T-bill purchase creates a day gain in the Investing screen.
I purchased a T-bill yesterday, 9-7. Didn't record it because I prefer to download the bond information from Vanguard. This morning the purchase dated yesterday was downloaded from Vanguard. Now there is a day gain of the purchase amount in the Investing screen.
I deleted the downloaded transaction and re-entered it. I didn't delete the downloaded T-bill information, though. I used it in the re-entered transaction. (Hope that makes sense.) The day gain remains.
Would appreciate any thoughts.
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Enter a price for the day before you purchased it. Quicken takes the difference in price times the number of shares to get the day gain/loss. It's not really the best way to get the day gain/loss but that's what they do. Entering the price for the day before makes it work.
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This is a known issue. When you purchase a bond like this that has no ticker symbol Quicken can't download the security's historic prices, (the previous 5 years I think) so simple math (value of bond today - 0) creates that day gain. You can edit the security's price history to create a "yesterday" price that's the same as your purchase price I'd guess to make that day gain $0.
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Enter a price for the day before you purchased it. Quicken takes the difference in price times the number of shares to get the day gain/loss. It's not really the best way to get the day gain/loss but that's what they do. Entering the price for the day before makes it work.
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This is a known issue. When you purchase a bond like this that has no ticker symbol Quicken can't download the security's historic prices, (the previous 5 years I think) so simple math (value of bond today - 0) creates that day gain. You can edit the security's price history to create a "yesterday" price that's the same as your purchase price I'd guess to make that day gain $0.
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Thanks Tom & bmclance. I've done that before! 😵 Appreciate the reminder. 😆
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