Re: Price Update Redundancies

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Posted by Mark on September 04, 2007 at 15:34:14:

In Reply to: Price Update Redundancies posted by Steve on September 03, 2007 at 17:29:43:

: I notice that a SUBPORTFOLIO for each of my individual client accounts must be updated separately so far as price data is concerned. However, when I update prices, the price data retrieved pertains to the entire PORTFOLIO (the entire firm's portfolio). The consequence seems to be an awful lot of wasted time and disk space. Is there a simple way around this problem that I am missing? If not, can it be addressed in an upgrade?

Hi Steve,

Yes, this is how FM works. Each investment maintains its own transaction and pricing data (all stored in the *.dat investment file). When you retrieve prices, all investments with the same symbol are updated for you. If you are manually updating investments, and have a lot of the same investments in different sub-portfolios, you may consider entering your prices into a simple text file, and then 'importing' that file. This will also update all investments with the same symbol. See "File / Import / Prices / Generic...".

Consolidating the pricing data for each symbol is something we may consider for a future version. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks,
Mark
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Fund Manager - Portfolio Management Software

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