date of the prices in its "Quicken export" ... since it did put the date of those prices in its "Full export".

OK, thanks anyway.

I've also used this little freeware program for years with no problems. Works so well I've never bothered with the Q download

Hi, Ken.

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Thanks, RC. I'll try it again.

Ken

I redownloaded it--the zip file this time instead of the exe--and it seems fine. Thanks again.

How do you use the Quicken Export feature? What do you do with the prices.txt (or whatever name) file it creates?

In Quicken, in the Investement Center screen, pull down file/import/import prices. Point to the prices.txt that netstock created.

Great, thanks. I don't need to do that today, but I'll keep that in mind for when I need to do so.