There is no error message. It just doesn't work and I can't figure out why.
Closing a position means the number of shares of that investment goes to
zero (I never delete an investment because I want the portfolio performance
to remain accurate).

I notice that in Money 2004 the way you "stop" an investment from being
watched in the "Investments to Watch" account is by setting its share
balance to zero. Any investment that I've closed obviously has a balance of
zero in its original account. So when I then add it to the Investment to
Watch account I set the share balance there to 1. But it simply never
updates. It's as if the zero share balance in the original account overrides
the Investment to Watch setting of 1.
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Russ Valentine
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"Michael Gordon, MVP" <gordonm[at]denison.edu> wrote in message
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Posted this in the "other" newsgroup, Russ:

Hi Russ,
This issue is new to me. FWIW, I just went to my Watch Account and tried to
add two new investments, one that I currently own and one that I recently
sold. I had no problem doing so. (This is with Money 2005.) When you say
2004 won't let you, what kind of error message are you seeing?


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Michael Gordon
MVP
"Russ Valentine" <russval[at]mvps.org> wrote in message
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Like most folks, whenever I close a position in an investment I like to keep
track of its performance to compare to my new investments. Money 2004 won't
let me.
It will let me add those investments to the Investments to Watch Account,
but it won't track them if they remain in their original account as a closed
position. Investments to Watch will only let me track investments I've never
held before. Is this a known limitation in Money 2004?
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Russ Valentine