Fidelity IRA account multiple problems with balance, cash, realized gains/loss, add shares
Quicken overestimated my IRA cash balance today by 17942.93. The last time I looked closely at this was 11/8/25, when Quicken was short 407.62 due to cash (a long time problem). Today, Quicken is overestimating cash by 17942.93. Quicken Portfolio tab has the 78,036.16 in FDRXX and the 17,942.93 listed as cash, but that second amount is not in Fidelity
11/8/25 | 2/6/26 | |
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Account total quicken short | 407.64 | |
Fidelity Cash Balance | 17805.09 | 78,036.16 (FDRXX) |
Quicken Cash Balance | 17397.45 | 95979.09 |
Difference | 407.64 | -17942.93 (Cash in Quicken) |
To look for where the extra 17942.93 is coming from, I downloaded the transactions from 11/8-2/7 from Fidelity and imported them into Excel to compare to Quicken. No way to export the transactions directly from my Quicken IRA transaction tab so I created a transaction report for that account and those dates and put in spreadsheet. Then, I found these problems:
2/6/26 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 0 |
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2/4/26 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 5,752.48 |
12/31/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | -2,596.11 |
12/31/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | -3,659.91 |
12/3/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 10,591.06 |
12/3/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 1,595.91 |
12/3/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 5,588.21 |
12/2/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 0 |
12/2/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 0 |
11/24/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 4,564.45 |
11/17/25 | Investments:Realized Gain/Loss | 4,660.66 |
Quicken transaction report has the above Gain/Loss entries that do not appear in the transactions tab or in Fidelity transactions online or the Fidelity download. When I click on these transactions in the transaction report in Quicken, there is no link to any actual transaction in Quicken, unlike the rest of the Quicken transactions.
Then, I found these 3 transactions in Quicken transaction tab and transaction report with 0 in amounts. The correct amounts are in the far right column from Fidelity reports. When I updated the 0s with the correct amounts and share prices from fidelity, no changes in Quicken market value occurred.
12/5/25 | Fidelity IRA Investments:Add Shares | $0.00 |
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12/5/25 | Fidelity IRA Investments:Add Shares | $0.00 |
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12/5/25 | Fidelity IRA Investments:Add Shares | $0.00 |
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All of the other amounts in the portfolio from both Fidelity and Quicken match. I can't figure out where the extra cash is coming from in Quicken, nor do I understand why these gain/loss transactions are not in Fidelity, or why the add shares transactions are 0 in Quicken but reported correctly in Fidelity.
I have Quicken mac 8.4.2 Premier, if that matters.
I would appreciate any help in fixing this or understanding where the extra cash is coming from in Quicken.
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Hello @daverph,
Thank you for letting us know you're seeing this issue. To help troubleshoot, please provide more information:
- You mentioned that the cash balance being off has been a long-term issue. Do you remember when that issue first started? Was it always off by that same amount (until yesterday)?
- Have you disconnected and reconnected your Fidelity account for any reason between 8 Nov 25 and 7 Feb 26?
- If you have, please check to see if any placeholders were added, since that may be the cause of the issue. For information on placeholders, please click here.
- Was your file ever converted from a Windows file or an older (pre-subscription) version of Quicken for Mac?
I look forward to your reply!
Quicken Kristina
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1 - I don't know when it started, I started to try and find out where the imbalance was coming from back on 9/23/25. Today the cash amounts are in balance, but now the total amount of the ira is off by $-230,642.06 in quicken.
When I look at portfolio holdings in both quicken and fidelity 2 ETFs are showing losses in quicken today that aren't in fidelity: XLK -37,588.80 and XLY -20,988.72
Recent transactions in quicken that don't show in Fidelity
Quicken transactions
fidelity transactions
Hope you can make sense of this but I can't. How can the quicken transactions show as CLR when they aren't in fidelity?
2 - No haven't disconnected, never used placeholders
3 - This IRA was created after I started to use the subscription version, but I have used quicken for mac since version 1. When I brought the file into the subscription version accounts were mostly balanced, never had discrepancies like I have going on now.
