Entering Price & Volume Data

Quotes & Splits
The Quotes and Splits page offers options to maintain current and historic price and volume data for stocks, mutual funds, market indexes, bonds and options. Price and volume data may be entered manually or downloaded from the internet or imported from other data files that are available from a variety of information services. MI is capable of maintaining daily price histories on each security and adjusting the data for stock splits. This price history forms the basis for computations of net worth, return on investment, portfolio valuations, unrealized gains, etc. In fact, the current and historic prices are used in nearly all of the reports produced by MI.

In addition to security price and volume data, MI also maintains a database containing weekly valuations of net worth for each portfolio. The Build Net Worth History option in the Prices menu provides a means of maintaining this database.

Entering Price and Volume Data
Price and volume data may be entered, edited or deleted by clicking the appropriate Stock, Bond, Put or Call Quotes button. Once the appropriate button has been clicked, the Price Quotes screen will be displayed with the following information.

Table VII-1: Manual Price Entry Data

Data Field Description

Security Name: Click the command button (labeled Stock/Fund, Bond or Option as appropriate) to select the security for which prices are to be entered, edited or deleted. After entering prices for a given security, you may click this button to select another security of the same type (Stock, Bond, etc.).

Quote Date: Enter the quote date for which prices are to be entered, edited or deleted. Alternatively, an existing quote for the security may be selected by clicking on the Browse button.

Volume:Enter the share volume in hundreds.

Last, High, Low, Open: If you are entering a new quote, the high, low and open fields will be automatically filled in with the value of last when it is first entered. This saves time when entering quotes for mutual funds that have no daily high, low or open price.

Save: Click the Save button to save any changes you have made to the price record displayed.

Delete: Click the Delete button to delete a displayed price record. The delete button is enabled only when an existing price record is displayed. Once a record is deleted, you may undelete it by clicking the UnDelete button.

Exit button: Click the Exit button to exit price entry mode after all entries have been saved.