Preventing CD and Bond Price Updates

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I am using Quicken 2017.  I do not want the price of my CD's and bonds to be changed from par value of $100.  I hold them to maturity, so current market price is irrelevant.  I have unchecked Download Quotes in the Security list for every CD and bond, but still the prices get updated.  I have unmatched them in Security Details and edited the price history back to $100, but the next time One Step Update runs, they are matched again and the prices updated once again.  My next idea would be to change the names so that they can no longer be matched, but that seems to be a lot of work to cure what unchecking Download Quotes should do in the first place.  Anyone have a better idea?

volvogirl

If you don't want the value to change (except for posted interest) you could set them up as a regular savings account or there might be a CD type.  Or to not download quotes then delete the ticker symbol on it.  

splasher

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Jim_Harman

If you want to keep the price fixed at $100, note that you don't have to don't have to edit the intermediate prices, just select the first price after $100, shift-click the last price to select them all,  and hit Delete. Quicken will use the most recent price in the price history for market value, net worth, performance, etc.

q_lurker

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Jim Harman said:

If you want to keep the price fixed at $100, note that you don't have to don't have to edit the intermediate prices, just select the first price after $100, shift-click the last price to select them all,  and hit Delete. Quicken will use the most recent price in the price history for market value, net worth, performance, etc.

True.  But there's really no reason to do that since only the most recent price is used to show account value and any way, the next day the price will be updated again to something else.  The issue is how to prevent that updating.

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Jim Harman said:

If you want to keep the price fixed at $100, note that you don't have to don't have to edit the intermediate prices, just select the first price after $100, shift-click the last price to select them all,  and hit Delete. Quicken will use the most recent price in the price history for market value, net worth, performance, etc.

The only way I know to prevent it updating every day would be to not download that account every day, i.e. un-check the financial institution  in One-step update.

I have a security (TIAA Traditional) that would download its income every day if I let it. To avoid this, I leave TIAA un-checked except for the first time I download each month.

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