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How do you determine accurate price with combo transactions?

4 messages,  Last post on Mar 14, 2008 at 3:39 PM

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#1 of 4 How do you determine accurate price with combo transactions? by doctorlove

Mar 12, 2008 (3:26 pm)

When you execute a transaction that is both a cover and a buy, or is both a sell and a short, the Estimated Share Price field seems to get wonky. How are we supposed to make heads or tails of it?

#2 of 4 Re: How do you determine accurate price with combo transactions? [doctorlov by doctorlove

Mar 14, 2008 (3:17 pm)

Replying to: doctorlove (Mar 12, 2008 3:26 pm)
any ideas?

#3 of 4 Re: How do you determine accurate price with combo transactions? [doctorlov by mikedrud

Mar 14, 2008 (3:29 pm)

Replying to: doctorlove (Mar 14, 2008 3:17 pm)
I see what you mean. I've done a couple "combo" transactions and the Estimated Price field is off -- as if you were only doing the one transaction (in my case, a cover rather than first a cover and then a buy).
 
Even though, in the end, the purchase went through at the right price, I couldn't tell that until I went back to my Portfolio page.
 
This is an interesting corner case. We'll investigate.

#4 of 4 Re: How do you determine accurate price with combo transactions? [doctorlov by doctorlove

Mar 14, 2008 (3:39 pm)

Replying to: mikedrud (Mar 14, 2008 3:29 pm)
With some of my wacky large share transaction experiments I've seen Estimated Price field come up as zero, which certainly looks interesting. I think somehow the system is subtracting one of the share prices from the other or something.

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