Price Source for Mutual Fund and Stock

[Derek Atkins]

"Yogesh Agrawal" <agrawaly at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <
> andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:25:47PM -0700, Yogesh Agrawal wrote:
>> >
>> > I understand recent entry, but not the nearest in time, if nearest in
>> time
>> > is  nearest to
>> > the current date, then in that case most recent and nearest in time will
>> > always come same,
>> > If nearest in time is something else, then I don't know what it is?
>>
>> nearest in time means the entry that is closest to the date set in the
>> report. So if the date of the report is set to December 31, 2007 then
>> it will show the price entry that is *closest* to that date. This is
>> different than most recent which is relative to *today*.
>>
>> A
>
>
> Got it thanks,  any idea about weighted average?

Weighted average uses only the transaction information, I.e., #shares
and "value" for each transaction.  But how it uses that information, I
don't know.  You could look in the sources to see?

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