tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/suggestions/260-updating-eu-uk-mutual-fund-prices-in-mdInfinite Kind: Discussion 2013-04-21T08:59:14Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422009-12-06T12:04:25Z2009-12-06T12:04:25ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>Hi</p>
<p>1) You are correct that there is some disparity between the
finance.yahoo.com and finance.yahoo.co.uk. And that disparity is
usually in the absence of UK mutual funds from the .com site. We
are currently investigating a solution for downloading price
information that will be able to access data from more than one
source. I am afraid I do not have a time frame for when such a
feature would be implemented.</p>
<p>2) I am not sure exactly what you are referring to here, could
you attach a screen shot such that I can better understand.</p>
<p>I am sorry for not responding sooner.</p>
<p>Sincerely</p>
<p>Ben Spencer</p></div>Ben Spencertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422009-12-09T19:28:22Z2009-12-09T19:28:22ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>Dear Ben,</p>
<p>Disappointing that modifying the add to be able to select
preferred site for down loading prices for customers outside the US
is not a priority, with MS Money and Quicken now withdrawn from the
UK market, there is a real need for a good personal finance package
- Moneydance fits the gill with the one exception noted.</p>
<p>Regarding the other point I made. To test Moneydance, I imported
four accounts with a limited number of transaction:</p>
<p>1) A euro account that had no transfer transactions to accounts
in other currencies</p>
<p>2) A British pound account that had no transfer transactions to
accounts in other currencies</p>
<p>3) A British Pound account that had transfers a couple of
transfers from a Euro account</p>
<p>4) A British Pound investment account to test the price
updates</p>
<p>The base currency was set as British Pounds when I set-up the
text file</p>
<p>The question I had was: why does the account set-up under 2)
have some transactions with a Euro equivalent and an exchange rate
while other do not (e.g. first transaction on 24th Nov in attached
screen dump amongst others). The Euro account does not show any
British Pound equivalents below the actual amount.</p>
<p>I hope that the wished for enhancement can be prioritised.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>Martin Higgs</p>
<p>-----Original Message----- From: Ben Spencer [mailto:<a href=
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Sent: 06 December 2009 13:04<br>
To: <a href=
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Subject: Re: Updating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD [Switching
to Moneydance from Microsoft Money?]</p></div>Exspextationstag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422009-12-10T22:27:33Z2009-12-10T22:27:35ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>Another vote for UK fund price updates. Unfortunately the
absence of this meant I had to go back to using MS Money 2003 which
for some strange reason has once again begun to download fund price
updates when previously it would not.</p>
<p>I'm still looking for a new package that will provide UK Fund
Updates, I also think there is a market for this in the UK and
EU.</p>
<p>Mickey</p></div>Mickeytag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422010-02-11T12:30:17Z2010-02-11T12:30:21ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>I have been using Moneydance for two or three years now and it
is frustrating that the Yahoo pricing used to work fine in 2007 and
has been increasingly unreliable. It would update consistently in
the past and now it has become a manual job. Has anyone at
Moneydance asked Yahoo why they changed it?</p>
<p>If it worked properly Moneydance would be a good cross platform
solution.</p></div>mwvmtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422010-02-11T14:48:01Z2010-02-11T14:48:01ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>Unfortunately, yahoo has been fairly inconsistent of late with
the data they've been providing, I am not sure why. We are working
on updates for stock quote downloading extension which will
download from more than just yahoo which should hopefully mitigate
some of their irregularity issues. Not sure yet when the new
version will be available though.<br>
Jon Hoover, Moneydance Support</p></div>Jon Hoovertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422010-02-11T15:14:55Z2010-02-11T15:15:18ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>I gave up on using the moneydance stock price updater. The
results are inconsistent, and many not so common stocks/funds are
not available. BTW, I'm located in Germany. Therefore, I hacked
together a mix of perl and python scripts to download share, mutual
fund and currency prices using Finance::Quote from cpan:<br>
<a href=
"http://search.cpan.org/dist/Finance-Quote/lib/Finance/Quote.pm">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Finance-Quote/lib/Finance/Quote.pm</a><br>
All the sources listed there should work. I use vwd as data source
for shares and funds, yahoo for currencies.</p>
<p>I use the scripts on a Linux box, they should work on Mac OS. I
can't comment on Windows. I'm happy to share.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: Works for me, may not work for you. You will need to
edit configuration details in perl files. You will need to download
and install modules from cpan. Does not come with documentation. If
this does not scare you off and you want to try, pls let me
know.<br></p></div>Wolfgang Danieltag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422011-02-18T08:00:26Z2011-02-18T08:00:28ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've also just hit this problem, having moved my pension fund to
a SIPP and an array of funds.</p>
<p>Its been a long standing problem. <a href=
"http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1203329190">http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1203329190</a></p>
<p>I found and tried <a href=
"http://www.mennesoft.com/yahooqt/">http://www.mennesoft.com/yahooqt/</a>
which seems to gives more control (allowing the choice of UK or US
Yahoo and Google). But still no joy for Funds.</p>
<p>Wolfgang - I'm on a Mac, and have a programmer background - I'd
love to see your scripts if thats possible ?</p>
<ul>
<li>Paul</li>
</ul></div>paultag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422011-02-18T11:27:20Z2011-02-18T11:27:20ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>As a licenced and long time user of Moneydance I have, by hand,
laboriously entered fund as well as stock prices weekly. I too
decided to use the Yoohoo uk fund tickers and was disappointed when
the package failed to download fund prices. It is good that someone
is looking at the issue but I was disappointed that it seems to be
treated rather casually with no time schedule. Moneydance is all
and more than it promised but the offer by Wolfgang to users should
really be taken up by Moneydance to speed the process.</p>
<p>Otherwise the range of extensions is good and a lot of thought
has gone into it.</p></div>Erroltag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422011-02-18T13:55:41Z2013-04-21T08:59:14ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>Guys</p>
<p>I will repeat here my other posting and agree that there are a
number of people far more knowledgeable than me that have offered
help. MD should take up these offers.</p>
<p>Earlier Post</p>
<p><a href=
"http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/switching-to-moneydance-from-microsoft-money/1160-uk-mutual-funds-online-current-price-problems">
http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/switching-to-moneydance-fr...</a></p>
<p>See my comments at the end.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>Neville</p></div>nevilletag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/5906422011-02-25T19:11:22Z2011-02-25T19:11:22ZUpdating EU / UK mutual fund prices in MD<div><p>Hey all,</p>
<p>We are working on the funds issue, but sadly at this point it
appears to be an issue with Yahoo's data, and although we're
working on a solution there isn't currently anything which is
accessible (and free) that we can implement. We will continue
working on a solution, and will be updating the thread Neville
referenced (to which the issue ticket is attached) when we have
more information. I'm sorry I don't have a more immediate
solution,</p>
<p>Angie Rauscher<br>
Moneydance Support</p></div>Angie Rauscher