I have many issues of stock options. They are entered into Quicken with the correct ticker symbol. But the price never updates and that price is never correct. There is some number there with a little "est" next to it. I guess this means "estimate." All my other stocks update properly. Why not my options? How do I make these options show the correct price? Thanks.
Look in your one-step update pane. Near the top is a link "Select quotes to download". Click on that and make sure you have your stock options selected for download.
Quicken does not provide quote updates for bonds or options.
Guess I'll answer my own post. I found a way to hack Quicken and get it to update the option market price. I simply added the same ticker symbol to my watch list. Interestingly, when I did that, the description that quicken displays for the watch-item is *one* of the names in my list of options. Weird, but the price of the watch item is correct and that price is then automatically plugged into the stock option list.
Thanks, Mike. My stock options do not appear on the list "Select quotes to download". However, as I explained in another post, I added the same ticker symbol to my watch list. Now, that ticker does appear on the Select list. It has the description taken from one of my options. And all my option prices update.
Running Quicken Premier 2004. When I add the options, both puts and calls, to my Watch list, all I get is "est" and no prices or the price it was when I initiated the position. I am using the correct symbol so I'm confused.
If I have the options listed in stocks to check section for downloading, I get a message saying that it can't find the price for the option.
Any other suggestions or will we be left without option pricing as in the past?
TIA
Joe,
Options are a reason why I ended up writing my own, free application for charting the performance of my accounts/portfolios. I do a lot of trading with options:
I understand the problem supporting historical prices of options. In summary, it's a lot of data that you have to keep around, just for the few quotes your users will actually use. I looked into the feasibility of providing a comprehensive options history for me free website. I figured it'd cost me a few hundred dollars a year, and I'd have to write a seperate db application on my Mac Mini that my main server would access. I concluded I'd worry about it later.
At any rate, I now provide intraday and end-of-day options quotes. So going forward, I store all the end-of-day option quotes. But, you can't get historical data not already in my database. So, everything is fine moving forward, and approximate going backward. If options are a relatively small part of your portfolio, an old quote is not a big deal in the scheme of things.
Steve
Sorry. Since I'm no Quicken expert, I can only tell you what worked for me. Have you tried spacing out the "est" price? Then doing an update? Hope you find a fix.
Hi Stephen. That's a very nice web site, but I'm not sure why I would need it. I'm not trying to buy or sell my Employee options. I have no need to see a history. The options are either worthless (when the market value is below the issue price) or they have a positive value. All of mine are worthless, but you wouldn't know from looking at Quicken. Thanks, though I solved my problem by using the watch list.
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