[GNC] Incorrect Current Value for stock

[John Ralls]

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Regards,
John Ralls

> On Oct 15, 2018, at 8:52 AM, Gerald Mathias <mathias at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for that. I need to go through Chapter 9, Investments, very carefully. I removed the latest price (user:price, as opposed to user:split-register and Finance::Quote for earlier prices) and got rid of the extra six million dollars but I find lots of mysteries in the Price Database besides just how that crazy price got there in the first place. 
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> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 7:04 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> > On Oct 14, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Gerald Mathias <mathias at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > My Stock pages have "Current Value: " followed by a dollar amount at the
> > bottom. The dollar amount in all but five cases is exactly the same as the
> > "Buy" entry above.
> > 
> > In four cases "Current Value" and "Buy" figures are rather different, but
> > not shockingly so.
> > 
> > In the fifth case, I have "Shares 120; Price 100.57; Buy 12,068.40." Then
> > "Current Value: $6,852,000.00." I'm pretty sure that is wrong, but what is
> > causing the error?
> 
> The current value is the number of shares times the latest price in the price database, so open Tools>Price Database and check the prices for that stock.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>