Remove Security From Portfolio View

julio.bouza

I have a security that I am no longer investing. It has no cash balance nor shares. I was able to remove it from the view on the left hand side Accounts list. But I can't figure out how to remove it from the portfolio view which is messing up my totals and summaries across all my securities. As a work around, I changed the classification to Other so that is has a different summary but I really would like to remove it from the view. Any ideas?

jacobs

@julio.bouza I'm still confused.

In your first post, you said the security has "no cash balance nor shares." But just above, you wrote "Portfolio stills shows it has shares and Market Value."

If the Portfolio is showing shares and value, then I would think the security exists in some account. I would start by temporarily unhiding all your accounts, just to make sure that isn't confusing something. Then confirm that when you view your Portfolio Group by Security, this security shows up with a value. Next, change your Portfolio view to Group by Account, and click all the triangles to the left of each account name to show the underlying securities. I believe you will find this security in one (or more) Accounts. When you do, can you go to that Account, note the number of shares it shows, switch to transaction mode, and enter a transaction to Remove Shares for the number of shares that Quicken believes you have. (You can back date the transaction to the end of last year if you don't want the security visible in any reports from this year.) After doing that, if you flip back to Portfolio view for this Account, you security should be gone from the list of securities for this account -- is it? If not, what is it showing for share count and value?

jacobs

I'm a little confused by why, if it has no shares and no value, it is messing up your totals. Where are the totals messed up?

If the security is showing in the Portfolio view, what it is showing for Shares and Market Value? Normally, if you sell/remove value of  a security completely, it simply disappears from the Portfolio view. 

I created a test security and bought .000001 share at $.01 dated yesterday. Today, I entered a sale for the same. If I set Portfolio dates as of yesterday, I see the test security with it's .000001 share and .01 value; if I change the Portfolio View to today, the line simply disappears from the list of my holdings.

Also: what did you make disappear from the left sidebar, and how? The sidebar shows accounts, not securities. If this by any chance a single mutual fund account imported from Quicken Windows? 

Or is this an account that does have value, and you simply hid the account? If you unhide the account, what is the value in the sidebar? The key to making it disappear will be removing shares so it has $0 value, not hiding the account. 

Please provide some additional information in answer to these questions, and we should be able to get to the bottom of it.

julio.bouza

I am as confused as you are ROFL.

This is for a single account. The account had shares. Early July I added a Sell Type transaction for all shares which decreased the Shares and increased the Cash balance against the account. Then I created a Payment/Deposit type to move the Cash balance to another account. The account itself shows zero shares and zero cash balance. I then hid the account from sidebar and all is well there. Except that the the Portfolio stills shows it has shares and Market Value. Not sure 100% or what I am missing

jacobs

@julio.bouza I'm still confused.

In your first post, you said the security has "no cash balance nor shares." But just above, you wrote "Portfolio stills shows it has shares and Market Value."

If the Portfolio is showing shares and value, then I would think the security exists in some account. I would start by temporarily unhiding all your accounts, just to make sure that isn't confusing something. Then confirm that when you view your Portfolio Group by Security, this security shows up with a value. Next, change your Portfolio view to Group by Account, and click all the triangles to the left of each account name to show the underlying securities. I believe you will find this security in one (or more) Accounts. When you do, can you go to that Account, note the number of shares it shows, switch to transaction mode, and enter a transaction to Remove Shares for the number of shares that Quicken believes you have. (You can back date the transaction to the end of last year if you don't want the security visible in any reports from this year.) After doing that, if you flip back to Portfolio view for this Account, you security should be gone from the list of securities for this account -- is it? If not, what is it showing for share count and value?