Quicken 2012 Portfolio Quotes

One Step Update has capability to download quotes. If that's turned on, and you're executing O-S-U (manually or scheduled), you'll get NAV updates for yesterday & daily NAVs for some period of time in the past.

Are you certain you're seeing today's date w/ yesterday's prices?

I've seen price "glitches" in the past, but those generally true up w/ in a day or two. Do the prices true up (other than maybe today's price), if you re-download quotes?

Yes.

Yes, I think that's what's happening. I'll check to make sure tomorrow morning.

But assuming that it does happen, how can I stop it from being wrong in the first place?

Ken Blake wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

My Q is and always was set up to NOT automatically download prices. I don't know where that setting would be, sorry. I know that Quicken's downloads of prices is a bit flaky. Generally stocks only get priced right after ~5PM Eastern time, and mut fud's prices after 6-8 PM.

Well, it didn't happen this morning, but we had a power outage last night, and the computer was off for about ten hours. I'll check again tomorrow morning.

To toggle the download option, start a manual O-S-U. If you use a password for the PIN Vault, enter it. Once the O-S-U screen opens, the very top row should be: "Get quotes and investment information" To the right side of that same line is a hyperlink where you can pick specific securities that you want (or don't want) Q to download.

Fundamentally, Q isn't a trading platform. I've never changed the O-S- U default that downloads quotes daily, but I don't take a daily view of my finances. I view Q as a tool to help me with a long-term financial plan. I capture daily quotes but normally only use them for comparing current with last year or 5 years ago. If I see a graph that shows an obvious error, I might delete (or manually correct) that daily quote.

I'm not a Q tech expert, but my instincts tell me that when it comes to quotes, there is a LOT of info to sort thru, analyze, and format. Consider that of all the quotes available in Q (NYSE, NASDAQ, mutual funds, whatever), you can capture only the quotes you want and I can capture only the quotes that I want. Furthermore, I've got some bonds that aren't even exchange traded, yet I get automated price updates. My broker tells me that since they aren't publicly traded, they're most likely estimates that the brokerage house assigns, based on trades of other bonds that have similar type & rating. That tells me that the Quicken servers need also talk to individual brokerage houses, in addition to the stock exchanges. i.e. lots of data, lots of handoffs, & therefore lots of places where errors can happen.

Unfortuantely, to the best of my knowledge, there are no alternatives to automated download. You're at the mercy of whatever takes place upstream of your download. There will be errors. I believe the errors normally get corrected, but my experience is that sometimes it takes a day or two.

I'm OK w/ the way it works, but I can certainly understand how it could drive someone else nuts if they were comparing to what they see in the newspaper.

Q does at least give you the ability to turn it off.

HTH

"Bartt" wrote

Furthermore, I've got some bonds that aren't even exchange traded, yet I get automated price updates. My broker tells me that since they aren't publicly traded, they're most likely estimates that the brokerage house assigns, based on trades of other bonds that have similar type & rating. That tells me that the Quicken servers need also talk to individual brokerage houses, in addition to the stock exchanges.

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Intuit's quote servers can't get bond prices; those prices come from your financial institution when you download from them.

When you download to an investment account, you get transactions and holdings from the financial institution. The downloaded holdings normally contain security prices, and Quicken uses those prices to update your Quicken price history.

Unlike the prices from the quote servers, there is no way to tell Quicken not to use downloaded prices from financial institutions.

I've noticed problems with stock prices in the watch list, if I didn't shutdown Quicken overnight.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:j7saa8$20m$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

I don't usually download quotes as part of OSU. I found it too slow in the past (but now Tx downloads from Chase & ING are really, really slow). There is a shortcut to download quotes that I find very fast and helpful: Alt-Shift-Q. Of course if you're too early in the day, and Quicken hasn't yet updated the prices to the day's finals, you get sort of garbage. Better to do it later, like after 7 or 8 PM Eastern time.

Thanks. I normally keep it running overnight, but I may try doing what you do.