I sold all my shares of a stock. When I enter the correct number of shares, Quicken says I'm entering a short sale. So I cancelled, entered the sell again, checked the box saying "all shares in account". Quicken dutifully entered the same number of shares. Still, when I hit 'Enter/Done', I get the "Short Sale" message. I accepted it, and now have -0 shares in my portfolio. I can live with this result, but it's annoying.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get rid of -0 shares?
I'm using US Q2004 dlx. I had strange behavior on a sale of stock not exactly the same as yours.
After I sold all the shares of one of my stocks, the stock kept showing in my portfolio months after I sold it even though I have the option not to show securities with closed lots.. And it showed zero shares for that stock in the portfolio. I didn't get anything about a short sale though. I changed the sale to "all shares in account", but it still displayed in the portfolio months after the sale.
I did have some kind of stock split or company combination a year earlier. I originally had 142 shares of the stock. For the earlier transaction I got 0.95 shares for every share and cash for fractional shares.
I entered it as a stock split "old shares=1", "new shares=.95" which gave me
134.9 shares. And sold 0.9 shares on the same day as the split.
Then, of course my last sale was to sell the 134 shares which left me with zero but stayed in my portfolio list even though it showed zero shares.
I went back and changed the stock split to "old shares2", "new shares4.9" and presto the stock no longer displayed in my portfolio as normal.
Just thought it might be similar to yours if you had a stock split for your stock where you might want to try entering the actual shares for old/new instead of ratio if it applies to you.
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