Stock price chart does not show the correct data

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Uffe

15 Jun, 2016 08:23 PM

I have some stock in Famous Brands Ltd. listed on the stock exchange in Johannesburg. In the past I have tried to download the stock prices via the Quotes and Exchange Rates extension, bud did not have much success as the ticket symbol on Yahoo Finance is not the correct one. So I have decided to update the stock price manually.

As you can see from the screen dump I only have two prices in the price history, but it not what the price chart shows. I have tried to use the clear all without any success.

Any proposals as to how we get the price chart only show the prices I can see in the price history?

  1. 1 Posted by Tom Freeman on 17 Jun, 2016 04:18 PM

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    I believe this is a currency issue. Is the security, account and base account in the same currency.

    Tom Freeman
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  2. 2 Posted by Uffe on 17 Jun, 2016 06:26 PM

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    Hi Tom,

    The security is in ZAR and the security account and base currency is in DKK.

    My point is that the chart should not be able to show any security prices that I cannot see in the price history.

    I just tested by updating the current price in the price history that I can get the price in the chart to move. That tells me that some how the current price history is stored somewhere in moneydance, and that is used by the chart and not the price history.

    I see that as a big problem when I cannot maintain that table of data, because then I cannot correct the price if there was a error in the pricing. Which there clearly has been two time in this case, when the price moved over 9000 (multiplying the correct price with 100).

    So if you want to keep this secondary table, I as a user need to be able to maintain it and reset it.

    The next interesting question becomes, which of the two table is used by moneydance when doing calculations related to securities?

    Uffe

  3. 3 Posted by Tom Freeman on 24 Jun, 2016 07:02 PM

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    One think I want to check is if the preferences is set to "," as decimal place. Please go to file > preferences. Under file confirm that decimal is the comma. If this is not the issue there may be a bug in that the chart is nor recognizing the comma as the decimal setting.

    Tom Freeman
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  4. 4 Posted by Uffe on 05 Jul, 2016 03:58 PM

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    Hi Tom,

    the decimal character is set to a comma.

    Uffe

  5. 5 Posted by Tom Freeman on 19 Jul, 2016 02:45 PM

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    I am sorry for the late reply. I've been playing with currency and decimal place holders and can not replicate this issue.

    Does it happen in any other security? Did you import your data file from another personal fiance software?

    Tom Freeman
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  6. 6 Posted by Uffe on 23 Jul, 2016 07:30 PM

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    Hi Tom,

    Yes, I have seen this happen to other securities, where I have deleted the price history. It seems as if not all history records are delete, if the security have had entries in multiple currencies over time.

    I have until now not imported any data from other personal finance software. I tired it in the past, but it did not give me the advantage I had hoped for.

    Uffe

  7. 7 Posted by Tom Freeman on 28 Jul, 2016 05:18 PM

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    I want to set up a test case to replicate this issue for the developers.

    For the securities where this occurs, do you own them in other investment accounts?

    Tom Freeman
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  8. 8 Posted by Uffe on 13 Aug, 2016 08:21 PM

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    Hi Tom,

    Sorry for the late feedback. I have had vacation.

    The Famous Brands Ltd. stock I only have in one investment account. I can no longer remember íf I original had it in an other investment account that I deleted as it did not show the right data.

    Uffe

  9. 9 Posted by Tom Freeman on 30 Aug, 2016 10:44 PM

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    I apologize for the late response. There is an issue with the stock chart being affected by currency valuation. I think this is what is causing the chart to be off.

    Which version of MD are you using? Help About MD.

    Tom Freeman
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  10. 10 Posted by Uffe on 31 Aug, 2016 05:31 PM

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    Hi Tom,

    I am running version 2015.8 (1363)

    Uffe

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