Stocks, advanced portfolio and multi-currency

[Stefano M Canta]

The basis shows as 12766.46 CAD instead of 12766.46 USD. So the initial
price is not correctly setup, and there is no way of specifying the
currency of the initial price per share.

Stefano


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Stefano Mihai Canta, Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering Specialist
Antenna Subsystem Operations

Space Systems/Loral
3825 Fabian Way M/S G-43
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4604
Tel  1-650-852-5808
Fax 1-650-308-1808


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Stefano M Canta <cantastefano at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
> I have the following problem.
> I am based in the US and my company offers a share purchase plan.
> I invested 12766.46 USD to buy 181.223261 shares of MDA.TO, which is
> exchanged in Toronto. The brokerage valued 12766.46 USD to be 13133.55 CAD
> on May 8th 2013.
>
> The overall transaction is 12766.46 USD -> 13133.55 CAD -> 181.223261
> MDA.TO.
>
> Now I want to use the advanced portfolio report to to show my basis, and
> the possible gain, in USD.
>
> The problem is that the report uses the 13133.55 CAD but converts this
> value to USD using the online quote instead of the original price of
> 12766.46 USD. So every day my basis changes... This is not the behavior
> that I want to see for the basis. I am fine with the value of the stock
> changing every day according to the market value of MDA.TO and the
> conversion rate of USD to CAD, but the basis should only be related to the
> day I bought the stock.
>
> How do I change that in the report?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
>
>