Re: options transaction and retrieving price problems

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Posted by Mark on December 20, 2006 at 17:02:26:

In Reply to: options transaction and retrieving price problems posted by glenn williamson on December 20, 2006 at 15:32:41:

: having a tought time adding new option transactions via scottrade... the option symbol comes down ie. .wagav but
: in order to retrieve the pricing info i change the symbol to
: wagav.x I keep getting multiple versions of the same investment with new .wagav1, .wagav2 ,.wagav3 in my portfolio.
: what am i missing here....

Hi Glenn,

When retrieving transactions Fund Manager tries to match up incoming transactions with your existing investments in that account. If it finds a matching investment, it puts the transactions into that investment. If it can't find a matching investment, it creates a new one. (This is configurable, but this is the default behavior.)

To find a matching investment, Fund Manager first looks at the CUSIP. If the CUSIP matches, then it is considered a match. If the CUSIP of your investment is empty, Fund Manager will look for a match based on Symbol. When you retrieve your transactions, is your CUSIP being recorded properly? You can see this in "Investment Properties... / General".

It should be okay to update the symbol for retrieving prices, and leave the CUSIP alone, to match up for retrieving transactions.

Thanks,
Mark
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