Strange behavior in advanced portfolio report

[Derek Atkins]

Sébastien Monnet <sebastien.monnet at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Every month, I like to compute the gain (or loss) of my stocks (to  
> add a unrealized gain). As I have some funds for which the quote is  
> one or two days late was I do is the following:
> I use the portfolio report at the begining of next month, once I've  
> make sure that I've got all the quotes for the last month (for  
> instance today for the month of January), I use cron to get the  
> quotes automatically everyday.
>
> I'm confused because:
> if I set the date of the report (advanced portfolio) to "end of  
> previous month", the report takes into account quotes of today  
> (02/02/2007), so I entered manualy "31/01/2007" and it took into  
> account quotes of 01/02/2007...
> So, to have what I want (i.e. the state of my portfolio at the end of  
> the last day of the previous month) I have to set 30/01/2007 !! (the  
> quotes taken into account are those of the 31/01/2007).
>
> Am I doing something wrong (thinking of my configuration) or is this  
> a bug (found lots of things in bugzila about advanced portfolio but  
> nothing related to this)?

It's probably a bug.  Can you file it in Bugzilla?  Provide as
much detail as you can, please.

> Thanks !
> -seb

-derek

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