Use the Add Security to Quicken dialogs to fill in the requested information. You may not see all the fields listed below, depending on the type of security you're adding and how much information Quicken can retrieve online based on the name or ticker symbol you enter.
Ticker symbol and lookup
Enter a ticker symbol if you plan to update your portfolio prices online or import price data from an ASCII file.
Click Lookup if you would like Quicken to find the symbol for you (requires Internet access). (Optional)
Name
Enter the name of the security in the Name field.
Type
Specify a type of investment vehicle for this security. Quicken's standard security types are Stock, Mutual Fund, US Savings Bond, Bond, Emp. Stock Opt., ESPP, CD, Market Index, and Other.
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Stock: A piece of a company, sold in units called shares. Stock represents a share of ownership, or equity, in a corporation. For example, if you buy 10,000 shares in a company with 1 million shares outstanding, you own 1 percent of the company.
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Mutual Fund: A managed portfolio that sells shares of its own portfolio. The portfolio may include stocks, bonds, and money market investments.
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US Savings Bond: A federal bond offered to US citizens to help fund government spending, which provides savers with a guaranteed return.
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Bond: When someone lends money, that person gets an IOU promising the loan will be repaid with interest. When you buy a bond, you're basically buying an IOU from a government agency or a corporation (examples of U.S. government bonds are U.S. Treasury securities and E/EE savings bonds). Because most bonds pay interest every six months, they are often considered good investments if you need a regular source of income. You also get the original loan amount back when the bond matures. Like a credit rating for a person, a bond rating gives you an idea of whether the bond issuer will be able to make its payments on the loan. When interest rates are rising, bond prices tend to go down; when rates are falling, bond prices usually go up.
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Emp. Stock Opt.: Employee stock options are the right to buy shares of stock at a fixed price. Many companies give options to employees as an incentive to work to raise the market price of the stock above the option price so that when the employees buy their shares (called exercising their options), they can sell the shares at the market rate and make a profit. There are two types of employee stock options: nonqualified (NQSO) and qualified (incentive, or ISO). The difference between the two is important for tax purposes when you exercise your options and sell your shares.
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ESPP: A plan established by your company that permits you to buy company stock, usually at a discount.
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CD: Issued by a bank that borrows your money for a specified time and pays you interest at a fixed rate. The value does not fluctuate, but you pay penalties if you redeem it before its due date.
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Market Index: A statistical composite of representative stocks (for example, the Dow Jones Industrials or the NASDAQ Composite).
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Cryptocurrency: Digital or virtual money secured by blockchain technology. Quicken tracks cryptocurrencies by symbol, the same way other securities are tracked.
Currency
In the Currency drop-down list, select a currency. (This option only appears if you've enabled multiple currency support.) (Optional)
Asset class
In the Asset Class drop-down list, select an asset class. If this security contains a mixture of asset classes (as with a mutual fund), click the Mixture radio button, then specify the mixture in the Asset Class Mixture dialog. (Optional)
Click Download Asset Class Information to download the asset class of the security or fund (requires Internet access).
Tax free
Click Tax Free if this security is tax-free. Some municipal bonds and other securities are tax-free. Consult your tax advisor.
Use average cost
This option is available for mutual funds only. Select it if you want to use the average cost to track the cost basis of the mutual fund.
Back load
If this security is a mutual fund, check to see if it has a back load. If the answer is yes, enter the percentage on which the back load is based. This field is important if you want to accurately calculate capital gains. (Optional) A back load, also called a back-end load or a deferred sales charge, is a fee to sell shares in a mutual fund. The fee is usually a percentage of the total amount withdrawn and often decreases the longer a shareholder remains in a fund.
Bond type, maturity date, call date
These fields only appear if you set up this security as a bond. Edit as necessary.
Matched with online security
If Matched with Online Security is selected, you identified this security as being involved in a previous download of investment transactions. If you no longer want downloaded transactions with the same CUSIP number, ticker symbol, or name to affect this security, clear Matched with Online Security.
To re-establish the connection, download transactions involving the security and select to match it again.
Note: A CUSIP number is a unique number assigned to each security by the Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures.
Other info
From this section you can also do the following:
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Change or delete the estimated income for a security.
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Edit contact information connected with this security, such as your broker's name and phone number.
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Add or change the security's associated investing goal.
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Enter a security rating for this investment.
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Add comments or additional information.