Placeholders on the Mac
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Hey Lou!
A placeholder transaction would be located at the bottom of the register and will be slightly grey. If you are unable to locate a placeholder and that add shares transaction is incorrect and should not be there I would save a back up and delete that specific transaction.
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The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.0
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I have done that but nothing shows up so I assume I don't have any placeholder transactions. My problem still remains.Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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Is it possible that it’s a transaction with fractional shares...so small that it shows as a zero value???Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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Yes, it does have fractional shares but I have several other add share transactions that have fractional shares the share balance is reflected. Could it have something to do with that particular line in the register? I say that only because after I deleted the transaction, the same thing occurred to the transaction above the one I deleted. Prior to the deletion, the transaction was OK. Mind boggling.Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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If the fractional shares is something like .000001, you'll see zero shares and zero for the amount.Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
In Quicken Mac, go to the "problem" investment account, click on Portfolio with Portfolio Value selected and scroll down to see the security with the fractional shares. Click on the little arrow to the left of that security and see the date for the lot.
Then go into Transactions and resolve for that date. Most likely a rounding error when a Buy or Sell transaction was downloaded...or an entry to account for fractional shares plus or minus to balance your account.0 -
When I go to the transaction, I can't change it. It is an add shares transaction for .75456 shares. It won't add the shares to the balance. I actually don't even own the security anymore, but in my portfolio is shows a minus share balance. I have been a Quicken user on the PC since the 1990's and just recently switched to Quicken for the Mac. I didn't have this problem on the PC. Thank you everyone for trying to help.Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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I agree. Just delete it.Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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I can delete the transaction but that would make the situation worse, I would have to delete all the transactions related to that security--about 14. It is odd that only one add share transaction among 12 don't add the shares to the balance. Thanks again everyone. I am a numbers type of person and like everything exact. Yikes.Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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Did you check the price of that security for that particular day? Maybe there is an incorrect price (or zero) price entered for that day.Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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So, this is what I did. I deleted the transaction. Then I went to the portfolio. It then showed another transaction with fractional from 2001! I then reentered the transaction I had deleted. On checking the portfolio, the 2001 transaction was no longer listed but the transaction above the one I had deleted now did not add the shares to the balance. I didn't check the price of the security as it goes back to 2005, Also, as I said, everything was fine in Quicken on the PC. I think we are running out of solutions and I may have to live with it, If I could only hide the security, but from what I have read, that is not possible, Thanks again,Lou Anne said:The add share transaction should be there but it is not adding to the share balance--it shows zero, I tried the following: I duplicated that transaction. That worked. Then I deleted the original transaction. Now the transaction that was above the deleted transaction is showing a zero balance and before it wasn't. How weird.
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I am having problems with Quicken Deluxe for Mac and my investment portfolios. I have tried deleting account and reloading it; now I have a portfolio with 100 shares of GLD but no corresponding placeholder to allow me to add cost basis. Consequently, I have no reading on unrealized or realized gain? From discussions, it appears there is something wrong with the way placeholder transactions work in latest version of Quicken?
How do I fix this? Can you import data, or create my own older transactions without messing up the portfolio view?0 -
Alas, no, no "Add Shares" and no transaction that added the quantity, which happened in 2013. I understand Quicken downloads transactions and data from broker, Schwab, but when I download, I do at least get a cost basis for the 100 shares. I would have thought the software would automatically add a placeholder, with the option of putting in an estimate, or average cost basis to help explain the shares in the portfolio. It looks like the latest version of Quicken doesn't do this. I manually added a transaction and it did not double my holdings, so I'm not sure how balances are linked or not linked to transactions.jsely56 said:I am having problems with Quicken Deluxe for Mac and my investment portfolios. I have tried deleting account and reloading it; now I have a portfolio with 100 shares of GLD but no corresponding placeholder to allow me to add cost basis. Consequently, I have no reading on unrealized or realized gain? From discussions, it appears there is something wrong with the way placeholder transactions work in latest version of Quicken?
How do I fix this? Can you import data, or create my own older transactions without messing up the portfolio view?0
