John Pollard said
> "JohnSmith" wrote
>
> When I download transactions from the Fidelity/Corporate 401K
> account, with Quicken 2009 Premier, it seems to get confused about my
> *ONE* (as in single) S&P index fund.
>
> This is the number of shares reported on Fidelity
> SSGA S&P 500 INDEX, 5670.618
>
> This is the cumulative shares reported in Quicken
> SSGA S&P 500 INDEX 5253.518
> SSGA S&P 500 INDEX 1 52.752
> SSGA S&P 500 INDEX 2 20.403
> SSGA S&P 500 INDEX 3 5670.618
>
> The INDEX 3, is what I think came down today, why the others don't
> total the same number of shared is very odd?
>
> Each time I download, it wants me to create placeholders for shares
> in order to "make the number of shares match between my FI and
> Quicken" (or something like that).
>
> I think this issue might have started when I tried to get smart and
> edit the asset class mixture for this S%P fund, in an attempt to
> better evaluate my stock/bond/cash balance across all investments.
>
> In any event, this makes my market value appears ~2X the actual since
> the shares reported in Quicken are ~2x the actual.
>
> How can I make this go away? I'm way over my head here. ;-)
>
> I'm thinking of trashing the entire account and forcing a completely
> new download - but this would trash years of cost-basis, etc;
> although I not really sure if I care.
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you don't care, I'm not sure what value my response will have. But
> ...
>
> It's not clear just what events happened to produce the results you
> report. So the process to fix the problem may be a bit problematic.
>
> It appears that your financial institution may have downloaded
> transactions for the same security with different security names,
> over time. Or you manually entered transactions for a downloaded
> security using a different security name.
>
> That would not be a problem, if you had told Quicken that downloaded
> Name2 was the same as Name1 when Name2 first appeared. But if you
> allowed Quicken to create a new security for Name2, then future
> downloads would fail to keep your Quicken holdings correct, and you
> would get offers of placeholders.
>
> You can (at least partially) recover from that choice by telling
> Quicken to unmatch the downloaded security names, then re-match them
> correctly.
>
> To tell Quicken that an existing Quicken security name should not be
> matched to a downloaded security name, Edit the security in the
> Security List and uncheck the box, "Matched with online security".
> When all the names for your problem security (including the correct
> name) are unmatched, go to the Online Center, select the Holdings tab
> of the investment account and click "Compare to portfolio". Quicken
> should ask you what to do with any unmatched security names: tell
> Quicken to use (match to) the proper security name from your Security
> List.
>
> [Security names that are not used in any Quicken transactions can be
> deleted.]
>
> Backup before trying any of the above.
>
> [If it is your intention to record all your actual security
> transactions in Quicken, you should never need a placeholder. If
> Quicken offers one, that should be a reminder to verify your
> transactions and holdings for that security. And you should refuse
> the offer of the placeholder.]
>
>
>
John, thank you so very much. I managed to fix this problem, per your
guidance. Your willingness to help people out on this newsgroup is
appreciated. Greatly appreciated!
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