Investment anomalies?

[aga]

I've looked through the files I've collected, but there is none for 
Reinvested dividends, I'm afraid.

Have you looked on http://www.ofxhome.com/?   Someone there might be 
able to help.

Allan

On 21/01/16 23:12, Bob Ewart wrote:
> On 01/18/2016 08:25 PM, Jack wrote:
>> <snip>
>> Second issue - on the surface, ML does pretend to track whole shares
>> only, with the occasional transaction (I've forgotten the term they
>> use, and don't have time to go digging into a statement right now)
>> where they add or remove a single share.  I used to try to do it that
>> way in KMM.  However, there really is enough information in all the
>> buy/sell/div-reinvest transactions to track shares at fractional
>> amounts (often to four decimal places) and they actually do report
>> that partial amount in the holdings list in the monthly statement. The
>> month I converted to actually tracking too some "creative"
>> transactions, but now it's much easier to know what I actually have.
>>
>> Jack
>>
> When I first started using KMM, ML did report the fractional shares in
> the memo. They don't do that now..  They do  have the name and memo
> fields swapped.  At that time I wrote a little perl program fix the
> fractional shares and the name/memo fields.
>
> Editing the account to fix the name/memo only appears when you're set up
> for online banking.  It should be available for importing from a file.
>
> I did try the online fetch of the ofx data, but ML changed something.
> It's easier to download the ofx file at the same time as my statement.
>
> I get a bunch of dividend-reinvestments every year in December.  So I
> thought I'd update my little fix program.  What should a
> dividend-reinvestment look like in ofx?  I can't find an example anywhere.
>
> The ofx is showing 3 transactions for each reinvestment.
>
> 1. An Income transaction which shows up in the ML account with the
>     amount and no change in shares.  It appears in the brokerage account
>     as income with the category of 'Investment Transaction'.  That
>     appears to be the '_Dividend' category.
> 2. A transfer which shows the units and price.  Seems to be ignored.
> 3. An INVBANKTRN which causes a payment in the brokerage account with
>     no category assigned and not tied to the equity.
>
> My thought is to combine the 3 into two transactions.
>
> 1. An income transaction showing the dividend.  Not sure how to assign
>     the category to short-term, long-term or ordinary dividend.
> 2. A buy transaction showing the units and total cost (Do I need to
>     specify the price/share?)
>