Hi again Rustler - I spent a little more time digging into this and got it nailed down in a perfect way given what I already had set up.
As an aside, Given that we were donated 130 shares and the share price changed by .37 cents between donation time and liquidation time next business day, it was a difference of $35.10... not something I personally would be comfortable hand-waving away as in the noise. Perhaps I hassle too much, but I digress.
Anyway, I realized that what was happening was that this was an in kind donation (after reading the following: https://www.bpmcpa.com/portalresource/Nonprofit-In-Kind-Donations_09062016) and as such not really well-suited to the normal income account I use for donations... I created a new account in the chart of accounts to capture "in kind donations"
Then in "Sales" under "products and services" I created a non-inventory type of item and named it "Donation in kind" and selected that in-kind donations account as the default income account for that product.
Next I created a sales receipt for the initial value of the donation of the shares. Created a new payment method called "Securities".
Set "Deposit To" to the TD Ameritrade asset account
Added a line for the in-kind donation product, qty of 130 shares at the donated rate. Class = unrestricted funds (not time-or use restricted due to a grant or anything)
Next the regulatory fee paid at time of sale, the sales commision at time of sale, and the realized gain were handled by a journal entry.
Next the paper statement fee was another journal entry a day later.
And then I created a transfer out of the asset account. And then went to the checking account and matched it to the transfer.
And Bob's your uncle.
I deviated from what you suggested but your comments were helpful to me in getting it sorted. Thank you.
