I’m going to keep an eye on this discussion at Ed Foster’s web site. I’ve been using Quicken for maybe 10 years now, but it may finally be time to switch to something else. It just seems that Intuit is trying to squeeze money out of their customers without providing much in the way of new features from year to year.
Category: finance
Non-obvious tech tip of the day
Downloading quotes for a preferred stock into Quicken:
“Edit the symbol name in Quicken by removing the space, the P, and the R, and replacing them with a hyphen (-). “
Oh yeah, I would have eventually figured that out on my own. The P and the R! Of course! And here I was thinking I could just type in the ticker symbol as-is, off Quicken’s own friggin’ web site! What was I thinking?