How to I get pricing data for bonds?

Pricing data for bonds can be retrieved using the Finra - Bonds quote server.  You need to enter the bond's CUSIP into the symbol property of your bond investment.

To find the CUSIP for your bond you can often get it from your broker, or you can look it up on Finra's web site.  Another good source for finding bond CUSIPs is InvestingInBonds.com.

In order to retrieve prices from Finra - Bonds you can either select it to be your default quote server, or you can choose to only retrieve your bond investments from this server.  To only retrieve your bond investments from this server, select this server for each bond investment under "Investment Properties... / Internet Retrieve", or if you are using the Advisor version you can select it on a per-symbol basis using "Edit / Symbol List... / Internet Retrieve / Edit...".

Bond pricing is typically around 100, as it is a percentage of face value.  To get a correct bond valuation you normally record the shares as 1/100th the face value.  See Recording Bond Transactions in the documentation.

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