Re: Weird Problem

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In Reply to: Re: Weird Problem posted by Mark on November 01, 2005 at 11:42:33:

: : Hi Mark,

: : I am using your professional version 7, and I am having a strange problem, which is quite difficult to explain as well.

: : My portfolio report of 1 day (i.e. today) will not update untill halfway during the day. When I perform an internet price update, the previous days prices are updated. My opening share prices are therefore incorrect. There seems to have been in shift in the server time?

: : I am using Yahoo ASX and NZ server. My updates have always been working, until a couple of days ago. I hazard a guess that since we moved onto summertime, the server time and my computer time may be different -

:
: Hi Dov,

: To figure out what is going on, you can look at the prices retrieved by Fund Manager, and then go to Yahoo with your browser, and look up the prices there. Do they match? Maybe Yahoo is slower in posting updated prices for your securities? To look at the recorded prices in Fund Manager use the Data Register (Edit / All Data...) with the "Prices" data type selected.

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

Hi Mark,

There is a definite problem that I am unable to rectify. FOr example, I have compared data from Yahoo, ASX and FM. All of my shares are incorrect, but I will give you an example:

01 Nov BHP Closing prices: ASX 20.89; Yahoo 20.89; FM 20.86
02 Nov BHP Closing prices: ASX 20.70; Yahoo 20.70; FM 20.15

Now the closing price of BHP today in FM is correct as of now (ASX has now closed - 20.28), but this will be updated to an incorrect value when the markets open tomorrow. For about half the day, the updates tomorrow will update todays prices, then will start updating tomorrows prices.

I have always had this problem when updating exchange rate prices as I am using the Yahoo server (not Yahoo ASX and NZ), and so the day actually ends on US time, not on Australia time. But my share updates have always been correct until 3 days ago.

Please help, it is driving me mad.

Thanks.

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• Re: Weird Problem Mark 10:21:55 11/03/05 (0)