Muni-bond price & transaction retrieval

[finmanjim]

Hi Mark,

I have some muni bonds in my account held at E*Trade. I use the FINRA site for price retrieval while transactions are retrieved from E*Trade. The problem is that the FINRA site does not use the bond's CUSIP to retrieve the price, but the bond's CUSIP is required to retrieve transactions from E*Trade.

An example: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Public Improvement bonds

For FINRA, the code M9391805125200 is used for price retrieval, while the bond's CUSIP, 74514LXG7 is required to retrieve the transactions from E*Trade.

I prefer to use the FINRA site for muni-bond price retrieval since I believe it to be more representative of the current value.

Is it possible to add a feature in FM to separately record a code for price retrieval and another code for transaction retrieval for any specific holding?

Thanks as always for your response.

Jim

[Mark]

Hi Jim,

It does already work this way. The CUSIP is for retrieving transactions, and the SYMBOL field is for retrieving prices from any quote server. For FINRA, you have to look up what they call the "ticker" in the URL of the quote. Record this "ticker" in the symbol field of your Fund Manager investment for that bond. For more detailed instructions, see:

https://www.fundmanagersoftware.com/int ... FinraBonds