Advanced Portfolio problems

[dunbrokin]

The price of 1 US$ in NZ$ (according to the Price Editor...which has given
the correct price for the last 3 years and has only recently, as in the
last 2 months...I have changed nothing.... starting giving it in the
reverse way) in 1.4932 as above. Perhaps it will be clearer from the
attached screenshots.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> --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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