ETrade apparently holds the cash in my brokerage accounts in some kind of bank sweep accounts. There's no "security" associated with this money -- it's just noted as cash. At the end of the month, via Quicken's download, I get an ETrade transaction which is the interest the cash made for the month. What Quicken downloads is a Deposit with a Payee of "Int", a Category of "Computer" and a Memo describing what it really is. In general, this sucks (since there's no link between the account and any of the standard Quicken interest categories). Since this is also a Roth IRA account, classifying the transaction as a Deposit REALLY sucks since Quicken will think I'm depositing money (a limited activity in an IRA).
Obviously, I have to manually re-enter this transaction as something else. But, as what? An Income event seems right, but it wants (doesn't need) a security. How do I associate the income to the sweep account? Do I generate a stand-in security for this or just ignore it? Also, since this sweep account is some kind of bank account instead of a security, I assume an Interest event is better than a Dividend one. Is that correct?