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You must first deposit money into your investment account to fund any investment purchases. In Quicken, this transaction is recorded as a transfer of cash into the investment account.
You can either record the transfer as a lump sum to establish a cash balance, or handle the transfers incrementally as you enter each Buy transaction.
It is also possible to fund an investment account by transferring shares from another investment account. These shares can then be sold to raise cash to fund new purchases.
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