No, I delete a placeholder for a single stock, then try to enter the related transaction(s) to reconcile the shares for that stock. I should not have to delete all placeholders to reconcile a single stock. I'm trying to balance to each quarterly statement in succession, and have completed probably a dozen quarters before this started. Unfortunately, the financial institution did a horrible history download and each quarter has placeholders that accumulate buys from purchases and buys from dividends for the several funds that I held. I just want QW to stop the automatic stuff that is WRONG.BTW, before this problem began, I could enter the individual transactions, and QW would automatically update the remaining shares in the placeholder. That seemed to work fairly well, and then I would delete the placeholder when it reached zero shares.
It appears to work like this in QWin 2019:When there is a Placeholder in an investing account, Quicken has forced the share balance to match the downloaded data but does not know how much those shares cost or when they were purchased. You are supposed to edit the Placeholder to adjust earlier transactions or add missing ones using the Enter missing Transactions dialog until the "Shares in Placeholder Entry" is zero.If you enter a missing transaction for an affected security that affects the cash balance (Buy, Sell, or Div for example) for a date prior to the Placeholder, Quicken creates a balancing cash adjustment to compensate for it, because it is trying to keep the cash balance constant. Leave this in place until you are done resolving the shares.Once the shares in the Placeholder are down to zero, you can delete the Placeholder and then delete the balancing cash adjustment(s) as well, if you want the cash on the Placeholder date to change to match the transactions you have entered.I find it much easier not to allow Quicken to create the placeholders in the first place.
