In microsoft.public.money, John wrote:

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I agree with those, but I think the best one a third one, that I
just tried: Go to Portfolio-> UpdatePrices-> PickQuotesToDownload and
de-select the problem investment. In retrospect, it seems obvious. I
was pleased that it worked as I had hoped.

My first try had been to put in a bogus symbol into the symbol
space. I used FAKE1 as the symbol. If I did only that, it seemed to
pull the price from the OFX file. But with
Portfolio-> UpdatePrices-> PickQuotesToDownload, the prices held. Let
us know what you find.


If you would like to get into an autopsy on the OFX file, we could
discuss what to look for. It would probably be an academic exercise.
People, including FIs, somehow aren't as eager to hear about bugs as
we start out imagining.

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Thanks for the reply - been trying to fix this using your advice over
the weekend. You're right - I have no symbol on the investment I
initially set up for this account. When the update comes in, I
combine the investment in the feed (which does NOT show a symbol when
I'm asked to combine it) with my existing investment. At this point,
the share balances are correct, but, as described above, the share
price and account balance are both 0 as of the update date.

When I go to the details for my original investment, I can now click
on "manage combined investments" - the popup that opens shows the name
of the investment in the update "Aggressive", and, although there was
no ticker/cusip in the data shown in the original merge request, Money
has put the name "Aggressive" into the CUSIP field. Since it never
finds this symbol on the quote server, it assumes it's 0...

I can see no way to remove the CUSIP from this investment - it's not
editable in the "manage combined" dialog, and I don't know how else to
access it. Any help would be appreciated in trying to get this to
work more like I'd expect.

My current options are 1) go back to manually tracking these accounts
(not too painful, few transactions/month, but no automated price
tracking even in theory), or 2) clear the fake 0 price after updates -
an annoyance and STILL no price tracking (which is what i actually
wanted), but at least I get transaction confirmations for my
efforts.

Thank you for diagnosing this Cal, I always appreciate that you (and
the few other hardcore regular posters) take the time to share your
expertise.

- John

On Nov 13, 3:51*pm, Cal Learner-- MVP <via_newsgr...[at]please.tnxwrote:
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In microsoft.public.money, John wrote:

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If you have no symbol, then Money is not getting the price from the
quote server. I would suspect the bad zero is coming in from the OFX
file.

If you have a symbol on the security, remove it.


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Running M08Dlx. I have 529 accounts that get updated through MSN/
Yodlee. Transactions and daily shares come across OK, but since it's
not a publicly traded fund/stock, there's no ticker or cusip.
Therefore, Money can't find a price for it, so it inserts a $0.00
price every time it updates, driving the 529 acct's value to $0.00.

Is there a way to tell Money to NOT try to update the price for this
particular investment when updaing quotes, but still pick up
transactions, verify share counts, etc. when updating account data.

(searched the forum & umpmfaq - didn't see anything obviously
applicable)

Thanks - John