401k balance

Question

I'm hoping this is something simple and I'm missing something obvious.

In my 401k (TransAmerica, if it makes a difference), the cash balance is usually $0.  Contributions are made from my paycheck and then immediately invested.  A few weeks ago, there were some administraive charges, so they automatically sold some things to cover these chanrges.  But for some reason, it made my balance negative instead of posivite.  Not sure what's going on.

For example, they sold $5 worth of securities and I expected to then have a $5 balance, and my intent was to the create a transaction of $5 towards Fees, to bring the balance back to $0.  But instead, selling $5 worh of servies results in a -$5 balance.  Am I looking at this incorrectly?

Here is the $5 transaction, which looks fine and should have resulted in $5 being added to the accounts cash balance

q_lurker · Answer

Other than corruption and validation, I don't have an explanation for the negative amount on the sale. Everything else about the transaction entry you show looks correct.

If you enter some larger sale amount, same issue?

Are these sales you downloaded?  If so you might re-create one manually.  Same result?

NotACPA · Answer

OK What happens if you, FIRST take a backup, then delete that $5 transaction and re-input it manually?

IF that works, I'd be inclined to delete the others and edit the $5 transaction to make it the sale of all those tiny pieces

PeterK · Answer

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20356733#Comment_20356733

Yes, that's sort of what this is.  But I don't understand why the sale, which could have added cash to the account, instead resulted in a negative balance