Allow Hidden Securities to Be Excluded from Security Comparison Mismatch

J92130
J92130 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭
edited August 19 in Investments

[I'm using Windows Class Premier vR64.19 - Build 27.1.64.19]

Problem:
Fidelity (and some other brokerages) report settlement funds (e.g., Fidelity Government Cash Reserves) as securities with “shares,” while Quicken users often prefer to track them simply as Cash.

If you hide the settlement fund in Quicken’s Security List (so that Holdings and reports show “Cash” instead of shares), Quicken still includes it in the Securities Comparison Mismatch check during updates. The result is an empty mismatch dialog after every download, even though nothing is actually out of sync for the user’s tracked securities.

Workarounds today:

  • Turning off portfolio mismatch checking entirely (not acceptable, since users lose the warning for real stocks/funds).
  • Tracking the settlement fund as a security (eliminates the warning, but then Cash disappears and requires ongoing reinvestment maintenance).
  • Hiding the security (cleaner view, but the mismatch dialog still appears empty after every download).

Requested Feature:
Add an option to exclude hidden securities from the portfolio mismatch comparison.

  • Users could still get mismatch warnings for actual tracked securities (stocks, ETFs, mutual funds).
  • Settlement funds or other intentionally hidden items would no longer trigger false alarms.
  • ALTERNATIVE: Don't trigger the "Portfolio Mismatch Comparison" window if the only mismatch is a hidden security. In other words, still include the hidden security in the mismatch checking (same as today) but don't trigger the alert window.

Benefits:

  • Fidelity users (and others with similar settlement-fund setups) avoid a meaningless “empty mismatch” popup.
  • Users still retain the important safeguard of mismatch warnings for their real securities.
  • Clean, intuitive, and consistent with the purpose of “Hide Security.”

Quicken user since 1996.

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