Updating from foreign stock markets

SPP

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Nov 15, 2009, 4:33:17 AM11/15/09

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I want to update securities from European stock exchanges such as UK
and France. How can I do this automatically please? I appeciate I can
manually enter the prices.

John Pollard

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Nov 15, 2009, 10:36:47 AM11/15/09

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Quicken doesn't offer much in the way of prices for foreign securities.
If you can find a source that will give you a properly formatted comma
delimited file of those prices, Quicken can import prices from .csv files.

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John Pollard

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Nov 16, 2009, 2:32:45 AM11/16/09

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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:36:47 -0600, "John Pollard"
<8plu...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Quicken doesn't offer much in the way of prices for foreign securities.
>If you can find a source that will give you a properly formatted comma
>delimited file of those prices, Quicken can import prices from .csv files.

Thanks John.

Is there a template or layout for this please? Under the
circumstances, it will have to do.

John Pollard

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Nov 16, 2009, 10:32:57 AM11/16/09

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SPP wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:36:47 -0600, "John Pollard"
> <8plu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Quicken doesn't offer much in the way of prices for foreign
>> securities. If you can find a source that will give you a properly
>> formatted comma delimited file of those prices, Quicken can import
>> prices from .csv files.

> Is there a template or layout for this please? Under the
> circumstances, it will have to do.

In Quicken > Help > Search Quicken help, key "import", click "Ask",
select, "How do I import data into Quicken?", and keep opening appropriate
links and you will see the format for a comma delimited file of prices and
how to import it.

Note: you will have to assign ticker symbols to your Quicken securities
(that you want to import prices for) even if they do not have tickers in
the real world (any unique text should do). The .csv file must use the
same ticker as your Quicken security.

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John Pollard

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Nov 17, 2009, 3:49:57 PM11/17/09

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Many thanks John. Will let you know how I get on.

SPP

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Nov 17, 2009, 5:36:28 PM11/17/09

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I managed to import historical prices for a particular security.
Quicken said "30 items imported". I can see the correct value of the
security but when I try and view the graph of prices, no graph line is
displayed although other securities show the graphs of past prices.
Any views please?

John Pollard

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:35:42 AM11/18/09

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To see what prices actually got imported for that security, select the
security in the Security Detail View and click Update > Edit Price
History.

If there was something wrong with the dates in the .csv file, Quicken may
have imported all the prices for "today" [or "Date (if not specified):" in
the Import Price Data dialog.]

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John Pollard

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Nov 18, 2009, 4:11:26 PM11/18/09

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How very strange! I could not see the weely or monthly graph. I tried
to se the yearly one and it came up. Tried the weekly and monthly and
it comes up!!

Trying the yealy one somehow made it to work! Strange!