Unhiding Hidden Investments

[elliots]

Mark,

There seems to be an issue with unhiding sold investments. I view it as a bug, but you might see it as a suggestion.

I've run FILE OPERATIONS/HIDE SOLD INVESTMENTS with a date range 12/31/10 to 3/31/11. I have an investment which had 0 shares 12/31/10, then bought and sold shares on the same day in Jan 2011. It therefore has 0 shares on 3/31/11 (and as of the end of day every day in the date range). I've got "UnHide Non-Sold Investments" checked. This one stays hidden, I guess because you are looking at end of day balances. I think this investment should be un-hidden since it did have a balance/activity during the period --just not end of day.

Now that I think about it, I guess something that paid a dividend received after the position was sold out could also stay hidden (and I think it should un-hide). Maybe you need an additional option to cover "any transaction" during the selected period in addition to looking at end of day balances.

Elliot

[Mark]

Hi Elliot,

You are right, that the algorithm is only looking for a non-zero end of day share balance. In the example you give below it will incorrectly be considered "sold". This was not the intention, so it is a bug and will be fixed for the next release.

Thanks for the idea on "any transaction". That can be something to consider for a future update.

[elliots]

Mark,

Something else to consider when you fix this.

I "hid" sold investments early last week. On Thursday, I made a new purchase of a previously sold investment (didn't realize it was a previous investment). I imported transactions and reconciled this morning. I couldn't find the investment in the portfolio I bought it in yet the reconciliation was clean. Took me a while to figure out that the new purchase was in the hidden investment.

I think if any new transaction takes place in a hidden investment, it should automatically unhide the investment. Otherwise you pretty much have to re-run the hide routine every day you import data.

Elliot

[Mark]

Hi Elliot,

Good idea, thanks. Maybe on the import dialogs we could add a new option to un-hide any investment that ends up with a non-zero share balance and had a transaction imported. I'll have to think about this. I don't want to have too many options. Maybe it needs to be just a global option

Besides using "Hidden" investments, if you are mostly only using Reports, you can also utilize the option:

Options / Report Preferences... / General / Do Not Display Investments With Zero Share Balance

BTW, that initial bug you reported is fixed in v11 already.