I'm running Quicken 2012 Premier (under 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate, if it matters). On the Portfolio screen (all mutual funds), even if I don't choose Update | Quotes, each afternoon it updates by itself. When it does that, for each security it creates an entry with today's date, but with yesterdays prices.
Anyone know what might be wrong, and what I should do to fix it?
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.
"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.
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