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On 08/29/2011 05:55 PM, Jack wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:1314665754.11935.0@ffortso4" type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">If I understand correctly, the standard
"fees" are filled up when my broker (Schwab) charges me fees -
but in this case the fee was charged by someone down the line
(ADR) so they show it to me as separate transactions. Ideally,
I'd want all of these to be merged into a single transaction in
KMM (which I did manually while fixing my old data).
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See below, but KMM only knows what is in the downloaded
transactions. It has no idea of what they are supposed to
represent.
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In this case, they have near-identical description/memo, you'll see
it in the OFX dump.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:1314665754.11935.0@ffortso4" type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">I wanted to create a dummy
Investment+Brokerage account to see if it works properly
together with OFX, but I couldn't associate the online account
with it for some reason - it just keeps saying "no suitable
accounts found"
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If you are trying to map the same Schwab account to a new KMM
account, KMM knows the account is already mapped, and will not map
it to another account. You might want to create a whole separate
.kmy file for this testing.
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I did this time and keep getting the same errors: "Connection to
host ofx.schwab.com is broken.<!--EndFragment-->" and "No suitable
accounts were found at this bank." The original account update works
okay.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:1314665754.11935.0@ffortso4" type="cite">In my
opinion, you have a problem with OFX and Schwab, not with KMM
(although there may yet be a way for KMM to help with the
problem.)
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This shows (at least to me) one major issue with OFX. There may
be standards for construction of the actual OFX messages, but
there is apparently some "flexibility" in how they are used. For
example, I personally expect a dividend reinvestment to be a
single transaction, but Merrill Lynch does it as three: a
dividend, a share purchase, and a dividend reinvestment.
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In your case, Schwab apparently considers one or both of the fees
to be a separate transaction, and not actually a part of the
dividend transaction. I don't think there is any realistic way
KMM can (or should) merge them back to a single transaction. <br>
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In addition, depending on how the transaction for the fee is
written, if it does not reference the security, then KMM can't
import it (via OFX) into the investment account, so using the CSV
importer is probably the best approach for now.
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However, depending on what is in that transaction, it is still
possible the KMM is not doing the right thing with it. You know
the transaction represents a fee - but that may or may not be what
the transaction type indicates. The only way we can tell is if
you submit a copy of the OFX transaction(s) (with sensitive data
altered as necessary).
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Is there a quick'n'dirty howto (or maybe even a tool) to get
anonymized OFX dump? Otherwise, I'll have to "touch ofxlog.txt" and
then edit out the stuff.<br>
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Just now did an update on the account (after cleanup) and now those
fee transactions showed up in the Brokerage account. Problem is,
they're filed as Transfer and there are no clues as to which fee
each one might represent - not even in the comment. They have the
security info, though.<br>
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