How to disable download for DFS symbol (merged with COF recently)

eshieh

This is on Quicken for Mac.

For some reason, now that DFS (Discover) has merged with COF (Capital One), Quicken continues to download DFS quotes despite the Download only for watchlists, indexes, and securities held option in the Securities window being ticked. It also downloads very bad data with random quotes of $1500 (it should be $160) and $0 littered over its history (both recent and years ago). This causes my net worth over time report and account portfolio graph to be very wrong (lots of spikes and swings of 1M in networth…)

I can manually open the securities window and sort the security history by closing price to delete the bad entries. But then the next time quicken updates my accounts, it re-downloads the bad data, despite it's no longer being a current holding (all shares now in the form of COF shares).

on Mac version 8.2.1

jacobs

Do you have the checkbox at the top of the Securities window checked:

If that box is checked, Quicken will do what it says: download quotes only for securities you currently hold, plus indexes and Watchlist securities. So in this case, the Download Quotes column is hidden, because you are letting Quicken automatically download for those specific securities.

If you uncheck the checkbox, you'll see a dialog box asking you to confirm that you want to manually control which securities to download quotes for:

If you click "Yes, I'll do it", then the Download Quotes column will appear. See if DFS is checked, and if so, uncheck it. That should stop the downloads of DFS price quotes.

If you re-check the main Download quotes checkbox at the top of the Securities window, then uncheck it again, is DFS checked again? If so, it seems to indicate that Quicken thinks you still own shares of DFS. Sometimes this could be if there is a tiny fraction of a share remaining due to rounding with some transaction in the past. Does DFS show up in your current Portfolio, or is it absent? The latter would indicate there are no fractional shares.

cs

You should be able to go to the Securities list (Investing → Security List, or ctrl-y), and in that window turn off "Download Quotes" for DFS (and any others). (You should see a "Download Quotes column with checkboxes, uncheck the ones you don't want.) I do this all the time, it works.

The path might be a bit different on Mac; I apologize for only being able to give you Windows instructions.

Quicken Jasmine

Hello @eshieh,

Thanks for your detailed post — and you're right, this DFS/COF merger has created some messy quote history.

You're also right that even with the "Download quotes only for watchlist and held securities" option enabled, Quicken may still pull in updates unless you manually disable it per security.

The steps for Quicken for Mac are actually quite similar to Windows in this case. Here's how to disable quote downloads for DFS:

1. Go to Window > Securities.
2. Locate DFS in the list.
3. In the Download quotes column, uncheck the box next to DFS.

I hope this helps!

eshieh

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20493969#Comment_20493969

That looks promising. Unfortunately, my version doesn't have any columns past the "Currently Held" column.

I'm using Mac Quicken Classic Deluxe 8.1.2.

jacobs

Do you have the checkbox at the top of the Securities window checked:

If that box is checked, Quicken will do what it says: download quotes only for securities you currently hold, plus indexes and Watchlist securities. So in this case, the Download Quotes column is hidden, because you are letting Quicken automatically download for those specific securities.

If you uncheck the checkbox, you'll see a dialog box asking you to confirm that you want to manually control which securities to download quotes for:

If you click "Yes, I'll do it", then the Download Quotes column will appear. See if DFS is checked, and if so, uncheck it. That should stop the downloads of DFS price quotes.

If you re-check the main Download quotes checkbox at the top of the Securities window, then uncheck it again, is DFS checked again? If so, it seems to indicate that Quicken thinks you still own shares of DFS. Sometimes this could be if there is a tiny fraction of a share remaining due to rounding with some transaction in the past. Does DFS show up in your current Portfolio, or is it absent? The latter would indicate there are no fractional shares.

eshieh

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20494004#Comment_20494004

I see, yes that shows the additional columns! But yes, if I uncheck-check-uncheck the master download box, then it doesn't have the download checkmark for DFS (which matches the absence of a mark in the "Currently Held" column).

Luckily I don't trade very often, so this should be manageable for now. Hopefully this bug (of downloading no-longer-held, non-index historical quotes) can be fixed in the not too distant future.