I'm falsely Rich

You can start by Editing the transactions. You may find some obviously incorrect data, and maybe just correcting that will solve the problem. If there's nothing obviously wrong, you can still clear the existing data, rekey it, then Enter the "modified" transaction.

If Editing the existing transactions doesn't clear up the problem, you probably have to delete them, then re-enter them.

If you have to do that, consider whether their temporary deletion may have some effect on later dated transactions ... say you delete and re-enter a Buy which had shares that were later sold. [I can't tell you what the effect, if any, will be, just to consider it.]

Backup before attempting any changes so you'll know you can't end up any worse than you are now.

Hi, Marty.

After following John's suggestions...

Remember that - unless you've changed the defaults - Quicken automatically backs up your data file weekly, so you should have one backup that is no more than a week old. Look in your folder where you keep your data file (Marty.qdf ?) for a subfolder named \BACKUP. You should see five (by default) sets of files, each set dated a week apart, with the latest set dated within the past week. You should be able to Open that file in Quicken and have to enter only a few days' transactions.

Or, better yet, Open that file and Export just the one account that has the problem. Then close that file and Open your current file and Import that one account, which should have the status before this morning's entries. If you need details on how to do this, please post back.

RC

Well I took a long look at what was going on and did a couple of quick calculations and found that the price per share was 84.65 rather then a dollar a share (its a money market account). Guess I was misled by the one huge price increase and (at first) did not look closer. I did another update at 6PM and now the price per share shows $1 but the Daily change is $-83.65 and all of the balances agree with Vanguard. So where ever the shares prices are coming from were messed up this morning and look like it has been corrected. Won't know for sure until I do another update tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestions, they all seemed viable but gland I did not jump through hoops to get this fixed. I may still need to depending on what happens tomorrow. Will let you the outcome.

Thanks Marty

Check your Quicken price history for the mm fund.

Sometime in this year, Quicken has begun occasionally exhibiting a problem with money market mutual fund pricing.

I'm not sure whether this problem is a part of the larger Quicken price download problem (which Intuit has already acknowledged, and has explained is significant, and said will take a long time to fix).

Occasionally - not very frequently, in my experience - Quicken violates it's policy of not "downloading" prices for mm mutual funds (any fund whose symbol ends in "XX"). Worse, Quicken downloads totally erroneous prices for those mm funds. When I see this phenomena, I notice mm fund prices/share in the $4 to $5 dollar range (but there is no reason I can think of why the incorrect price/share would be limited to that range) ... if you already have a lot of mm fund shares, this could make a significant difference in your reported net worth.

When I see the problem, I open the price history for the mm fund, delete the prices, then make sure there is a $1 price/share at least as old as my oldest holding.

Sorry; I didn't even think of that when I read your post. But it does show how important details can be when reporting a problem: if you'd said your problem was with a mm fund, I would have reported the problem that I've seen.

[And whenever you find what you believe to be a net worth problem that relates to investment accounts, you should make it a point to check your Quicken price history as part of your investigation.]

Absolutely right! I was so shocked by the $11M error I did not study the overall MM fund to see if there were other anomalies which there was. Next time (never I hope) I will look farther at all entries.

Marty

Well I'm poor again. After yesterday's update everything straitened out. Nuts!!!!!! :-)

Marty