I appreciate all the assistance in handling this matter. Since I have the identical investment in Ameriprise as in Schwab, I checked to see how the former dealt with this information. They did not report it ! Only TD Ameritrade and Schwab brokerages reported this information as "gains." Then I went to the website for the I-silver investment where I read that the investor was not responsible for reporting these gains. According to the de minimus rule, brokerages would not have to report these "gains" (actually losses) since the investor received no benefit for the transactions.
The various work-arounds suggested in this forum essentially reduce the amounts to 0 which is one way to satisfy the TT requirement that amounts be entered.
Rather than selling my shares, I may simply transfer them to a brokerage which employs the their correct treatment. I am not a CPA, but this commonsense approach seems adequate and may save a lot of spread sheets.
