Strange behavior in advanced portfolio report

Andrew Sackville-West ajswest at mindspring.com
Fri Feb 2 13:56:15 EST 2007


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:03:53AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.

man have I got to get after that thing.... time time time.

A
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