Retrieving Prices

[Ivan]

Two questions on retrieving prices...

1. When I select Edit/Internet Retrieve/Prices or Historical Prices I get the same dialog box labeled 'Historical Price Retrieve Dates,' requesting a date range. What is the difference, if any, between these functions?

2. I sometimes am a little early in the day in requesting a retrieve of today's prices. Is there any way to know whether all of today's prices have been successfully retrieved without looking through every investment?

Thanks,
Ivan

[Mark]

Hi Ivan,

1) The only difference between these 2 commands is which server you are retrieving from. You can set each one of them. You do this under "Options / Internet Settings...". Usually you leave one of the current quote servers set for the first one (PRC) and a historical server set for the second one (HST). It sounds like you have the historical server set for both of yours.

2) Not a real easy way... You could create a Custom report with the "Latest Price Date" field, and sort the report by that field.