Reconcile Share Balances - dropping transactions
I have an issue with one of my investment accounts (with Fidelity) where transactions from about a month earlier are dropping and causing my Quicken balance to be different than Fidelity's amount. I'll manually add the records and next time i sync, i have same issue (not sure if it's the same transactions). I don't have this issue with any of my other accounts (Fidelity or other institutions). do i need to recreate the account? i've tried deactivating and reactivating, but something is definitely abnormal about this account in Quicken. tia
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Are there any placeholder transactions in your data file?
About Placeholders (Quicken Windows)
"N/A" in certain fields of an investment transaction indicates that you have Placeholder transactions in your account that need to be deleted and replaced with the correct Buy / Sell / etc. transaction that should have been recorded here.
For more about Placeholders please go into Quicken Help (press the F1 key from anywhere in Quicken) and perform a Contents search for "placeholder".
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thank you, yes, i've deleted all placeholder transactions as i thought that might be interfering with the holdings. I've been a quicken user for many years and never run into this issue.
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Just deleting placeholder transactions and hoping for the problem to magically resolve itself is not going to work. You need to figure what real Buy / Sell / Dividend / Split / etc. transaction is missing and manually enter it.
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I did enter the transactions manually, and share reconciliation was clear. but after next update, more transactions are missing. very strange behavior
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I figured out the issue. Quicken was reading new transactions as "Near Match", rather than "New", and I didn't catch that before accepting, so the new (or old) transaction was being ignored/updated. I have to go through each transaction and select Unmatch before accepting. Not sure why this started happening recently, as my activity hasn't changed very much.
thanks for all who responded.
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