When you download prices using One Step Update, Quicken:
- Provides the latest available prices (20 minute delay) and displays them in the Portfolio and Security Detail windows.
- Retrieves five days of prices for each update.
- Updates investment alerts online.
To put today's price in perspective, you can download up to five years' worth of historical prices for any security, then use the Security Detail View to see how today's price compares to prior performance (Internet access required).
Even if you use the online quotes feature in Quicken, there may be times when you want to edit the price history for a security by hand. For example, you might need to do this to match with the ending date of a broker's statement, or if you've been manually tracking an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) account prior to Quicken 2002.).
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