Inability to correct GBP value for Euro priced shares

Eric Coates eric.coates at sky.com
Sat Jun 10 11:47:29 EDT 2017


This is by way of a sign off note on this issue.

Based on (my understanding of) Fred Bone's suggestion that it may be old 
prices that were causing the problem I deleted all the old prices in the 
pricing database and, as already noted, the problem went away - ie I was 
getting a correct current valuation of my Airbus holdings.

However, still wondering if it may be the existence of some manually 
entered prices was causing the problem I reverted to the original 
accounts and started further investigations. And discovered it WAS a 
manually entered price that was causing the problem. It was me what had 
screwed up!

At some point, somehow I had managed to enter a price for Airbus shares 
in GBPs (I've no idea how; when adding a price manually the price is 
automatically set in Euros, I must have worked extra hard to make this 
mistake!). I removed just that one price and everything works as expected.

My apologies to Fred and Maf for wasting their time. And thanks for the 
support. Without that I suspect I would not have kept investigating. I 
now know a lot more about organising accounts, buying shares in 
"foreign" currencies and pricing.

So, sorry and thanks guys.

(And if Maf is a lady, a further apology.)




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