Re: Portfolio Performance 1 day off

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In Reply to: Portfolio Performance 1 day off posted by Robert on February 12, 2000 at 02:38:31:

: Hi Mark - I just upgraded to 4.5 from 3.x. I download my stock prices every evening, and every evening I run a Portfolio Performance Report to see how I did today. In FM 3.x, I would begin the report with yesterday's date and end with today's date. That would give a report on how I did today. In FM 4.5, these dates give me a report on how I did yesterday, not today. In other words, if I put in 2/10/2000 as the start date and 2/11/2000 as the end date, I should get a report on how my stocks differed from 2/10/2000. But I don't. I get a report on how they did on 2/10/2000, not 2/11/2000. Is this a bug or was 4.5 designed to be different from 3.x in this regard? I find it confusing and difficult to change after using 3.x for a few years.

Hi Robert,
This is working as intended, and was changed between 3.x and 4.x. The idea
is that when you set a date range for a report, all gains/performance during
that date range, inclusive of the ending dates, is part of the figures
reported. If you want the performance of 2/11/2000, set the starting and
ending dates to the same. The beginning values are the value at the
start of the day on the beginning report date, which is the same as the
value on the close of the prior day.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley

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

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