Agreed re. performance accounting--at some level. You could treat your
shares in the fund as $1 shares and just use Add/Remove shares transactions
for performance and Buy/Sell for purchases and sales. In this scenario, the
share balance = the $ value.

You have 2,200 transactions per month of the fund's shares? 110 every
business day? How does it get valued? How do you ever know how many you
hold? Or does the fund have 2,200 transactions a month in its holdings? Do
you hold shares in the fund? (What's the expense ratio?) Is this some
day-trading investment club?

The "correct" way is not to track the individual investments the fund holds
but to track your shares in the fund at the fund's net asset value per
share. They've got to somehow track the number of fund shares and divide the
value of their holdings by that amount in order to value share level buys
and sells. With that, you have all the data you need--assuming you don't
buy/sell positions in the fund 2,200 times per month.

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Thanks for the response. Alas, there is no way for "cash" to have a notion
of performance (e.g. increase or decrease in value over time). At least no
way I could determine, so other than being include in net worth, Money
doesn't really help me much without performance-over-time reporting...

The problem with the "correct way" (entering individual stocks) is that this
mutual fund is not available on-line and has about 2,200 transactions/month.
So hand-entering is just about impossible :-(

I'm open to other creative ideas!


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You could track the total amount as cash. I'm clueless why you'd want to do
it that way. Tracking it the "correct" way is hardly difficult and provides
reporting and other benefits within the various functions in Money..

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Hi. I'd like to track the performance of stocks in a mutual fund without
entering individual trades of underlying securites. How do I do that? For
example, when I get the monthly statement, I'd like to just enter the total
value increase/decrease of the fund, but still be able to see the fund's
performance over time. The fund has a cash account, too if that matters.
Thanks so much for anyone who can help this newbie!