Problems with downloading TD Ameritrade transactions.

[David Reiser]

Are you using your account number as your login ID and your PIN as the password?

I’ve forgotten how I originally received my PIN, but I think there’s a way to set a new one if you are logged into the web account access. The ofx credentials are completely different from the web login credentials.

In the past I found that libofx (the utility gnucash uses for Import…) has done a better job of handling buy/sell transactions than aqbanking (directconnect utility). So I’ve used ofxpy to connect to TDA and download ofx files for importing.

TDA also has a habit of including a bunch of placeholder ticker symbols for stocks from which you’ve closed out positions. Dealing with those is a hassle no matter which downloading scheme you use. And I still haven’t figured out how to consistently deal with the way they report the money market/clearing account transactions.

My retirement account at TDA is now big enough that I’ve been thinking about pestering my account advisor to lean on the IT group to allow ofx downloads from the web page (just like Vanguard and TIAA-CREF do…). Maybe they’ll care enough about keeping my money to consider offering better digital service.
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com





> On Jul 27, 2016, at 11:35 AM, RD via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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> Has anyone successfully downloaded transactions from TDAmeritrade? 
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> My user setup seems to be fine as I can download the account list - 
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> 11:33:51 Sending request... 
> 11:33:51 Using old SSL preparation code. 
> 11:33:51 TLS: SSL-Ciphers negotiated: TLS1.2:RSA-AES-256-GCM:AEAD 
> 11:33:54 Waiting for response... 
> 11:33:54 Parsing response... 
> 11:33:54 Parsing response 
> 11:33:54 Status for signon request: Success (Code 0, severity "INFO") 
> The server successfully processed the request. 
> 11:33:54 Status for account info request: Success (Code 0, severity "INFO") 
> The server successfully processed the request. 
> 11:33:54 Operation finished, you can now close this window.
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> but downloading transactions fails consistently - 
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> Connected to "ofxs.ameritrade.com" 
> Using old SSL preparation code. 
> TLS: SSL-Ciphers negotiated: TLS1.2:RSA-AES-256-GCM:AEAD 
> Connected. 
> Sending message... 
> Message sent. 
> Waiting for response... 
> Receiving response... 
> HTTP-Status: 400 (Bad Request) 
> Error parsing server response
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> Thanks.
> RD
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