QUICKEN portfolio view

So what year, version, and release are you using?

I can't picture just what you mean. Can you be more specific?

What is your "portfolio list"? Is it the Portfolio tab of the "Investing Center"? In what manner do the "sold" items appear?

Usually this occurs for one or both of two reasons:

(1) the stock is on your Watch List, and/or

(2) a tiny fraction of a share remains (caused by a rounding error, often in the 6th decimal place).

If this isn't enough info to resolve your problem, post back with the info John requested.

Jerry

Neither is the case. I checked the watch list - nada, and the fraction of shares is also a no go. I actually tried to delete & re- enter each transaction, to see if anything needed to be 'cleaned' out. It didnt help. Any other ideas? lea

John, I am using Quicken Premier 2006

Once I have sold a holding e.g. 100 shares of AT&T, bought them, held them for a year. The holding would appear in my portfolio view for that entire year. Once I sell them they should no longer show up in that view. In this case they just 'wont go away'. This means that in my portfolio view I have several items, including this hypothetical AT&T, in which I hold 0 shares.

Any ideas? Lea

Click the "Options" menu item on the Portfolio tab; make sure the option to "Show closed lots" is not selected.

Lea wrote in news:a1c5169a-dbd6-4a06-a0de- snipped-for-privacy@e37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:

Yup... I get this too.... there's a couple of stocks that just *will not* go away, no matter what I re-enter or change.

Using Q2009H&B here.

I have Quicken 2009. I have exactly that same thing in my portfolio view, showing stocks that I no longer own. If I enable "Show Closed Lots", then additional older stocks and funds show up. If I remove the check mark under "watch" in the security list, they disappear from the portfolio view. In fact, I watched one stock disappear and reappear in the portfolio when I clicked on the check mark in the security list.

If that doesn't work, you can customize the view and remove individual stocks or accounts. That might cause a problem if you buy the same stocks again.

-- Jim

Hi, Eric - and Lea.

In the "wizard" for the sale of the last shares of a security, did you enter the number of shares you sold? Or did you check the box to "Sell all shares in this account"?

If Quicken thinks you have 100.00000001 shares before the sale, and you tell it you sold 100 shares, then it thinks you still have .00000001 share left. Try checking the "all shares" box and let Quicken record that you sold the whole lot of 100.00000001 shares. Then Quicken can be happy and the difference in recording and reporting your transaction won't be enough to notice.

It's worth a try. :^}

RC

John, I see why you'd think this might work. When I selelct the option I end up with many many items that I show zero balance. I hoped that when I deselected, it might go away, but it didnt. Looks like I'll just have to live with this.

If you've also made sure the old securities are not on your Watch List, and if you've tried changing the newest "Sell" transaction for one of your problem securities so it sells "all shares in this account"; the only other suggestion I can make is to try to "recalculate" the account register(s) where the problem securities were held. You do that by holding CTRL while pressing the letter "Z", in the Transactions tab of the investment account (Quicken should then present a dialog box, asking if you want to do the "recalculate").

"R. C. White" wrote in news:0Z6dnRCSub8ILMLWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@posted.grandecom:

That will not solve the problem. I've done that numerous times. In fact, a couple of the securities this happens with, I have never bought or sold anything other than integral numbers of shares.

How about trying a REMOVE SHARES transaction and using the SPECIFY LOTS option? Q will bring up a popup window with the shares that it thinks you still own? Does that work?

So: do you claim to speak for every other person's situation ... or just your own?

"John Pollard" wrote in news:hjqqj9$136$1 @news.eternal-september.org:

The adults are having a conversation here. Hush, John.

So do you have evidence that the suggestion offered by R.C. has never prevented, or solved, this problem for anyone ... or is your snide remark your, not very adult, way of admitting that you don't have such evidence?

"John Pollard" wrote in news:hjt3uq$j3i$1 @news.eternal-september.org:

I never said that. It just never worked for me.

You never fail to entertain me.

Dance, John, Dance!!!!!