I dont know if I can help but I just installed 2007 and downloaded from
TDAmeritrade.
It works for me except that the MMF shows ex. qaunity 231.34 and cost 0.
So I just plugged in 1 for cost and it shows the correct value of my cash in
the MMF.
If you follow the tranaction of a dividend etc. it goes in cash account then
buys MMF and cash goes back to 0.
Maybe its sort of fixed in 2007?

"W'" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, William R Wood wrote:

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OK. I thought that you might have been musing that if he asks for
and receives the MMF (it still CMFMZ?) that he would have the side
effect of having to "suffer" with higher interest rates too.


<snip> I know what you mean about data entry errors but since I am retired I have
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That brings new meaning to "active investor".

I am confident the CMFMZ Buy and Sell downloads would have worked
for you once set up.

You probably also had to track your wash sales in your spreadsheet,
since Money does not.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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Cal,

Maybe I am confused. Not trying to be funny or imply anything.

Just noting that the regular bank money market acct that TDAM uses as a
sweep account pays very low interest. The separate money market mutual fund
(CMFMZ) is now paying 4.9%, not great but way better than the bank money
market. I don't know what the bank money market rate is as of now but it
was under 1% when I made them put my money in CMFMZ.

I have been a Waterhouse customer for about 20 years and I have never been
able to download Waterhouse or TDWaterhouse (I never tried to download since
they became TDAM) data into Money and have it make sense. The strange
negative and positive numbers they use to handle purchases and sales of
CMFMZ mangle my cash account linked to the investment account. Maybe it
does work if you fiddle with it enough but I never had the energy to try.
After I saw the mess that the downloads made, I simply deleted the
downloaded data and continued to enter my transactions manually.


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Obviously, you know more than me. As I said above I never could download
data and have it make sense. I tried during the Waterhouse days and later
during the TDWaterhouse days. I stopped upgrading Money after Money 2002.
Don't know if later versions worked better.


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I know what you mean about data entry errors but since I am retired I have
plenty of time to catch my mistakes. I reconcile my accounts at least
monthly so I do pick up errors pretty fast. When I was trading full time I
kept a completely separate record of my trades in Excel because Money will
not produce the reports I wanted to to track my results. I entered all data
into my Excel spreadsheet manually too. I needed something to do while I
was watching the ticks come in on my trading software. The Excel stuff
was also useful to verify that Money's balances were correct.


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In microsoft.public.money, William R Wood wrote:

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having the real MMF at AMTD does not cause Money downloads from AMTD
to work properly.

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Microsoft Money. They would do Buys and Sells as well as Dividends.
The Money cash transactions account balance would be zero, unless
there was an unsettled trade. That made it very easy to spot
something amiss.

If I enter data by hand, I *will* have a lot of errors. While
downloading can require checking and occasional dealing with a
missing or duplicated transaction, the occurrence of that is much
lower than my error rate. Plus I am better at finding the mistakes
of others than I am at finding my own errors. :-)

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Don't count on Vanguard doing it perfectly either.

Cal,

That might work as a way of solving the Money problem but the regular bank
sweep account pays hardly any interest.

They tried to put my money into the bank money market account and I took a
fit and made them put it back into the MMF for rich people even though I
ain't rich. No way are they keeping my money in a bank account that
pays real low interest. So the only solution seems to be manual entry of
data.

The MMF is a separate mutual fund and TDAM must buy and sell shares of that
fund every time they deposit or withdraw money for you. Since those shares
cannot be accounted for like cash it totally screws Money up because Money
wants you to track your cash in the cash account linked to your investment
account. I really don't know how the broker can resolve this issue. Maybe
Money needs to be modified to handle the situation as it actually is -
namely the sweep account in question is a money market mutual fund that does
business in shares and not a bank account that deals with cash.

Or, maybe TDAM can get together with Vanguard and try to copy what they do
since their money market accounts apparently work ok. I do have a money
market account with Vanguard but I never tried to download the data, I have
so few transactions that I just type them in manually.

Regards

Bill Wood



"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, W' wrote:

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I suggest you ask them to make your sweep account the MMF that they
normally only give to people who have a lot of Money in cash. Point
out that that would fix the Microsoft Money problem for you while
they get the problem with the bank money market fixed. A nice
snail-mail letter to Joe Moglia's office might help if your initial
request is not met.

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On Feb 18, 9:49 am, W' <W...[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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There have been problems with downloads since last fall when they
created the money market sweep. At the time TDAmeritrade said they
were aware of the problem and working on a solution but I don't know
if it ever got resolved. I manually enter transactions now for this
account and haven't bothered trying auto updates again.

Regards,
JB

I wonder if TDAM even knows there is a problem? (I'm guess it is TDAM's
problem since Vanguard works fine.) Thx for the history.

"William R Wood" wrote:

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I am a long time TDWaterhouse, now TDAmeritrade customer. For whatever its
worth, I gave up trying to download data from TDAM into Money (I use M2002).
I simply enter all transactions manually. The problem with cash being swept
into the money market fund (CMF) did me in too. I fiddled with the problem
for a long time and finally gave up. It was years ago that I last tried but
I guess the problem persists. Anyway I had no trouble entering transactions
manually even when I made my living day trading stocks and options and I
still enter everything manually today.

Regards

Bill Wood


"W'" <W[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have an account with TDAmeritrade in which the cash balance is swept into a
money market fund. I have created a fictitious fund in M06 as a money market
fund. However, when I download the account transactions, the money market
info will not download as money market fund transactions, even if the symbols
are made to be the same. M06 forces me to put the transactions into a stock
fund.

I don't have the same problem with Vanguard accounts, so I suspect there is
a short between the head phones at TDAmeritrade. But just in case someone
else has the same experience, I thought I'd post this information here and
hope for someone to comment.