I suspect the delay is simply dollar related. In the same way that most
"free" stock updates are delayed by 15 mins you can for a pile of dollars
get real-time prices.

Similarly for funds. I guess Quicken are paying their supplier more than MS
are paying theirs.

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"smurfgun" <smurfgun[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks,

I guess this is a good alternative. Especially since I can't get the update
prices during the same day anyway. I know Quicken is able to retrieve the
prices the same night after 9pm or 10pm. I wonder why MS takes longer?

I do have missing history so it's too bad I can't import it =).

"Wally" wrote:

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Usually most mutual fund prices are updated by the following day but not
always. You can see a fund's performance on any given day by creating a
performance report (e.g. Performance by Investment Account) and setting both
the "from" and "to" dates to the day you are looking for. As long as you
have downloaded your share prices daily, this will give you what you're
looking for.

"smurfgun" wrote:

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Thanks for the reply.

I'm starting to understand the problem. For stocks, it works as you say and
it is great. But for my mutual funds, it seems the closing price for the day
is not available till the next day or maybe even the day after that! For
example, I loaded up money today and it downloaded some mutual fund quotes
for a couple days ago. So, if I look at "todays" performance, it shows
nothing for mutual funds. I guess this is fine. But can I see "yesterday's"
performance? i.e. a TotalChng field for a specified date? I hope this makes
sense. There is a "as of date" field on the top right in the performance
page but if I change it to past days, the totalchng field is left blank.

Thanks again,

"Wally" wrote:

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Any time you update the price of a stock it gives you the current price (
from about half an hour ago or so) and the difference between that and the
previous day's close in the investment summary which you can show on your
home page. In the reports it will show the difference between the most
recent downloaded price and the previous one. Remember that stock prices are
updated as they change throughout the day, but mutual funds only report the
previous day's close. The difference between the previous day's close and
the day before that is what is shown in the summary. In the reports it will
be the difference between the previous day's download (if you download today)
and the next most recent download.

"smurfgun" wrote:

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Hi,

I own a US stock and every day, it tells me how the stock does. i.e. the
change in value of the stock from the previous day. Does it look at the
day's price change to calculate this information or does it take the
difference between today's price and yesterday's price I downloaded.

Anyway, I have canadian mutual funds and they never give me this data. Any
ideas why it isn't?

Thanks,