thanks cal.

you are right on all accounts - taxable account.

thanks for the help

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, rsercely wrote:

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We infer this is not in a tax-deferred account. Otherwise the basis
of the shares is not important.

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That is not a regular ticker. Hmmm.

So this is not a taxable event? Because if it were taxable or was in
a tax-deferred account, buy and sell is the best way.


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Split is pretty much the only way to maintain the basis and history.
Here would be the process"

1. Assuming you don't already hold "bptaz", blank its symbol. Then
change the name to something you will not want to use for another
purpose.

2. Split the shares 10649 shares for every 10288 shares
The error factor is a negligible 1.1 parts per Billion.

3. Change the symbol and name to that of the new holding.

4. Record the event in the comment field of the Details.


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I have an investment, ticker pbtbx, 1234.56 shares, that are a result of
initial purchase plus many reinvestments of dividends, so there is a lot of
cost basis history.

On jan 12, 05, "they" sold the 1234.56 shares, and bought 1277.88 shares of
ticker bptaz.

How do I treat it? Split is bad, because of all the fractions. Also, after
the split, when I try to do a name change, I get an error, because the "new"
name is already in my portolio :-(

I am thinking of selling all, and then buying all with the funds - the one
problem I see - the "new" purchase, if I sell anything soon, will not figure
cost basis as long term, which would be very messy:

consider that there was a reinvestment of dividend jan 12, 2004 of 1 share.
If I were to sell the "new" shares jan 12 of 2006 - these shares would
report as short term gains or loss, but would really be long term, right?