I am having difficulty changing my default currency from CAD to USD.
Initially I created the investment to enable me to see both Canadian and US investments in Canadian dollars. I used the symbol CADUSD which I updated using the Wall Stree Journal server.
Then I went to Options > Currency Settings and set CAD as the default currency. In one of the currency slots I added the symbol USD and set it to what I called CADisBase/USDisCounter which was based on ther CADUSD currency pair.
When I was looking at a US investment, I could toggle back and forth to see its value in either Canadian or US dollars.. Of course, toggling on a Canadian investment had no effect as it was my default currency. Everything worked fine.
Feeling confident that I know what I was doing I tried to change my default currency to USD.
I added an investment with the symbol USDCAD. This time I set USD as the default currency. This time in one of the currency slots I added the symbol CAD and set it to what I called USDisBase/CADisCounter which was based on ther USDCAD currency pair.
I expected to be able to toggle Canadian investments back and forth between Canadian or US dollars and I expected toggling on US investments to have no effect.
What actually happened was that the currency properties of all US investments changed to Canadian and the currency of all Canadian investments changed to US.
There must be something I am missing. A little help would be appreciated.
Thanks