How to set sweep SWGXX MM Fund as the Cash for Schwab investment account?

mikek753b · January 17

hello,

I'd like to know my Cash funds in my Schwab brokerage investment account.

I have auto sweep cash into SWGXX and back for any BUY, Transfers, ACH, etc

My Quicken Premier R65.29 downloads BUY and SALE for the SWGXX, as result my cash is $0.00, so I don't know what are available and I can't see it in the Projected Balances, as its very important for me. I use this brokerage account as my Checking account to pay bills and credit cards via ACH.

Manual delete each SWGXX transaction is tedious, so I want to have proper way to tread this as Cash.

No matter, what I tried I can't set the SWGXX as Cash for this account.

the SWGXX is NOT in the list to select MM for the Cash, while there is another MM SNSXX that I use for mid term money.

How to set sweep SWGXX MM Fund as the Cash for Schwab investment account?

Tom Young · January 19

Quicken hasn't been very good about explaining the whole "Money Market Fund presented as cash" change that occurred with the switch from Direct Connect to EWC+.

I've had to "reauthorize" downloading from Schwab a time or two and have been asked as part of the process how I want my non-sweep MMF to be presented, so maybe that'll work for you too.

I'd Deactivate ALL Schwab Accounts from downloading, and as you do so delete the Financial institution and Account Number on the General tab.

Then start the ADD ACCOUNT process. Specify Schwab as the FI and provide your User ID and Password. Quicken should find all accounts and Schwab under that combination, at which point you carefully LINK each Schwab account with the correct Quicken Account. You should be asked about how you want SWGXX handled in the Quicken Account.

Boatnmaniac · 7:22AM

@mikek753b - It appears you rejected @Tom Young's reply without providing a reason as to why you rejected it. That makes it very difficult for anyone else to know how to respond to your question and generally will cause a much reduced response activity or sometimes even no more responses being provided.

Do you currently hold any shares of SWGXX? You will not be given the option to select it for this unless you are currently holding shares of it. If you do not currently hold any shares of it you might was to consider buying some SWGXX shares. Once that buy transaction downloads into Quicken then trying to set SWGXX to be treated as Cash.

mikek753b · 10:52AM

thanks for your replies

No, reset account didn't help, reauthorize didn't prompt me for sweep MM.

I don't see SWGXX in the list , so I can't select it. I have no any options to select SWGXX.

yes, I had Div transaction for the SWGXX.

I removed all SWGXX transactions and removed this Security from my Quicken list, I'll wait for new schwab transaction with it, I hope I'll get the prompt about how to treat that.

Tom Young · 3:17PM

I wouldn't think you'd want to remove all historical transactions for SWGXX as that would affect your history and net worth.

Did you really follow the Add Account process I laid out? I've had to do that more than a few times with Schwab and have always been asked that question if my account had any of the Schwab (traded) money market funds in it, and was asked on an account by account basis.

Boatnmaniac · 3:32PM

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20533463#Comment_20533463

You removed the SWGXX security from your Security List? That could well be the primary reason why you are not getting the SWGXX option. How would Quicken know to give you the SWGXX option when SWGXX is not included in your Security List? I suggest you add that security back into your Security List.

Then run OSU and when done go to Account Register > upper right Gear icon > Reconcile Shares. You will get a pop up telling you how your holdings in Quicken compare to what Schwab is reporting. Let me know what that pop up says.

How to set sweep SWGXX MM Fund as the Cash for Schwab investment account?

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