RE: Negative balance error message when trying to add a buy transa by RollsRoyce
RollsRoyce
Wed Sep 13 11:38:01 CDT 2006
Hi, Trish. I've been thinking of doing the same thing, and like you, I hate
to lose all the history/cost basis info on this investment. It's really
bizarre that only one investment tanks for each of us, and that the others
work fine.
Royce
"Scottygirl" wrote:
> My version is Money 2006. I ended up selling all the shares and then creating
> a new fund of a very similar name and buying them again at the same price.
> Only issue is that I lose all the price history and the true cost basis.
> However, I'd rather have an accurate balance, so it's worth the trade off.
> --
> Trish
>
>
> "Rolls-Royce" wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "Scottygirl" wrote:
> >
> > > I have an account with 4 funds in it. I went to add 4 buy transactions for
> > > end of August (same process I have been using for the past few yeas) for each
> > > of the funds. With one of the funds only, (that has over 2000 units in it
> > > already), I try adding the buy transaction for 6 units and I get an error
> > > message
> > > "Adding the sell, remove or redeem shares activity will cause the balance of
> > > "account name" held in this investment account to become negative at some
> > > point. Please cancel this activity.
> > >
> > > Why am I getting a sell type error when I am trying to increase the shares
> > > via a buy? No problem on the other 3 funds, just this one.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Trish
> >
> > I just started seeing the same thing yesterday on only one of the five
> > investments in my 401K. The other four are working fine in that I can add
> > "Buy" information and the transactions are entered without problems. I tried
> > the Standard Repair on my Money file, and it didn't help. I'm using Money
> > 2005.
> >
> > Royce