Price Source for Mutual Fund and Stock

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Mar 23 18:12:07 EDT 2008


I believe you forgot to attach the file.  No attachment came through.

-derek

Quoting Yogesh Agrawal <agrawaly at gmail.com>:

> I have attached the screen shot of the transaction as a jpeg file,
> I don't know if people can see the file or not,
> If not, let me know, I can upload it to web and send the links.
>
> Thanks,
> Yogesh
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Yogesh Agrawal <agrawaly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Does any body has insight on this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yogesh
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Yogesh Agrawal <agrawaly at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I am sorry, I didn't realize that it could be because of split.
>> > I am attaching the screen shot of the transaction here.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 21 March 2008 at 11:06, Yogesh Agrawal said:
>> > >
>> > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Fred Bone <
>> > > Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > On 19 March 2008 at 9:26, Yogesh Agrawal said:
>> > > [...]
>> > > > > > I have two entries in the mutual fund
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > 1) 117.428 unit @ 53.98       = 6338.76
>> > > > > > 2) 135.725 unit @ 191.628   = 26008.77
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > When I select Weighted average I see total of
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > 253.153 unit and total amount as 29286.59
>> > > [...]
>> > > > I have some other fund as well and for them I get the total amount
>> > > > correct
>> > > >
>> > > > But I am having a problem in this particular fund, as both of these
>> > > > transaction are split transactions.
>> > >
>> > > This is NOT what you implied at first.
>> > >
>> > > > So the split transaction is like, selling one mutual fund and buying
>> > > > another one.
>> > > >
>> > > > So in first case 117.428 unit @ 53.98       = 6338.76
>> > > >
>> > > > I sold something for 6338.76, in which I have capital gain of 338.75
>> > > > and then I bought 117.428 unit @ 53.98
>> > > >
>> > > > in the second case 135.725 unit @ 191.628   = 26008.77
>> > > >
>> > > > I sold something for 26,008.77, in which I have a capital gain of
>> > > > 11,305.23 and then I bought 135.725 unit @ 191.628.
>> > > >
>> > > > So which basically means instead of funding from bank, I am funding
>> > > > from the amount that I got while selling some other fund.
>> > > >
>> > > > Is it I am splitting it wrong, or there is some bug in weighted
>> > > average
>> > > > calculation in the split transaction.
>> > >
>> > > Almost certainly the former. However, as you have not given enough
>> > > detail, that's about as much as can be concluded.
>> > >
>> > > If you show precisely what is in the account, giving all the splits
>> > > for
>> > > each transaction, maybe someone can tell you what the problem is.
>> > >
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