Re: 500 investment limit

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In Reply to: 500 investment limit posted by Brian on October 04, 1999 at 20:53:52:

: : : If I decide to purchase your Fund Manager software, I would need to track stocks, mutual funds, etc., in my clients portfolio. Will I be able to track an unlimited amount of securities with this software?

: : Yes. You can track as many investments/portfolios as you would like.
: : The only limitation is that you can only have up to 500 investments open
: : at any one time. If you are tracking investments for clients, usually
: : you would want to create an investment for each stock/fund that
: : a particular client holds, and then create a portfolio for that client
: : to put all these investments into. You can then also create a master
: : portfolio, for all the investments of all your clients, and then
: : use this portfolio for price updates. This way you can update all
: : prices with a single retrieve.

: : Thanks,
: : Mark

:
: Hi Mark,

: Sorry to jump in. I saw your mention of 500 investment limit per portfolio and have been wondering about this for a while.

: Is the 500 limit a restriction of Microsoft or FM? The reason I ask is because many folks have account at Fund Supermarkets and have watchlists of well over 500 funds. Myself, I have a few "ALLx" portfolios that I use to download daily quotes. Each one is around 400 investments. No big deal, but it would be a lot easier if I could combine them into just one portfolio.

: Thanks,

: Brian

Hi Brian,
It is really a limitation of FM, and could be increased without too much
trouble. It use to be a problem back in the 16 bit Windows world, but in
the 32 bit environment, it could be increased to more than 500, at the expense
of occupying more memory. Even this could be minimized as well though, with some
more effort. There hasn't been a lot of feedback asking for the ability
to open more than 500 investments at once, so we haven't put the
programming resources into this. If it becomes more commonly requested, we
can adjust its priority.

Thanks,
Mark
--
Mark Beiley

Fund Manager for Windows 3.1x/95/98/NT

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