Re: Transaction retrieval for Ameritrade and Scottrade

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In Reply to: Transaction retrieval for Ameritrade and Scottrade posted by Yves Gauthier on February 27, 2005 at 16:39:56:

: Hi,
: I have been a Fund manager user for many years. I am now evaluating version 7.1 (personal) to retieve transaction for both my Ameritrade and Scottrade accounts. I am however getting the following problems:

: 1) Ameritrade account:
: a)I retrieve transaction for all dates.
: b) When the "Preview Importing Transactions" screen comes up, it only contains 4 entries in it (it should contain many more). I went and browsed the file ofxretr.txt; Altought I don't understand all the tags in this file, I can tell that there are many more transaction in this file than the 4 entries listed in the Preview Importing Transaction screen.

: Note: I am also using Quicken software to retrieve the transaction and I does retrieve them all.

: 2) Scottrade account:
: Note: All the distribution from my mututal funds are set to be reinvested automatically (in scottrade).

: When I retrieve the transactions, all the mutual fund distributions are recorded as Distribution of type OTHER. The buy portion of the transaction is not recorded (as if it was never re-invested). The end result is that the number of share are not matching.
:

: Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

Hi Yves,

For the Ameritrade issue it may be that some of your transactions are being reported as "Investment Banking" type transactions. Fund Manager was previously not importing those. For version 7.2 we have added an option where you can specify you'd like those types of transactions as well. These are often transactions types that affect your cash account, like if you write a check or have a credit card where the payments are deducted from your cash account. If you'd like to try out version 7.2 please let me know through our contact form,
and I can send you 7.2 to see if that is the case. Alternatively, you can
send me your ofxretr.txt file, and I can tell by looking at that.

I'm not sure what is going on with Scottrade. Does quicken import these as
reinvested, or does it also show them as distributed only? If you'd like, you
can send me your ofxretr.txt file for this case as well, and I can take a look.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003

Replies:

• Re: Transaction retrieval for Ameritrade and Scottrade ROBERT STINNETT 20:15:31 03/03/05 (1)
  • Re: Transaction retrieval for Ameritrade and Scottrade Mark 10:51:38 03/04/05 (0)