Version 12 Price Update Problem

[dellwo]

I have a strange problem while trying out the new version 12.

Ctrl-I updates the prices fine.
But, when I 'Update Transactions' (F8) it changes the current NAV of two stocks.
Both prices change to $212.56. The stocks are:
ETN (changes from 49.55 to 212.56)
FLPKX (38.24 to 212.56)

Ctrl-I corrects it and F8 screws it up again repeatably.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Joe

[Mark]

Hi Joe,

When you retrieve transactions, the broker also reports closing prices, and Fund Manager updates your closing prices with these broker reported closing prices. I'm not sure why they would update incorrectly though, unless there is either a bug or a problem with the data from your broker. Can you try turning on logging (Options / General Preferences... / Other) and then do another retrieve. Take a look at the xmldump.txt file. Search for SECINFO, and look in there at the UNITPRICE and UNIQUEID. That price is updated for investments with that CUSIP. Is it updating differently than shown in that file? If you'd like you can also email us that xmldump.txt file, and I can take a look for you.

[dellwo]

Tonight they both updated to 212.22.
XMLDump shows one with that price the other is correct.


- SECINFO
- SECID
- UNIQUEID (TRKY)
- UNIQUEIDTYPE (CUSIP)
- SECNAME (EATON COM SHRS FUND)
- FIID (TRKY)
- UNITPRICE (212.22)


- SECINFO
- SECID
- UNIQUEID (2095)
- UNIQUEIDTYPE (CUSIP)
- SECNAME (FID LOW PRICED STK K)
- FIID (2095)
- UNITPRICE (38.07)

[Mark]

Hi dellwo,

If you check the CUSIP of your two investments updating with this price, are they both the same (TRKY)?

[dellwo]

Ok, I did investments properties and the Low Price Stock had the wrong cusip. Fixed!
The ETN stock price is the difference between the OTC stock and 401k fund 'stock' price.
FM didn't update the price in previous versions when I did F8. Is there a setting for that?

I'm ok now though.

Thanks for your help, Joe

[Mark]

Hi dellwo,

Glad it is fixed. There isn't a regular option to disable price updates when retrieving transactions. This has been a feature since version 10.4. However, we do have a registry option, that you could use to turn it off. I wouldn't really recommend it unless you had some other reason to do so, like your broker was providing bad data. To turn off price updates when retrieving transactions you can create a string value in this registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Beiley Software\Fund Manager\CurrentVersion\miscprefs

named:

skipTpriceimport

and set it to a value of "1". You can do this with "regedit".

[dellwo]

Thanks, I'll have to decide what to do.

The company stock fund in my 401k doesn't have a ticker to update prices so I used the regular stock to get it to track pretty well. Unfortunately, that meant I had to fake the number of shares to match the different price. Maybe, I'll just have to do F8 every day.

Different issue this morning. Tried to do F8 and Fidelity says "Invalid Date Range".
It is from today to today. If I do from yesterday to today it is ok.
Maybe it's to early in the day, but it was never an issue before.

Thanks, Joe

[Mark]

Hi Joe,

I'm not sure about the Fidelity issue. That error sounds like it is coming from Fidelity, not Fund Manager. You might simply change the starting date to yesterday, and just make sure to leave on the "Skip Transactions Already in Fund Manager" option.