Why is Amount Invested incorrect on Portfolio View

Question

Windows 10 Enterprise - Quicken Version R58.9

I purchased a stock (ADBE) at three different times several years ago.  I have never sold the stock and it does not pay a dividend. When I go to the Investing Tab → Portfolio view everything looks correct for the stock except the Amount Invested is significantly higher than it should be.

To try and see what is going on, I sorted my register by security to verify there were only three transactions.  This is what that looks like.

The portfolio view looks like this:

Everything looks correct here except the amount invested is way off.  This results in a negative ROI which is clearly not the case.

What could be causing this?

q_lurker · Answer

When you set that other starting date, the premise is that you started with the 12/31/23 value as Amount Invested.

rbhsv · Answer

I think I stumbled on the solution to this.  In the portfolio view if I select Options → Portfolio preferences and then select show return calculations from: earliest available date, everything looks correct.  It was previously set to January 1, 2024.  Not sure why this affects the Amount Invested, but it appears that it does.