Advanced Portfolio problems

Mike Alexander mta at umich.edu
Wed Jul 15 21:44:53 EDT 2015


--On July 16, 2015 at 12:43:23 PM +1200 dunbrokin <dunbrokin at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The US$/NZ$ is 1.4932 . The price in the Price Editor of BBBY is
> US$68.8 (Google has it at US$69.03 today) and I have 523. So,
> 523*68.8*1.4932 = NZ$53,728 or so....and the basis in Advanced
> Portfolio shows NZ$35,982. Now if we multiply NZ$35,982 by 1.5 we get
> the correct number. Hence, my contention that the way the Price
> Editor picks up the FX rate has got it the wrong way around. How do
> we fix this?I have not put any FX values into the Price Editor...it
> sources them independently....and it was correct up until about 2
> months ago.

I wasn't asking for the price of BBBY in USD,  I was asking for the 
price of USD in NZD.  What is that in the price data base?  I suspect 
that's what is wrong in your file.

          Mike
 


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