@StrawmanI think this might be a glitch. @neke86_ added a valuation for QIP recently, however it doesn’t appear in the list of reports for QIP. I can find it by clicking on neke86’s profile in the consensus under QIP, but not on the report list. The valuation appears as the green dot on the chart. Can you replicate this issue on your device?

We FINALLY got a response from S&P in regard to why the pricing data for some ETFs are not available.

To quote:

Hi Andrew,

Hope you're well. Thank you for your patience while we were working with our internal data team.

Please find below the response from our data team and let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this.

ASX: GOLD - The instrument type of this listing is a Structured/Hybrid product, a physically backed ETC, as per prospectus and we do not have coverage of pricing data for structured products from the vendor. So, no pricing data is available for this listing.

OTCPK: EAUS.F – as per the vendor the security type of this listing is Exchange Traded Commodity as per source.

So, an ETC (Exchange Traded Commodity) instead of an ETF. The vendor does not have an ETC coding yet for the data field ‘North American Minor Type’, for the CUSIP Q3635T113 of this listing, that's why this is tagged as ETF.

In a normal scenario, the security is the same across the listings, but our vendor is reflecting OTCPK as ETF and ASX as structured/Hybrid security. The vendor has a database limitation at their end due to which they are considering these two listings differently and this is pending future Development work from the vendor.

This is, of course, ridiculous. Essentially blaming semantics for not providing pricing data for certain ETFs.

Frankly, I'm fed up with S&P. We pay a lot of money for end of day price data and ASX licensing, and the standard of service is very poor -- it took over a week just for them to confirm they dont provide this data!)

Sometimes prices don't come through, delisting and other corporate actions take a long time to filter through, and a variety of specific data points often just disappear. Having tried to escalate complaints in the past, i was once told by a senior manager that we'd probably be better off sourcing our data elsewhere!! (we're just too small for them to give a damn -- but not too small for them to charge us subscription fees..)

Anyway, this isn't something members should have to worry about, but I wanted to share in the spirit of transparency and also to see whether anyone had any suggestions for alternate data providers. One thing to keep in mind is that changing out the backend integration is very fiddly and costly -- we've previously moved from Morningstar as they were also hopeless. So sometimes it's better the devil you know. Any alternative needs to not only provide pricing, but also dividend data (ex-dates and values), indices (eg ASX S&P300), corporate actions (eg de-listings, mergers, share splits/consolidations etc). There's loads of people that provide prices -- it's these other things that make it tricky...

But if anyone knows of a good source of data, please DM me!

Seeing there is a glitch thread - I can't seem to buy any GOLD ETF.......

Hi @Strawman I am showing a cash balance of over $300,000

I've undertaken some portfolio management lately, but i can assure you i'm not that good of an Investor.

Unsure if anyone else has experienced any issues today.