[unclefoobar]

Hi:
Ok, so i closed a brokerage account last year and opened a new one.
To finalize the transaction in Quicken 2004, I Moved Shares out on the
old account (with no way of designating WHERE the shares moved to) and
Moved Shares in on the new account.
Now, when looking at the lots, there doesn't seem to be any info on the
buy/sell transactions as there should be.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Foob
P.S. an addendum: this thread talks about moving shares; i guess what you do is from portfolio view is drag the shares to the new account, say with the date set to the day when the transfer happens. I'll have to try this.
http://www.macworld....true#Post288207

[unclefoobar]

OK, so i tested out using the drag shares from
one account to another.
This makes NO sense. It copies over transactions BEFORE i opened
the new account. yes, i get the history, but it is from the wrong account.
Is there an alternative? I did notice that i can set a price on move shares;
if i use the basis at this point, will it let me get the basis right for
transactions moving forward?
Confused,
Foob

[groundhum]

In the portfolio window with the view set to Group By Account, drag the security name from the old account to the new account. After you drag stuff to the new account, all the old transactions will show up in the new account as a transfer from the old account. The old transactions have to be transfered so the bases can be calculated. You don't want to do Move Shares.
I went through this about a year ago. It's creepy, but it worked properly. And backup your data file before you do it just in case.

[unclefoobar]

The drag shares in portfolio method is unacceptable; it totally ruins my having separate accounts!
Move Shares works if you pull the basis number from the day before the MS; the basis is listed in portfolio view if you have that column enabled.
Foob

[pcbrown5931]

I think I tried Move Shares Out/In once and didn't like it. I settled for changing the name on the account since the broker had us move all the shares over. Actually one of the accounts I named according to the advisor, since the relationship is with him and not really to the institution. There's a few oddball transactions in there because of this decision, but it seems to have worked, and I don't have a lot of dead accounts left over in Quicken.
I haven't had occasion to try the Drag Shares method. I've never tried to download the monthly activity - there's not enough of that to even try.
//Polly