Re: Yahoo (Adjusted Historical):

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In Reply to: Yahoo (Adjusted Historical): posted by Paul King on December 06, 2004 at 23:29:40:

: Hi - I accidentally used Yahoo (Adjusted Historical)quote server to update my entire portfolio, instead of the standard historical server. Unfortnately, it has added some but not all distributions, and none more recent than a year ago. It has also added gross rather than net distributions - which therfore will not reconcile with the portfolio cash account balance, which is obviously only in reciept of actual net (withholding tax deducted) amounts recieved from each company

: Is there any clever way to obtain accurate (i.e net)distributions from a quote server that will reconcile with actual corresponding cash account transactions? And is there a way to update/add all missing distribution records on my hard drive, as well as automatically correct the nets gross discrepency with cash acount? Would be nice not to manually have to enter each one!

: Cheers

: Paul King

Hi Paul,

The "Yahoo (Adjusted Historical)" server does not retrieve any distribution
transactions. Only the "Yahoo (Historical)" does this. The adjusted server
will update your closing prices to account for distributions/splits, but
won't actually record/modify any transactions.

The simplest way to undo that is to exit Fund Manager without saving your
investment files. I suspect it may be too late for that, so the next
simplest fix is to re-retrieve historical prices, but use the Yahoo
(Historical) server instead this time.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003

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