Missing most ETrade Transactions

[cindysdad]

I just started a new portfolio using Portfolio Wizard for an existing ETrade account. It appears to Retrieve transactions only for equities held since 9/14/2010. ETrade account was opened in 2006, and has many trades since then, including in all quarters of 2010.

For those equities that were closed, either short or long, but opened before 9/14/2010, FM shows open date as 9/14/2010 and Sell Value or Cost basis for these as 0.00. Investment Transactions, 1/1/2010-12/11/2010 displays Memo, "Adjustment to obtain retrieved balance", and Amount of 0.00.

Reconcile shows no problems. And running Retrieve Transactions a second time indicates no changes from first retrieve with Portfolio Wizard.

BTW2, I'm using most recent Evaluation version of FM, 10.8.

Is there any way to remedy this problem?

Thank you.
Keith

[Mark]

Hi Keith,

This is not too unusual... Some brokers only keep the transactions on their OFX server for a limited amount of time. It seems like this is about 90 days for ETrade. When you use the new portfolio wizard, Fund Manager requests all available transactions and the current positions. It makes any necessary "adjustment" transactions in order to get your current share balance correct. You can go back and manually edit those initial adjustment transactions to record the correct purchase dates/amounts.

[cindysdad]

Mark --
Thanks for the very quick reply. On a Sunday, no less.
Unfortunately, it looks like I have quite a bit of work ahead, which I was hoping to avoid.
-- Keith