Is there no end to this?
Hello @Toolworker,
Thank you for letting us know you're seeing this issue with FCASH. Based on your description, it sounds like FCASH is showing as a security in Quicken. Are you able to adjust the cash representation options in the problem account(s) to tell Quicken to track as cash?
To adjust cash representation settings, navigate to Tools>Account List, then click Edit next to the problem account. Choose the Online Services tab, then click the Set/Edit button near the lower left.
Please let me know how it goes!
Thanks, @Quicken Kristina . No, the accounts are set up right. But there was something funny, and I tried to fix it. Have to wait to see if it worked.
All three accounts are set to use FCASH.
And the options for customizing are:
But: In the Security List there are two funds with the FCASH symbol:
Could that be confusing things? And where'd that CUSIP come from? A lookup site shows:
FIDELITY CASH had only one IntInc transaction, on 9/30/25. All the other IntInc transactions have been from CASH. Since Fidelity isn't sending FIDELITY CASH transactions except maybe that one, I changed that one transaction to CASH and deleted the FIDELITY CASH security.
Now the security list has only one FCASH and the weird CUSIP is gone:
Hopefully an improvement.
Now - two of the three accounts using CASH show FCASH as the core cash fund, and the Customize option shows FCASH as one of the MMF options.
But - the third no longer shows any core fund and the Customize option shows the other MMFs in the account as options but not FCASH. This third account does promise to let me choose a fund on the next download, and FCASH is one of the options, and there is that bogus CASH position in that (and the other two) accounts,
Nevertheless I did a download and did not get asked for a core MMF.
We'll see what happens at the end of the month when all three accounts receive an IntInc transaction in CASH. Will the bogus CUSIP reappear? Will the third account ask for a core fund? Will FCASH be an option? Stay tuned.
Very weird. Life in the FiQuser Triangle (the Bermuda Triangle for Fidelity Quicken users).
Oh - The third account has a zero cash position. The other two do have cash. Their list of positions includes
The third account doesn't. So the next time a dividend drops into that account, maybe it'll let me specify FCASH.
Thank you for the follow-up,
We haven't heard back from you in a while. Do you still need assistance?
Check back and let us know!
Thanks for checking back, @Quicken Kristina . I hadn't done a lot of updating since the last post, but I just did one.
The good news is that the update did ask about the account that hadn't linked to FCASH for cash balance.
But things are still confusing. I did an update, and the accounts using FCASH, that were fine before, changed the cash transactions to "Unidentified Security":
And ditto the dividends on FCASH:
So trying to duplicate, I backed out to a qdata from a week ago, updated - and everything was fine:
It did insert these placeholder entries, but it doesn't seem to matter whether I leave them or delete them.
So - I've got two different results from the same update. I don't have time to chase this further - will just continue on with the qdata that's working. And will report any further glitches.
I'm glad to hear you were able to get it working. It is odd that the first attempt gave you an Unidentified Security. It may have been an issue specific to that file or a one-time glitch.
Please let us know if you encounter any further issues!
I tried several times to repeat and did not see the error. Likely it was a one-time glitch in Fidelity's transmissions.
The placeholder entries keep coming. Harmless but annoying.
