Adjust Share Balance Transaction is "invisible"

operaflute

I need to adjust some share balances (basically trying to zero out an old account), and while it seems to be effected (value is now at $0), the transactions I entered are "invisible." They are not shown in the register/list of transactions. How can I see what I just did???

NotACPA

EDIT, Preferences, Investment Transactions, and then check "Show Hidden transactions"

NotACPA

EDIT, Preferences, Investment Transactions, and then check "Show Hidden transactions"

operaflute

Thank you! (But why on earth would you want to hide transactions?)

Jim_Harman

I agree, I think transactions should be un-hidden by default

NotACPA

I surrender, why DID you hide those transactions ... because, by default, only "Placeholder Transactions" are hidden.

operaflute

I did not purposefully hide any transactions.

Jim_Harman

@NotACPA, 

Since Adjust Share Balance is just a manually entered Placeholder, it is hidden along with the placeholders if Show hidden transactions is not checked.

Also I think you will find in QWin 2019 and other recent versions, if Show hidden transactions is not checked (the default) and you have a placeholder and you enter a transaction for that security for a date earlier than the placeholder that would affect the cash balance (Buy, Sell, etc), Quicken will insert a linked and hidden Cash balance adjustment.

These are revealed along with the placeholders when you check the Show hidden transactions box. Unlike the placeholders, they do not have a gray background, making them hard to spot when you try to clean things up.