Re: Showing Canadian Investments in US$

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In Reply to: Showing Canadian Investments in US$ posted by Jack on May 04, 2003 at 05:06:51:

: I have a few Canadian stocks mixed in with my US stocks. I've set up a dummy investment that lists the Canadian$:US$ exchange rate, as suggested in the Help section. Both ^CCD and ^XCD seem to work with Yahoo. I'm using US$ as my default currency, so wish to express my valuations in that currency.

: However, I find that the when I select the "Exhange Rate Adjusted" view, Fund Manager divides by the exchange rate instead of multiplying, so I get more rather than fewer US dollars for my Canadian dollars (dinosaurs ruled the earth when that last happened!)

: I've tried switching between the currency selected for my dummy investment (i.e. US$ and C$), but this seems to make no difference.

: Is there any way of using the reciprocal of the exchange rate, or is there a ^??? symbol in Yahoo that will give me the C$:US$ rather than vice versa? (I've searched Yahoo for 30 minutes, but to no avail.)

Hi Jack,

I don't know the symbol for the reciprocal of the exchange rate either, but
you can assign a property to your ^CCD investment, so it will have its price
inverted when importing. See "Investment Properties.../Other/Invert Price
When Updating".

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley

Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP

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• Re: Showing Canadian Investments in US$ Jack 18:11:38 05/04/03 (0)