Ok i just found a second problem that will make quicken go haywire,, the first i have already explained in the previous posts.
2nd problem,, If you are long a stock and then sell but accidentally sell more shares than you are long then you would suddenly be short some amount. I think the cyber software is supposed to prevent that but i do remember it happening once in a blue moon at some point last year on cyber 1.7. It ends up causing a problem when you import that kind of trade activity into quicken because penson doesnt list the extra shares as a new position and quicken chooses to calculate a realized gain while including the new position you picked up by mistake on the trade. Here is the example
you go long 1000 shrs of XYZ on april 15th at 3:58 PM
the following day sell 100 on april 16th at 9:31 AM
sell 300 on april 16th at 9:31 AM
sell 700 on april 16th at 9:32 AM**
**-your last sell of 700 ended up making you short 100,,
basically a new position is taken out in that same last trade.
The above would be listed on Pensons account page as described above 100,300,700 and when you import it into quicken that 100 shares would never show other than being included in the 700 shr trade. And it is this that quicken can not seem to handle. It doesnt know how to match it up with the subsequent trades. Since Quicken chooses to do a realized gain in the above example after the 700 final shares are sold,,,I had to manually remove the 100 shares
from the 700 shr sale and make it 600 and then it made sense with the original 1000 shares that were long.
I Then took the 100 shares left over and added it to a later sell that was listed for XYC for that particular days trading on XYC and it made perfect sense. You will always find a place to add those shares at the same price they were sold at when they were included in the 700 lot.
I only have one more month to fix:)
but this really sucks
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