Quicken enters a Placeholder Entry if you're missing part of your transaction history. For any given security, if the total number of shares bought or added in your transaction list doesn't equal the number of shares in your account, then Quicken enters a placeholder entry to make up the difference. Placeholder entries are shown in the Placeholder Entries section under the investment register of the account.
- Open the account you want to use.
- : In the Placeholder Entries window below the register, see if there are any placeholders. You can quickly identify this by the number of placeholder entries displayed in the window header.
- In the Enter Missing Transactions dialog, click the appropriate option. Click a link Review the options below to learn more.
- Repeat this process for all securities that have placeholder entries.
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Choosing an option
Enter Missing Transactions to get complete performance reporting and tax planning assistance. You'll need to enter the missing historical transactions for all securities you own.
Use the Estimate Average Cost shortcut if you're willing to estimate historical data for this security. Quicken will report approximate values for some performance and tax calculations.
For more information, see
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About the Estimated Average Cost dialog
In the As of field
Quicken displays the date of your placeholder entry for this security:
- If you added this account by downloading transactions and holdings information from your financial institution, then this is the date of your first download.
- If you added this account by manually entering holdings information from a brokerage statement, then this is the statement ending date.
In the Holdings area of the dialog
Quicken displays the following:
- Total shares you own: This is the number of shares you own(ed) on the As of
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- date.
- If you added this account by downloading holdings information from your financial institution, then this number is from your brokerage's online records.
- If you added this account by manually entering holdings information, then this is what you owned on the ending date of the statement you used to add the account.
- Shares from transactions: These are the shares accounted for by any historical transactions you entered or downloaded prior to the As of date.
- Shares in Placeholder Entry: This is the number of shares represented by a placeholder entry. Whenever the shares entered in historical transactions
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- don't equal the total number of shares you own, Quicken either prompts you to enter a Placeholder, or enters it for you. These are the shares that don't have historical cost basis information.
Tips about what you see in the Enter Missing Transactions dialog
In the Transactions as of list
Quicken displays all the historical transactions you've entered or downloaded for this security:
- Date of the transaction
- Transaction type
- Description of the number of shares and the cost per share for each transaction
In the Holdings as of area
Quicken displays the following:
- Total shares you own: This is the number of shares you own(ed) on the As of date.
- Shares from transactions: These are the shares accounted for by any historical transactions you entered or downloaded prior to the As of date. These are in the transaction list above. As you add historical transactions, the transaction list populates and this number grows.
- Shares in Placeholder Entry: This is the number of shares represented by a placeholder entry. Whenever the shares entered in historical transactions
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- don't equal the total number of shares you own, Quicken either prompts you to enter a Placeholder, or enters it for you. These are the shares that don't have historical cost basis information. As you add historical transactions, the transaction list populates, and this number shrinks. When it reaches zero, you've successfully entered all missing transactions as of the placeholder date.