Re: reorganize portfolios

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In Reply to: Re: reorganize portfolios posted by Mark on August 26, 2005 at 17:57:47:

: A price retrieve by default will retrieve prices for all open investments in all sub-portfolios. If you want to only do certain ones, hilight them in the Portfolio Editor, right mouse click, and choose "Retrieve Selected Prices".

i can see where some confusion can occur. if i highlight a subport it appears on the right, implying that these are the 'open investments'. since a price retrieval icon is on the toolbar, it is normal to use it to retrieve prices, presuming that it will only affect the selected (highlighted) port. there is no reason to think to try a right click for price retrieval.

: There is a new concept called the "Active Portfolio" which controls what is graphed. This is the one with the red check mark on it in the Portfolio Editor. You can set this by right mouse clicking. You can also set it in the Graphs window under "Investments / Set Active Portfolio". By setting the active portfolio, this controls which investments are included in the graphs.

similar situation in this case. one would expect that the highlighted, and listed on right, investments are the ones being acted upon by a command.

: When you create a report, there is a drop down combo box that allows you to select which portfolio to create the report for. You can create it for any sub-portfolio. All sub-portfolios below the selected one are included.

similarly for creating reports.

being able to use highlighting to pick subport (or the 'master port'), including the ability to use ctrl to highlight more than one subport at a time, would greatly increase the intuitiveness of the program, and even more so, the flexibility. the user wouldn't be restricted to creating a report (or price retrieval, or graphs) for only one subport and the ones directly below, but for any combination. this could be very useful, and intuitive.

: If the same stock is in two portfolios you probably want to have 2 separate investment files, so you can track the transactions separately. In this case, you would just record the transactions as they happen, and the proceeds will come out of or go into the default cash account for their portfolio.

i considered this approach. since the transactions would always be the same, just affecting two different ports cash accounts.

(perhaps explaining the point behind this will help, and maybe there is yet another way to approach it: I am trying to track a particular investing technique. for various reasons, the buys/sells using this technique is spread across more than one real brokerage account. so clearly, i need to reflect the transactions in their individual cash accounts. in addition, i aloted, on paper only, a specific amount of money to devote to this technique, so i create an imaginary cash account. the real stock buy/sells have to impact this imaginary account also so that i can track were i am in relation to the amount of cash i 'started out with'. so, both the real brokerage account/ports and the imaginary account/port have the individual stocks in them.)

if i had different copies of all stocks for each account this would multiply the number of investments in the 'open investment' screen. making my life a bit more difficult whenever i was trying to find a particular investment to open.

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• Re: reorganize portfolios Mark 22:24:05 08/26/05 (0)