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If you don't want to buy an application - of which there are probably billions of them if you google search.
the low cost way.
I assume you use a spreadsheet - you use a macro
or you could use something like this and link the cell to your portfoli…
IRA is a tax deferred account. You are only taxed when you withdraw from your traditional IRA. It doesn't matter what funds you buy in your ira (except for maybe MLPs)
Reply to @CathyG:
wash you troubles away with this:
http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/1900/fund-purchase-and-reinvestment-calculator/p1
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When daily % volatility exceeds ytd % changes, is it any wonder no one is willing to step out on a limb, to yet again make a prediction that is 180% off.
How many shares did you have on Dec.28??? Is M* showing you a total dividend distribution for the year summed up or just the December distribution?
Scottrade looks to be correct for the monthly distribution. assuming M* dividend distribution is c…
Reply to @Maurice:
Just started reading a fascinating book on patents and pharmaceutical industry called
"Deadly Monopolies: The shocking corporate takeover of life itself - and the consequences for your health and our medical future./ by Hariet A…
Reply to @CathyG:
Re USNews has changed the way the links work and I can't adapt my program to easily work with their new linking strategy. It is not a problem with USNews but the method to search for it from the programs I have created.
Mai…
Reply to @CathyG:
Thank you for the thank you and thank you for finding a problem in the name lookup for ETF's which should now work at www.mutualfundobserver.com/the-navigator
e.g. if you type "telecom" or "proshares" or "ishares" they should …
You might get more responses in the Fund Discussions Category.
Edit your original post and choose fund discussions instead of technical discussions from the drop down box. This will move it into the correct category.
If you put the ticker in caps…
Whew! Thanks for your help folks.
Anyone interested in an ETF navigator similar to the Fund Navigator (plan on changing name from De'Scramblin man unless David and/or Chip have another suggested name).
Reply to @catch22:
thank you catch and mark,
Did you put a space after the word india. Since india is 5 characters and the lookup requires 6 characters, any words shorter than 6 characters need a space after it. I could shorten the lookup to 5 c…
Reply to @Maurice:
Mo, at one time you wanted to see different classes for a fund. This should be an improvement over the last try. see instructions http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/512/fwiw-added-fund-name-looku…
I guess I've been lucky. I send priority mail occasionally and receive it and it always seems to come in within scheduled time. hope they don't turn the Post Office into what happened to the railroads - no tracks and freight priority over passenge…
click on the inbox coversation you want to delete. you will see the conversation displayed. Look on the right there will be a box that says delete conversation, click on it.
Unfortunately, clicking the delete button just deletes the conversation f…
to get stock quotes in LibreCalc you can do this
In LibreOffice Calc select Insert > Link to External Data.
put the url from yahoo in
e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?FAIRX
choose
html table 1 in the data ranges and the nav date and change…
If this is what I undertand you are looking for - here's how to do it.
Depending on your browser options - use the copy link option.
e.g.
Place you mouse over the permalink (to the right of the time) of the comment you want to link to and right cli…
