etrade issues

I only have that happen for one account, and it tarted recently when I sold some shares of one stock while retaining additional shares of that stock. Quicken tells me that E*Trade thinks my balance still should be what it was before the sale. Earlier this evening I finally got tired of the message and disabled Quicken online access for that account and then reenabled it. When Quicken did the download and comparison this time it did not report any discrepancy so I think I've solved the problem.

The other difference that I encounter regularly is with reinvested dividends. I let the transaction be downloaded from E*Trade and then Quicken always tells me that the share balance in Quicken and at E*Trade do not match. The difference in the number of shares owned is always in the .000xx range. I edit the downloaded transaction to to adjust the number of shares purchased by adding or subtracting the small difference and the problem is eliminated. It appears that E*Trade downloads the fractional share transactions to only three decimal places, but downloads the total share balance to five decimal places.

Bernie

Vanguard does the opposite. Downloads shares to five significant digits after the decimal but compares against three. I round the transactions in the same manner they use on the website (which also shows three decimals) so I am generally off in the 1/1000th position. I don't accept the placeholders when I reconcile.

Why they do this bugs the hell out of me.

Bernie wrote: