Returns-Year to Date

q_lurker

The only issue is that Returns Year to Date are useless since Treasuries and CD's have no price history.

For Returns YTD, you only need current prices and 12/31/24 prices. Those 12/31/24 prices should not be too difficult to fill in manually from your year-end statements.

EDIT - PS, Return-YTD % is a different parameter downloaded and not available for you’d CDs or treasuries.

Jim_Harman

Well I hope you have learned some lessons. It sounds like you are protected against computer failure but not undetected software problems or your own mistakes unless you realize it the same day.

Given that you can buy 1 TB of storage for well under $100 these days, I see no reason to aggressively delete backups or empty your recycle bins. My Quicken file is about 200 MB so I could store about 5,000 backups on a 1 TB drive.

Gary R

Jim—-I even pay for the automatic Quicken Backup. Every time I close Quicken, it automatically backs up to the cloud. I always just keep the last one and delete the rest. Unfortunately, I deleted the last backup after the agent fixed my issue. As far as the recycle bin, I always empty it out daily.

q-lurker—-I have way too many individual bonds, CD's, and Treasuries to record 12/31/24 prices.

I'll just live with my mistakes

Jim_Harman

For Returns YTD, in addition to the 12/31 and current prices, you would need the prices for any transactions this year that affect your share count - Buy, Sell, Reinvest, etc. Rebuilding the price history should have supplied those entries for you.

The problem you described that led to all this involved a money market fund. Quicken's Help says that it does not download prices for money market funds, but I have had occasions when Quicken downloaded a share price of zero for these funds. Because the share price of these funds is always $1.00, I recommend that you un-check the Download Quotes box in the Security List for all of your money market funds.

Gary R

Jim—Quicken actually reports Vanguard money market VMFXX correctly. When I go to my Tools—On line Balances—VMFXX is correctly reported with the correct share amounts.

Fidelity does not report money market accounts in Quicken. I have several money market accounts with Fidelity and just leave them as "cash" in Quicken.

Jim_Harman

Gary - Perhaps I should not have muddied the waters by noting that SOMETIMES I have seen a zero share price downloaded for money market funds.

Did you ever figure out why you could not enter a Sell of your money market fund with an error message that you had no shares to sell?

Gary R

Jim—-Quicken support fixed the issue after they did the screen share. We were able to record the shares sold and worked perfectly. Honestly, I was so happy with the agent, I give him all 10's when I received the email.