When the number of shares you account for is equal to the number of shares listed in the cost-basis entry, it is completely resolved. You can resolve them by entering one transaction or by manually entering your entire transaction history for that security. In order to get accurate tax projections and portfolio value, you need to fix these placeholder entries. So, if you have purchased some shares prior to that time, then that transaction is not downloaded and listed in your Quicken investing register. This may happen because many financial institutions restrict the data to be downloaded for past 90 days (or in some cases, past 1 year) only. It does not include the date of purchase or the price of the share. For example, if you downloaded 250 shares and your broker records 300 shares for the same security, Quicken adds a placeholder entry of 50 shares to make up for the difference.Įach placeholder entry identifies the security name and the difference in the number of shares. In such cases, Quicken adds a placeholder transaction to make up the difference.
For any security, if the total number of shares listed in the downloaded investment transaction is not equal to the total number of shares represented in the Quicken investing register, then the security is called as an out-of-bound security.
