It's not a FAQ and even if it were, I don't have a clue, so I probably
wouldn't add it to the unofficial FAQ. Sorry.

"John DeMastri" <john[at]demastri.dot.com> wrote in message
news:uS24THP9EHA.3756[at]TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
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Looked through the FAQ, hope I haven't missed something obvious.

I have two stock option grants in one investment account. Each is a
separate investment with the same underlying stock (Option Grant XX 2004 and
Option Grant XX 2005). They both vest 1/3 each year.

All is well at this point...now some of the first grant vest, and I exercise
them and transfer the (now real) stock to a brokerage account. The majority
of the first grant's options are still unvested, and are live options.

At this point, however, only the second grant still shows up properly in the
Portfolio Manager screen. It looks like if you exercise any of the options,
M05 assumes you've exercised 'em all, and that grant doesn't show up in the
summaries for the options account. This is incorrect behavior, but am I
doing something wrong?

Here's what I'm doing in the options account when a grant (partly) vests
- First I do an Exercise/Sell to turn the options into (pseudo) cash in the
options account.
- I do a Buy to get the real shares into the options account
- I do a Transfer Out to get the shares into a real brokerage account
- I do any cash transfers from the associated cash account to pay taxes or
get fractional cash into the brokerage account.

If I just enter the vest, everything's fine (except the shares are in this
acct - not the real brokerage) - if I enter an Exercise/Sell to get them out
of this account, the grant disappears completely from the options account.

If I go into the account and select Investment Transactions, I see the
transactions for both grants. If I go to Account Summary, only the summary
for the second one shows.

(I've tried both levels of File Repair)

Any thoughts?

Thanks - John