Re: Security Detail Graph (?bug?)

When I do that with the stock currency selected as USD, I get the long history.
The price is not a straight line; because MD has many data points of Yen/Dollar conversion in its history.
So, what is displayed is  type of "adjusted for inflation" graph, derived from the first price ($30.24) and
the yen/exchange rate on any date back to 2003.

When I follow Kevin's suggestion with the stock currency selected as JPY, I get a single straight line at 30 yen (not $30.24, or it's yen equivalent of ~2700).  The straight line only goes back to January 2011.  Leaving it like that, and running the stock price synchronizer, loads the prices from Yahoo, and converts to yen; and, the original "transaction" price is overwritten with what is read from yahoo, around 2670 yen.  Switching the currency in the security history back to USD, the prices match Yahoo's historical prices graph; but, then, when I close the history window, the graph expands back to 2003 again.

Kent


> Correction-- The horizontal line was not at the 0 point. I believe it was at
> the current price value.
> 
> -Gordon
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Gordon Alley <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> I just tried that with one of my recently-purchased securities. When I
>> clicked the CLEAR button, the history list went blank, but the history graph
>> still started at 1997 and showed just a horizontal line at the 0 point from
>> then to the present. When I imported using transactions (there were only
>> two), it was the same chart except with the expected spike at the far right
>> (from the two recent transactions).
>> 
>> All the securities in this MD file exhibit this extended timeline problem,
>> but not securities in a separate MD file that I started several years ago.
>> 
>> Note that I'm not the OP, but have a similar problem.
>> 
>> -Gordon
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Nugent <[email protected]>wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Kent,
>>> See if this helps.  Go to 'Securities Detail', click on the 'History'
>>> button.
>>> In the resulting form, click 'Clear', then 'Import'.  Choose 'Import from
>>> Transactions'.
>>> Do not 'Save' the file if don't like the results.
>>> HTH -Kevin N.
>>> 
>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:51:47 +0900
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: [moneydance] Security Detail Graph (?bug?)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> My MD account is based in JPY; but, I also own several USD stocks.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem is that the price history graph on each security detail page
>>> extends all the way back to the first date where I've entered a JPY/USD
>>> conversion rate. Even for "new" stocks like Motorola Mobility, which just
>>> came into existence in January.
>>>> 
>>>> AFAICT, the only place to say if a stock is USD or JPY or ??? is in the
>>> history window.
>>>> 
>>>> When I switch MMI to display JPY, the graph behaves correctly (the
>>> earliest point on the graph is January); but, the prices are in yen.
>>> Incidentally, past experience has shown that if this is left as JPY, and
>>> price history is imported from Yahoo, all sorts of fun things happen...
>>>> 
>>>> When I switch the history back to USD, the graph extends back to 2002
>>> again.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone else seen this problem?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Kent
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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