Track spot price of gold & silver precious metals automatically in QMac

QMac User

Many people own precious metals and having an asset account type (because precious metals are physical assets) that automatically tracks the spot price of precious metals and reports an up to date overall value at all times would be very helpful.

MikeS 18

Yes! I wish more people would speak up about this. Doesn't seem that it should be that hard - just a matter of priorities for Quicken development. All other proxies for spot price don't track accurately. Please upvote!

tderosa

I find it puzzling that Quicken has not yet provided this feature. In Yahoo!, I can get spot prices by using symbols "GC=F" for Gold and "SI=F" for Silver. If Yahoo! can do this, I would think Quicken could do something similar.

KLB85

Yes, tracking precious metals spot prices should be added to Quicken. My question is for Quicken, is this being looked at or considered?

If yes when?

If no why not?

Jon

@KLB85 If the status in the top post in this thread changes from "Active" to "Under Consideration" then you'll know they're thinking about it, and if it changes to "Planned" then you'll know they're going to do it at some point, but they won't say when. (And if it changes to "Not Planned" then they've decided to not do it.) That's the only answer you'll get to those questions.

A feature request that only has 6 votes is unlikely to get acted on in any way.

Gman34798

Is this service enabled in Q Mac? I'm running Version 7.5.2 (Build 705.51955.100) on macOS 13.6.3. I can enter ^XAGUSD but nothing appears to update.

schwane

Still need this enhancement to be added to the Mac version. Not added as of 4/21/2024.

Sharpie24

Yep, this is odd that there's not just a general way to get the spot price of heavy metals. Here's another vote for this functionality.

kennychan

+1 please add to MacOS Quicken

Gman34798

The fact that this is available in QWin and not QMac is utterly ridiculous…..please add this basic functionality for god's sake!

Quicken Anja

Hello All,

The status of this Idea has been changed to Under Consideration as it has reached enough votes and has been submitted to our Product and Development team for further review.

Thank you!

Fmaner

I would like to see this added as well. Thanks.

Dawi Rik

I would like to see this added as well. Thanks. Any Update on how much longer before added to QMac?

Golf Hack

I would like to see this added as well. Thanks.

jacobs

Anyone who has commented you'd like to see this functionality added to Quicken Mac, please make sure to add your vote at the top of the page. (In the yellow box under the first post, click the black up arrow to add your vote; if the arrow is gray, you've already voted, and clicking it will remove your vote.) A higher vote total can help influence how the developers prioritize different feature requests.

@Dawi Rik This feature request just recently received enough votes to be forwarded to the developers for consideration. They evaluate the feasibility and what it would take to implement. (In this case, it might require paying more to their quotes supplier if the package they pay for doesn't include precious metals, or possibly a different quotes supplier if their current vendor does not provide tracking of precious metals.) If they deem it worthwhile and do-able, the next issue is when there will be time to implement the changes on their development schedule. As you're doubtless aware, there are many feature requests competing for their time, so even if it's only a small amount of work, it may sit in the queue for a long time until they get to it. Once they agree to implement a feature request and have a time for it on their calendar, the status will be changed to "Planned". And then the waiting continues until that slot on the development calendar rolls around.

Other than changing the status from "Under Consideration" to "Planned", there are never any updates from Quicken about when a new feature is expected, because their schedule frequently gets shuffled for a variety of reasons.