Ghosts of Long Ago Sold Securities Reappear
chipwhite935
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Recently, 2 securities I sold many years ago have reappeared; one with -0.000024 shares and another with +0.000004 shares. I tried repeating the sale for the one with negative shares using "Sell All Lots," but it had no effect. I then ran Validate and Repair with "Validate File" and "Rebuild Lots" checked, but that didn't help either.
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For whatever reason, negative shares require manually adjusting the last Sell transaction to make it exact. Or edit the last Sell reducing the sale by 1 share. Say OK. Then edit again and use the Sell All button. Save.5
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For whatever reason, negative shares require manually adjusting the last Sell transaction to make it exact. Or edit the last Sell reducing the sale by 1 share. Say OK. Then edit again and use the Sell All button. Save.5
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Thank you! :) Your first suggestion: "adjusting the last Sell transaction to make it exact," did the trick for both cases. For example, the one with negative shares showed xxx.000024 shares, I removed the fractional part (.000024) and now it's gone.
It doesn't explain why it happened in the first place; fuzzy math in the software perhaps? It does make me a little concerned about data integrity. Something to keep an eye on, I guess.0 -
They recently opened up shares and pricing to 6 decimal places. Previously unseen incremental shares were no longer rounded out to zero.0
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