Handling bond purchases and sales

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"subscribe307 at verizon.net" <subscribe307 at verizon.net> writes:

> I am trying to set up an automatic sale of a bond when it matures.
> When I enter all the data in the scheduled transaction and check the
> box to create automatically I get the dialog box saying "Scheduled
> Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created" when the
> transaction is completed with the OK.  I don't understand what is
> considered a variable or if there is a way around this to have this
> transaction created automatically.

Why setup an SX?  Why not just enter the single transaction and
post-date it?    Also, I'm pretty sure the SX system does NOT handle
stock transactions (at least historically it did not support it).

> The second question I have is what to use as a symbol/abbreviation in
> order to receive updated quotes for a bond in the US in the New
> Security information when setting up the account under the
> Security/currency entry.

You need to use whatever symbol is in the quote source.

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-derek

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