To: investor0329, You are never going to consistently get timely data when it comes to mutual fund distributions. There is no central source of data like there is for stock price data from NASDAQ and NYSE. You are at the mercy of the owners of a mutual fund. Gary gets distribution data for a particular fund after the owners of a fund report the distribution to the company he buys his data from and the company transmits the data to its customers. Gary is not in the business of collecting distribution data from the owners of mutual funds.
If you use Quotes Plus Distribution data to select mutual funds to buy or sell you will have to learn to live with the vagaries of the data. I see no reason for Gary to change his business model and you will not get any sympathy from other Quotes Plus users. Howard investor0329 wrote: > > Also, 5 out of 30 is a 17% failure rate. Apply that to 13000 or so > mutual fund tickers..across all months ongoing..and what you have are > many many adjustments that have not been made. That may be fine for > you if you just visually look at graphs..but when you use a computer > and programs, things have to be more or less right or it is of little > use. > > Why wasn't hflax not adjusted again for its recent adjustment, nor > nezyx? > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:quotes-plus%40yahoogroups.com>, "investor0329" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I currently own hflax and nezyx. Both have recent distributions > > according to QP. Neither look like they were adjusted. That is 2 > for 2. > > If you look at a graph of these, you can see the gapping price > movement > > where an adjustment apparently was not made. > > > > So..are mutual funds adjusted, or not? Is it done programmatically > or > > by hand? Are some adjusted, and others not? This isn't the first > time > > hflax hasn't been adjusted...as I have called it in before..and if > I > > never did report it..would it have been fixed? There are 1000s of > > mutual fund tickers. If I only have 2 of them and both are not > > adjusted, what about all the rest? I only mention this because I > build > > models to pick my investments. One of the things i look for is > yield > > divided by volatility. If these are not adjusted properly..or in a > > timely manner, my work is a useless effort as the volatility > readings I > > compute are all wrong. And no way will i attempt to do it by hand > > because when I do my search and run my models, i run it against all > > funds as I don't know which I will choose in advance until after i > run > > my models. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:quotes-plus%40yahoogroups.com>, "Harry M. Ward" <hmw3@> wrote: > > > > > > On 10 Feb 2007 08:41:07 -0000, "investor0329" mb0329@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >>Are mutual funds prices supposed to be adjusted for > distributions, > > > >>because as of late, they don't seem to be. Can I assume that > going > > > >>forward, that they aren't adjusted? > > > > > > What do you mean "as of late"? I just checked about 30+ funds > that I > > > follow. All but 5 were updated correctly for their December > > > distributions. For those that were not updated, it appeared they > got > > > missed by the data supplier, so I used the Mutual Fund Editor to > > > manually fix them. > > > > > > Harry > > > > > > >
