DELETE ALL FROM PLACEHOLDER ENTRIES SCREEN DOES NOTHING

Question

My financial institution created a new brokerage account for me and when I downloaded transactions for the first time, wound up with 34 placeholder entries.  Before noting they were there I transferred all my securities from the old account.  Now I'm on the placeholder entries page and when I click DELETE ALL, I get a warning box, I reply OK, then nothing happens. See the attachment for screen shots.

NotACPA · Answer

You need to resolve each placeholder before you can delete them.  Merely deleting them will result in them being re-created.IF, perhaps, several are for the same security, you can create a single transaction to resolve multiple placeholders at once.