Thanks for your help!
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Thank you for your reply,
Typically, for a transaction to show as cleared in Quicken, it would either need to download from the financial institution, or you would need to manually mark it as cleared. Did these transactions appear after you updated your accounts? Are these transactions the reason your account value is so far off?
Thank you!
Quicken Kristina
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As of today, quicken shows my cash balance in the IRA as -231237.93. There were 4 cleared transactions in Quicken for BUY FDRXX totaling 244,357.51 were not in Fidelity, two dated 2/5, 1 dated 2/6, and 1 dated 2/9. I never cleared any transactions manually. These transactions appeared after syncing if that's what you mean by updating my accounts.
I went into those quicken transactions and zeroed the amounts and shares. I looked back into January's quicken transactions and found 4 more BUY FDRXX totaling 4823.35 that were not in fidelity and zeroed them out as well. Now the total IRA balance is short in quicken by 428.90, and the cash portion of the portfolio in quicken is 407.64 less than what shows in fidelity FDRXX, which is where it was back in November. It would be nice if it everything balanced but there are only so many hours in a day.
How is this happening, and will this ever be fixed?
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I find I regularly have to enter Adjustment transactions in my investment accounts (Fidelity and T. Rowe Price) in Quicken to reconcile the cash balance. This is an area that Quicken can and should spend some quality assurance testing and development on. Quicken could be a really useful tool for tracking investments, but it lags behind other tools (e.g., Empower) due to these download issues.
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Thank you for your replies,
Is FDRXX your core fund? Is it tracked as cash or as a security in Quicken? You mentioned that the transactions appeared after syncing. Did they show as cleared transactions downloaded from the financial institution, or were they marked with the orange/red pencil icon (which represents a manually entered transaction, or a transaction created automatically by Quicken)?
Thank you!
Quicken Kristina
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My FDRXX fund is also no longer posting and on Quicken
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FYI, my Fidelity accounts appear to be behaving as expected - same as before the change in connection method last year. I have three scenarios… (1) For an account set up to do the cash sweep to FDRXX, FDRXX shows as cash in the Quicken account register. In Fidelity, in the Positions view, it shows as FDRXX while under Activity & Orders it shows the cash balance as zero. (2) In another account that is not set up to sweep to FDRXX, the positions view does not include any FDRXX holdings - in this case, the cash is swept into FCASH (rather than in FDRXX). The Quicken transaction register shows the cash value as the amount held as FCASH in Fidelity. (3) Another account has FDRXX listed as a position (bought as an actual investment) but the sweeps are to FCASH. In Quicken, the register cash balance is the sum of the value of FDRXX and FCASH. Sorry if it sounds confusing. In summary, the behavior in Quicken is now just as I like it. No manual transactions need to be entered to allow for the reconcile to be successful. All is good here. Note, I did have to recheck/correct some transactions after the download behavior changed (on Feb 11, if I remember correctly). Downloads have been good since then.
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My Fidelity IRA accounts (not my 529 or savings, just the IRA/Brokerage accounts) suddenly started showing wildly low balances that were way off tonight. The Fidelity site and app are accurate so I know my funds are still there, but Quicken changed all the amounts when I updated all the accounts tonight. I haven't changed any settings and my version of Quicken was updated when the last update came out and it was all working fine until tonight. Anyone else having Fidelity Brokerage issues with Quicken?
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I checked my Fidelity accounts (both tax deferred and taxable) and they are all right on the money (except the HSA which is off by 1 cent).
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Thank you for your replies,
There is currently a known issue with Fidelity information either not downloading or downloading incorrectly. For more information, please see this Community Alert:
Per the alert, if you are encountering any issues with your Fidelity account(s), please contact Quicken Support directly for assistance. The Quicken Support phone number can be found through this link here. Phone support is available from 5:00 am PT to 5:00 pm PT, Monday through Friday.
I apologize that I could not be of more assistance!
Quicken Kristina
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