OK based on what you are telling me I will modify my program to produce a
seperate OFX document to initilize the position. I have a friend checking to
see if the generated transaction OFX will also work for the latest version of
Quicken. If there are no Quicken issues I should have this wrapped up soon.
I will post in the news group once I get the code uploaded into code project.
Thanks for all of your help.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, AngryDeveloper wrote:

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Not that I know of. I have not tried to see if the DTASOF would be
of use.

You could make a BUY of the right date and make a price.
You could try setting the computer clock back and let Money create
the AddShares in response to the position data.

Something else to watch for: I think if the first that Money hears
of a Money Market Fund, in a position in an investment account, is a
transaction, I think it becomes a mutual fund. Both are acquired
with BUYMF etc.
The small deal is you would have to remember to enter $1 as the
price if your enter transactions manually. The big deal is that if
the MMF is taken to be a mutual fund, each transaction makes a line
on schedule D! I could be remembering old info, but watch for it.

OK only one part of my conversion program does not work as expected. I can
successfully convert the QIF from my broker to a OFX with all of the buy/sell
transactions showing up correctly in Money 2005. I cannot figure out how to
enter in the mutual fund positions as of 12/31/2004. I am trying to feed an
Active Statement into money 2005 that consist of OXF elements <INVTRANLISTand <INVPOSLIST> .

The MFBUY,MFSELL transactions date from 1/3/2005 thru 2/5/2005 and are
showing up in Money just fine. However, I need to establish the positions
that I had in mutual funds prior to 1/3/2005.

1. First thought was to add the appropriate items in the <INVPOSLIST> dated
12/30/2004 but I end up with entries dated 12/30/2004 that have units but no
dollar amount and entries dated 2/5/2005 with units and dollar amounts. It
looks like Money is adding the positions effective with the statement date
<INVSTMTRS> <DTASOF> which is 2/5/2005.
2. The OFX spec implies that you can have multiple <INVSTMTRS> elements in
a document (does not say you can't). This way I could have one statement
dated 12/31/2004 and another dated 2/5/2005 in the same document. NOPE Money
does not like the OFX file in that case.
3. I solved the problem by creating a document that contained only the
<INVPOSLIST> entries with a statement date of 12/31/2004 followed by a
document that contains the <INVTRANLIST> entries dated 2/5/2005 but I wanted
to see if it was possible to do this in one document.

So my question. Is it possible to create an Active Statement that can setup
your investment position as of some date in the past that also contains all
of the transactions required to bring your portfolio up to date?
Thanks.