Does anyone know what is the format to track option prices in Quicken? For example for the QQQ 36 november call, i tried - QQQKJ, QQQ360K.U, QQQKJ.X, it wont update the price. Anyone?

I tried Money on several occasions in the last 2 years. Never could get it to work for me. Recently tried Quicken and it just worked. That sold me right there.

for anyone in the DC area, money 2004 won't work with Chevy Chase Bank...i had to upgrade

alyosha said:Does anyone know what is the format to track option prices in Quicken? For example for the QQQ 36 november call, i tried - QQQKJ, QQQ360K.U, QQQKJ.X, it wont update the price. Anyone?
Quicken 2005 doesn't support Option quote download. Which is odd because you can use the 'Online Quotes' on the Investing Center page to get option quotes from Yahoo Finance.

mshen11 said:in quicken, is there any way to attach/associate files with an entry (ie - scanned receipts)? is there any way to make detailed notes for a particular entry (currently it is limited length)? their mileage tracker isnt the very friendly - any better way of keeping track of mileage?

No to the first two questions. What didn't you like about the mileage tracker?

Do either of these two programs allow the downloading/integration of copies of your credit reports from sites like Privacy Guard? Looking at my PG account, it doesn't look like there's a download option available. But if either MS or Intuit have thought of this, it might be a nice feature.

axolotls said:Money 2005 is a dog with fleas...I tend to agree with the sentiment although I'm unsure about the anology. A dog with fleas is afterall still the same dog it was before and if loved before will surely be loved with fleas.

Money 2005, however, is so far removed from its predecessors to almost be unidentifable. In my case, having been a MS-Money user and advocate since Money '97, the distaste that I feel for this version borders on hatred.

I upgraded from Money 2004 Deluxe to Money 2005 Premium a few months ago and just last week lost all online access in both my main file as well as backups. I had to rebuild everything from scratch going back 3+ months. It was a nightmare that I don't wish on anybody else. MS-Money tech support was of absolutely NO help.

I'm attempting to update the Money FAQ referenced in the main FAQ with an update and support resources, but the FAQ has been archived. The mods have suggested creating new Money FAQ rather than unarchiving the old and that is what I intend to do.

For the time being, however, please register issues here until I get the new FAQ up.

-z

zender said:
I upgraded from Money 2004 Deluxe to Money 2005 Premium a few months ago and just last week lost all online access in both my main file as well as backups. I had to rebuild everything from scratch going back 3+ months. It was a nightmare that I don't wish on anybody else. MS-Money tech support was of absolutely NO help.

-z

I had a similar issue when I upgraded. It would not link my current accounts to BillPay and created new accounts with only my billpay transactions. I have also had problems with the online access/updates not working for several accounts. The only fix for this seems to be to delete the affected accounts and create a new account.

Does anyone know if MSM2004 supports having multiple logins to one financial institution?

My wife and I both have AMEX logins, and I can seem to only get access to one.

Mike

The adventurous might want to try jGnash. This is Free/Open Source Software that works on any platform with java. I haven't used it, but it is patterned off of GnuCash, which I am a happy user of & which others have asked about (unfortunately, for all practical purposes, GnuCash is Linux/BSD-only, but will run under OS X and possibly even windows if you work at it). The advantages of using something like jGnash are:

• It costs nothing (though you can usually get Money/Quicken FAR)
• It is cross-platform
• It will import QIFs
• It uses double-entry accounting (though this might take some time getting used to)
• No features expire
• All upgrades will also be free & occur more frequently than once a year if needed.
• Upgrades haven't broken import/export from old files from older versions

Diadvantages

• Somewhat new (1.0 release was in 2002)
• Missing some features which can be found in commercial software (some of which can be added, some of which won't be)