On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:56:02 +1000, "David Brownridge"
<DVD[at]melbpc.org.au> wrote:

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Sorry, but why would you need to? (Update from Commsec specifically,
that is.)

For current share prices, you should be able to just use the existing
Money live update from Standard & Poor's Comstock. You're getting the
same data as you'd be getting from Commsec. The only down side, and
yea verily this is a downside, is that you can't import historical
data relating to shares that you may be interested in tracking. Unless
you key it in, one day at a time. You can, however, track such shares
going *forward* if you remember the arcane methodology for adding the
share to your watch list.

If you'll pardon me while I grumble for a moment... IMHO there's only
ONE thing worse about Money than its share handling system. (That's
its budgeting "feature"; if you could call it that, so lame is it in
nature.) Setting up a new shareholding is painfully counter-intuitive,
it provides us with no easy facility for tracking dividend imputation
as noted in your previous post, it doesn't readily allow us to add
brokerage on purchase to the cost base of the shares since it assumes
that the cost base is simply price * quantity (and DON'T get me
started on purchase brokerage not being deductible as an expense, but
that's not Money's fault), you can't export OR import share price
data, except through the Comstock interface... [deep breath...]

The only thing that CAN be said about it is that it's better than
using Quicken, a product that I shall never, *NEVER* use again.

The irony is that although I really don't like the way Money handles
share investments, the fact that prices CAN be downloaded
automatically is the only reason that I use it. It's easier than
pulling down multiple files from Commsec and uploading them into a
custom-built, Access-based application which is what I WOULD have done
had it not been more time consuming. I sure do miss the old OzEmail
Stockwatch service, which gave daily text based files of price and
volume movements for the entire ASX. The fact that they discontinued
that is one of the main reasons that I left Ozemail behind. And I'd
readily leave Commsec behind for any other on-line broker who provided
that service as well. (Commsec lets you download such files for a
single stock... but not the whole market.)

Here endeth the grumble.

If you're having problems downloading from Comstock, post again with
details.

------------------------- Hank Scorpio
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Money 2004; Australia; "standard edition".

Is it possible to download share prices in Money from CommSec? We have the
CommSec account, but haven't been able to work out how to automatically
update share prices in Money.


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rgds
David Brownridge