Advanced Automatic Investor

[AIMster]

Hi, Mark,

Thanks for the prompt reply. Much appreciated.

>>"Currently my positions have me at 12% cash reserve. I'd like to increase this to 20%"

>You should be able to do what you want by using the "Add >Interest or Dividends" function on the "Cash Reserve" menu. >This just adds cash to the account without adjusting the :Portfolio Control or requiring you to purchase equity.

It does. It also changes the Profit/Loss figure by now showing XX$ profit, whilst it does also correctly increase cash. So the tradeoff at this point (for what I'm doing anyway) is skewed profit figures or action advice to ignore.

>If you have some examples of the kind of edits you're thinking of, I will look at them to see whether they're "safe" edits.

When I was setting these up (3 positions in one portfolio to show a common cash reserve amount rather than a per diem allocation) I'd transposed the price on the first fund that I entered, $15.72 instead of $15.27. This using the Equity mode of loading the data as these were prexisting positions. Since the program required the load one right after the other, I didn't catch the error until all three (thank goodness only three!) funds had been entered. The balance that AI was showing was not what my brokerage was showing. I had no way to go back (that I could quickly discern as a novice user) and fix the errant price on the first entry without blowing away the whole thing and starting again from scratch.

I had also tried to walk the portfolio individually through the end of July to bring it current to early August and I found a little 'bug' - as I was entering cash for a prior date, AI posted it in the running history using the current date, even though I'd given it the earlier date in the posting function itself. I also found that once there's a later or current date in there one can't post anything earlier. I know, not a bug, a feature! <grin>.

One more thing, on Windows 2000 Professional, when I exit out of AI if I bring up the task manager it stil shows it as a running application. I can then end them out just fine. It was weird this morning finding that the machine thought there were still two of 'em running when I'd shut 'em off last night!

Thanks again.

Patrick