ROI report - it's a mystery

I'm looking at my Portfolio report with Quicken 2012 -

Not sure of any other way to display this "report", since it is not really listed in the Reports tab with Q2012...

Using the main area screens

--> Home --> Investing tab --> Portfolio button

I can see all of my investments listed, along with columns for...

- Amount Invested

- Return

- ROI

Some of my items appear to match the "amount invested" and some don't even come close. And it doesn't seem to have any logic based upon when things were bought/sold, etc...

Therefore - I have no idea how the ROI is even being calculated for overall, 1yr, 3yr.

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"ps56k" wrote

I'm looking at my Portfolio report with Quicken 2012 -

Not sure of any other way to display this "report", since it is not really listed in the Reports tab with Q2012...

Using the main area screens

--> Home --> Investing tab --> Portfolio button

I can see all of my investments listed, along with columns for...

- Amount Invested

- Return

- ROI

Some of my items appear to match the "amount invested" and some don't even come close. And it doesn't seem to have any logic based upon when things were bought/sold, etc...

Therefore - I have no idea how the ROI is even being calculated for overall, 1yr, 3yr.

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The first place to go for such information is Quicken Help. Near the end of the Help Contents is the Glossary, where most such terms are defined.

Amount Invested:

"Amount invested is the actual dollar amount that you've invested in a security to date. Amount invested includes any expenses (such as commissions and fees) for that security. It does not include reinvested amounts, such as reinvested dividends, interest, or capital gains distributions.

By default, Quicken calculates the amount invested over your entire account history. Quicken can also report the amount invested for a specified date range. Change the date range by changing the Portfolio's From or As of date or by using the standard Portfolio columns Amount Invested 1-/3-/ 5-Year and Amount Invested YTD.

When you change the Portfolio date range, Quicken calculates the amount invested during that period to be the difference between the beginning amount and ending amount of the date range:

Beginning amount: For shares purchased before the beginning date, Quicken uses the market value on the beginning date. For shares purchased after the beginning date but before the ending date, Quicken uses the actual cost of those shares. Ending amount: Quicken uses the market value on the date you specify. (Shares purchased after the ending date are not included in the amount invested.) When the Amount Invested changes, so do the calculations for Return and ROI (%), which are based on the amount invested.)

Amount invested doesn't decrease when you sell shares (unless you sell all shares of a given security?then it goes to zero), whereas cost basis does. If calculations such as ROI appear lower than you would expect, it could be because the amount invested includes the cost of shares you no longer own.'

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John Pollard

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