RESOLVED: Changing date in Portfolio View no longer changes "Market Value" as of that date.

MeMyself&I

Moral of the story: Make sure you have the correct prices for everything before you decide there is a problem with the program...

When reconciling investment accounts, I have (for decades now) verified that I entered everything correctly by checking the "Market Value" as of the date on the investment statement. I have found all kinds of entry errors this way over the years. But now, when I change the date in the Portfolio View, I don't see my portfolio as it was on that date - it changes nothing, which means it is as of today's date, or the last time it was updated. Not helpful.

I hope this was a bug introduced in a recent update and not someone's idea of a feature.

jacobs

@MeMyself&I Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I'm not seeing this. Are we talking about the "Data as of" date on the Portfolio screen:



Like you, I use this feature to reconcile my Quicken data versus monthly or quarterly brokerage statements. As soon as I change this date, I see the graph and the table below, including the Market Value total, change immediately. Nothing has changed.

Editing to add: Oh, did you add the "Moral of the story" line above after discovering it was an "operator error" on your part?  So everything is working for you as it should now? 

MeMyself&I

Yes, I forgot that for the College Savings Plan account, Quicken only knows the market price on the statement closing date if I enter it manually. So I was changing to a date with no new price info, which meant the totals didn't change. Definitely user error.