REQ: Help

[gray]

I am running Quicken 2002 Deluxe. My operating system is W2K.

Today I encountered a problem after doing an update of the security
prices. I have our bank saving listed as a money market "security".
The shares are priced at $1. Today when I did an update the share
prices were changed from $1 to numbers between $65 to 75 beginning
back from the opening of the account. I had even restored from an old
file but every time I do an update of prices the same thing occurs.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this problem. The only
way i was able to get rid of all of the bad numbers was to zero out
the price history for that account.

Any ideas would be appreciated. If someone needs any more information
on this problem please post here and I will supply as best I can.

TIA

[John Pollard]

gray wrote: I am running Quicken 2002 Deluxe. My operating system is W2K. Today I encountered a problem after doing an update of the
security prices. I have our bank saving listed as a money market
"security". The shares are priced at $1. Today when I did an update the
share prices were changed from $1 to numbers between $65 to 75
beginning back from the opening of the account. I had even restored
from an old file but every time I do an update of prices the same
thing occurs. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this problem. The
only way i was able to get rid of all of the bad numbers was to
zero out the price history for that account. Any ideas would be appreciated. If someone needs any more information on this problem please post here and I will supply
as best I can.

I don't have answers; just questions.

Are you saying you have setup a bank savings account as an
Investment account containing a money market fund security in
Quicken?

It has been my impression that there are no "prices" available
for download of money market funds; are you saying that you have
been getting such prices and up 'til now they were (correctly)
downloading at $1 per share, but suddenly not only downloaded at
something other than $1, but modified previously downloaded
prices????

I confess I do not understand setting up the account as a
security - I doubt it really is a security, no matter what the
bank calls it - and I think you could just as easily set it up
as a true Quicken bank account and avoid worrying about
"prices". (I have a "money market" savings account with B of A,
but it is not a mutual fund, it is a bank account and that is
how I set it up in Q).

It was not clear from your post whether you attempted to "do an
update of prices" after you had "zero[ed] out the price history
for that account".

And when you say "do an update of prices", how exactly do you do
that? And why? Since it is a money market security, its price
will always be $1, you only need one price, dated at or before
your first "purchase".

A long shot guess is that you might have some corruption in your
price history file. You could test this theory by renaming
QDATA.QPH (use your file name in place of QDATA) and starting
Quicken and then redoing whatever was causing the prices to get
changed to incorrect values. If the problem does not recur,
your price history was corrupted and you are stuck with the
choice of living with the mis-pricing (by renaming the QPH file
back to QDATA.QPH), or reconstructing your price history ...
Quicken will get more-or-less the last five years for you (with
a price history download) except for such things as bonds which
you would have to re-enter manually.


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John Pollard
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[Bob L.]

"gray" <senioruser@go.com> wrote in message
news:nj3rjvgnejl8d7s3scr1p5hr8nuf83d3kr@4ax.com... I am running Quicken 2002 Deluxe. My operating system is W2K. Today I encountered a problem after doing an update of the security prices. I have our bank saving listed as a money market "security". The shares are priced at $1. Today when I did an update the share prices were changed from $1 to numbers between $65 to 75 beginning back from the opening of the account. I had even restored from an old file but every time I do an update of prices the same thing occurs. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this problem. The only way i was able to get rid of all of the bad numbers was to zero out the price history for that account. Any ideas would be appreciated. If someone needs any more information on this problem please post here and I will supply as best I can. TIA

Since you already have it set up as a security, couldn't you just uncheck it
from the list of securities to be updated? Then it will always show it as
estimated based on the last price available, which will be $1.

Bob L.