copying brokerage transactions

It's not clear why you needed to create a new Quicken account for JP Morgan. I would have thought you could just have deactivated the existing account for download (and probably cleared fields like the financial institution name, account number, etc.), then pointed the download from JP Morgan to the old ("existing Quicken") account. But, assuming the die is cast ....

You can cut, or copy, then paste, from one investment account to another ... but only one transaction at a time. [I have no problem doing this in Q2008 or Q2010.]

The only way to "move" multiple investment account transactions from one Quicken investment account to another investment account is to export the "from" account to a QIF file, then (assuming your Quicken version is later than Q2004) follow the instructions in the post below to import that QIF file into the Quicken "to" account (then delete the old Quicken account).

You can "transfer" your holdings from one Quicken to another, using the Quicken "Shares Transferred Between Accounts" pseudo-transaction. It will "Remove" the shares from the old account and "Add" the shares (one Add Shares transaction for each "lot" transferred) to the new account ... preserving your cost basis in the process.

John,

Thank you very much for your valuable advice. I would have gotten back to you sooner but I was on the phone for two days with different offices and different people at J.P. Morgan, trying to get help. We have finally solved the problem.

Creating a new Quicken account was a mistake made by the very first customer rep who helped me several days ago. At that time I did not know enough about what was happening in order to question it. I subsequently tried to fix it and when the person I next spoke to at J.P. Morgan was not able to help me activate my original existing account I thought the best way to handle it would be by copying and pasting. But after receiving your advice I called again and finally found someone who was able to help me. I deleted the new Quicken account and activated the old existing one. But activating it took a phone conversation over two days as J.P. Morgan (at least for their Bear Stearns division) does not use their normal customer login ID and password for Quicken. It took the rep a while to figure that out.

I did have a problem trying this but, of course, I no longer need to do it so will not worry about it.

I suppose that the holdings would be sufficient, but since we do a lot of trading, it is just easier for me to have all the actual transactions for each brokerage account in one place on the transactions page for each of the accounts.

I have done this in the past when I have transferred shares from one brokerage firm to another, but although it does preserve the cost basis, the date in the new account is the date of the transfer, not the date of the transaction.

Caryl

Yes, Quicken gives the Add Shares transaction a "transaction date" equal to the date of the transfer. But it gives the Add Shares transaction a "Date Acquired" the same as the original (transferred) lot was acquired in the "from" account. Usually both dates are just what one would want.

I forgot about the "Date Acquired" field. That does give all the information that is needed except that one has to go to the edit screen to see it, which is not as convenient as being on the transactions page itself. I hope that I remember it the next time I need a transaction date for one of my "add shares" stocks.

Caryl