Re: Price retrievals on indices

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In Reply to: Price retrievals on indices posted by Barry on November 28, 2000 at 12:05:44:

: I created a portfolio called "Indices". It contains S&P 500(^SPX); Wilshire Tot. Mkt.(^TMW); Nasdaq(^NDQ); and DJIA(^INDU). When performing an historical update from Yahoo(adj.hist.), The only one that updates is the S&P(SPX). The other three prompts "unable to update" something or other. I have double checked everything I know e.g. typecase, investments open, correct server in internet props. etc. Still no luck. I also checked all investment options to see what might be different about the S&P. One thing that may not be pertainent, but I will mention; when I set up this particular portfolio, for some reason I created a new folder in "my data" called indices, I then open that one to reveal the mm4 file. I cant for the life of me figure how I set up the S&P index differently from the other three. Thought I would post before I delete and recreate that portfolio. By the way, how do you delete a portfolio? Do you simply close all investments in it and then save? I dont see a delete portfolio command.

Hi Barry,
You must use Yahoo's ticker symbols for these indices. They are different
(except for ^SPX) than what you show above. Please visit:

http://biz.yahoo.com/f/q.html#indices

If you want to delete a portfolio use Windows Explorer or something similar
to go delete the portfolio file (*.mm4). Portfolios and Investments are
just like documents in a word processing application. You can't delete
the document from right within the application. The idea is this is not
a very common thing to do, and a little dangerous. If you really want to
delete a portfolio or investment you can go delete it with Explorer.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley

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

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