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Help interfacing to Schwab?

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david.beav

22 Jun, 2026 01:07 AM

Can someone who's successfully hooked MD to their Schwab investment account, help me out? I have a bunch of frustrations, and support requests haven't been answered so I hope the community can help? Post "Sure, I can help" and I'll post my issues.

1. 1 Posted by dtd on 22 Jun, 2026 04:17 AM

   

   are you trying to hook through direct connect or plaid? schwab hasn't worked with direct connect for quite some time.

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2. 2 Posted by david.beav on 22 Jun, 2026 04:22 AM

   
   Hi, DTD.

   
   

   I'm using Plaid.  The connection and downloads work, but screwy things happen with the numbers, account balances are wrong, and transactions don't show in reports like I'd expect.

   
   

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3. 3 Posted by dtd on 22 Jun, 2026 05:48 AM

   

   you'd have to post examples versus general issues - especially transactions don't show in reports....

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4. 4 Posted by david.beav on 23 Jun, 2026 11:03 PM

   

   Well OK, here goes.

   Something about the download from Schwab and the way MD has handled movement of money between cash account and investments is double counting records or something. The total account balances in the Summary view, and on the Portfolio view, are wrong (too high) for 3 accounts.

   In one account, some T Bills matured. In the Register I see MiscInc of X amount, and the Cash Balance increased correctly. A few days later I reinvested that, and the Register shows Buy of that amount and the Cash Balance decreased. But the Portfolio View is double counting... there's a line for "CUR:USD" of the X amount, and also a line for US Treasury Note for that amount, so it double counts.

   In regular checking accounts I know how to fix errors. I don't understand all the different transaction types in the Register (Xfr, Div, MiscExp, MiscInc, Buy, Sell, etc) so I don't know what it's trying to do, so I don't know how to fix it. I've done no manual entries; I'm just relying on the Plaid feed. (Is there any better documentation of how the Investment features work than what I found online?) I also don't get the diff between Register, Bank Register and Securities Detail screens... when I try to fix a problem which screen do I fix it on?

   Other accounts are messed up too, but if I can get this one right then I'll know more.

   Thanks as always.

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5. 5 Posted by david.beav on 08 Jul, 2026 04:15 AM

   

   PS: Something happened in the Schwab synch today that changed the Price of a $CUR:USD to $100,000 each....so I how have $402,000,436,046.92 in one account and $105,000,140,732.99 in another account. I don't understand where to fix this?

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