make placeholders appear at current end of transactions, and don't automatically create unwanted one
I kept wondering why QMac2017 was reporting a greater valuation for one of my portfolios than online (which doesn't support downloads so everything is manually entered.) When, I found that I had missing a zero in a fraction share transaction (entered 0.36 when I was supposed to enter 0.036) The cost basis was right, but market value was huge...but share prices matched....
So, I edit the transaction, and nothing changes. I don't see any recent transactions that would account for no correction. So, I expand the investment on the Portfolio view, and see there's a transaction at the top wanting me to add missing values. And, adding/entering are the only options for this erroneous entry.
But, entering it and then immediately deleting it didn't do anything....as it immediately re-creates the unwanted placeholder. What makes it think the wrong total holdings that I'm trying to fix is the correct value?
Don't recall what it did with QWin2016, but certainly not this.
I had noticed that when I was entering the placeholder, that it had a well before the existence of my account as its initial date. I opened the account in August 2016. The initial date was for 2001. Why that date, I don't know....it doesn't represent the start of my quicken date (November 1997)...shortly after when I had caved and bought my first Windows PC, and migrated my mix of freeware accounting software (which I found, when trying to decide on what to switch to from QWin2016, was still an active product. I didn't try any of the products I looked at, when I opted this route.)
So, I scrolled down to the other end of my transactions, and there' s the placeholder, which is preceded by 3 other placeholders with a date of one day before I had opened the account.
But those reverse share adjustments that my broker had made to correct rounding errors, there's was no value associated with, just an add of 0.000001 of a share. Can't check if the amounts are right, until February's statement comes out.
As an annoyance their website only shows 2 digit precision on holdings, while they do 6 significant digits...which can lead to transactions with 8 digits after the decimal. They also do 6 significant digits on the reinvestment amount, which quicken rounds off to 2 digits. In QWin2016, I've had to force an extra round up or round down, since its doing the 2 digit round off on a per transaction basis, rather than my whole contribution....
More of a problem when its a small amount spread over many investments, more than a dozen, which is the case with a different account then above, the last few years, I've been largely letting the recommender tool do its recommendation. (it used to be a secret tool, which when meeting with an advisor, they would run.... I got the path during that meeting. A couple of years later the tool became openly available.) Instead of where I pick one investment for a given slice recommendation. The change to a few investments to many came about some time after online quicken updates became possible (before you had to dig deep into the website to find the download item. Which I could never remember where it was each time...) Yet, I still find myself entering the transactions manually, and then comparing with download. Occasionally, I have add a penny to make things work...since Quicken rounds off on a per transaction basis, rather then taking into account the entire transaction.
I don't have the account as part of my one-step, since there's two investments (daily interest) that continually get reported as add shares 0 with the comment of updating balance, but no balance adjustment is done. So, I manually update once in a while, so I don't have to deal with the holdings don't match, what should I do, after every download. Where in QWin2016, I had go through steps to create a placeholder (which has the date of that the download had associated with the value (i.e. I do an update on Sunday, it'll report the date as Friday....though the 'add shares 0' downloaded transaction will have current date.)
So, when I re-setup accounts in QMac2017, I didn't take this account out of 'update all online accounts'...but I noticed I wasn't being hassled out the holdings difference. Well, turns out its go the updates the day before my first entry. (back in 2007)... takes a while to scroll all the way to the other end (maybe I should change my scrollbar behavior...) Though QWin2016 would also for some reason move my transactions position to the beginning after and reconcile, leading to a long scroll to get back to current transactions (but it didn't do anything to that end.) In QWin2016, the current/future transactions are at the bottom (since there's the separate section below for downloaded transactions, reminders[, placeholders]) Which isn't the case with QMac2017 (though it puts the toolbar at the bottom versus across the top as in QWin) It was after the discovery for the first account, that lead me to look at the other end of this other account.) Which might be annoying. As it has been my practice to turn them into a real transaction at the end of the year (providing I remember to go online on New Year's Day....)
I keep meaning to try 'franking' (details were on a site somewhere, but I can't find the bookmark now) to adjust things so reinvested dividends don't change my cost basis, to get the true roi. Hmmm, looking at all my investment accounts, they all have at least one placeholder....including one because Quicken insists on recording a downloaded split from quotes into my accounts, instead of how the broker and reported it my transaction download. The CUR one was complicated by the fact that the split resulted in my fractional shares turning into whole shares (sharebuilder) ... not sure how to fix that one.
