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From: John Pollard on 17 Feb 2010 11:05
Jerry Boyle wrote:
> "John Pollard" <8plus7isf(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> I posted why I concluded it wasn't a bug; based on the fact that
>> Intuit chose to publish a method for achieving a "make new" result
>> ...

> Is this algorithm actually public, John? If so, where is it?

I don't recall ever seeing the criteria for a near-match anywhere.

What I did see was an Intuit knowledge base article providing basically
the same "workaround" for a mismatched near-match that I posted at the
beginning of this thread. I can no longer find that article.

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From: TomYoung on 17 Feb 2010 11:33
On Feb 17, 8:05 am, "John Pollard" <8plus7...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Jerry Boyle wrote:
> > "John Pollard" <8plus7...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:hlelfh$d1u$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> >> I posted why I concluded it wasn't a bug; based on the fact that
> >> Intuit chose to publish a method for achieving a "make new" result
> >> ...
> > Is this algorithm actually public, John? If so, where is it?
>
> I don't recall ever seeing the criteria for a near-match anywhere.
>
> What I did see was an Intuit knowledge base article providing basically
> the same "workaround" for a mismatched near-match that I posted at the
> beginning of this thread.  I can no longer find that article.
>
http://quicken.intuit.com/support/articles/using-quicken/investment/4833.html
has some general discussion about matching investment transactions.

I've copied a portion of this page below:

--------------------

Tell me how investment transaction matching works

For Quicken to identify a match, everything about the transaction must
be the same: the security, action, number of shares, price, amount,
and the ratio if it's a stock split. The dates must match exactly.

Quicken uses a scoring system to decide if a transaction is a match, a
near match, or new. If you think a new transaction might actually be
in your transaction list, find it and check the fields for data entry
errors in this order:

In this field Verify that the following is correct
Security This field must match exactly, or the transaction is marked
New.
Date The dates must be the same for an exact match. If the dates
differ by more than 14 days, Quicken considers the transaction
new; if less than 14 days Quicken may mark the transaction a
Near Match unless there are additional discrepancies.

Action If you have a linked checking account, the action must match
exactly.
Stock splits The ratio must be an exact match.
Price, Number of
shares, Amount Any difference in one of these prevents the
transaction from being marked
Match. When the difference in any of these is too great, Quicken
marks the
transaction New.

--------------------

Based on the above it seems like the transaction listed by the OP
should not have been marked a Near Match. The dates were off by less
than 14 days, which in and of itself could make them Near Matches, but
there *were* "additional discrepancies.

Tom Young
From: Bruce. on 17 Feb 2010 16:51
"TomYoung" <sombodee(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:07dc997b-b9fd-4c7e-88ef-4fb81f0cbd19(a)z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> Based on the above it seems like the transaction listed by the OP
> should not have been marked a Near Match. The dates were off by less
> than 14 days, which in and of itself could make them Near Matches, but
> there *were* "additional discrepancies.

I start off with the assumption that the code can do a good job because I
watched Money make only correct matches for about 16 years. On the other
hand, I've already seen bad matches and bad near matches in Quicken in a few
weeks.

One time Money did try to make a match for a transaction about 30 days
older. But that was easily fixed because the number of days was
configurable. I shorted it to less than a month and it never made a bad
match again. I don't know what algorithm it used, only that it worked very
well for me.

It didn't have the concept of a near match.

Bruce.


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