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Friday, March 12. 2010
CNN Money Ditches Portfolio Services Posted by Jackson
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CNN Money, which we briefly covered a while ago, will downsize its functionality in a few days. They will offer a simple watch list, without the ability to manage an online portfolio. Here's their message to subscribers:
On March 15th, CNNMoney will replace the current Portfolio Tracker with an easily accessible and customizable My Watch List feature. My Watch List will enable users to track relevant data on stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. As part of this replacement, CNNMoney will no longer offer site visitors the ability to track the number of shares and commissions for holdings. This is probably all for the best, given that on previous inspection the services they offered were rated "useless"... Friday, October 23. 2009
Show us the Transactions! Posted by Jackson
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Both Google Finance and Yahoo! Finance can record one's portfolio transactions.
Both also graph share prices with markers for events such as dividends and splits; even news items in Google's case. Why don't they also show events that are relevant to the individual investor? Like when one has bought or sold shares? A green dot for buys, a red dot for sells, and voilà: one instantly gets an idea how good one's market timing is. C'mon Google. C'mon Yahoo!. You already have the data, now show us the transactions! Monday, September 21. 2009
Disable Automatic Dividends in ... Posted by Jackson
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Although not widely advertised, Google Finance have added the ability to disable the new automatic dividends feature on a portfolio basis. The announcement is buried in the comments on this Google Finance Blog post:
The feature can be used on a per-portfolio basis from your 'Edit portfolio' tab. The checkbox to enable and disable it can be found over the 'Save changes' button. As you can see from the other comments, this was by popular request... Overall, the deployment should have been smoother with this checkbox present from the start; still kudos go to Google Finance for listening to their users - even if that simply means keeping their product usable. Wednesday, September 9. 2009
Portfolio Poll 2008-2009 Posted by Jackson
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I've closed the first Online Portfolio poll, check out the archive for full results. The poll asked which website you use to manage your portfolio.
Yahoo! Finance came out on top with 18 out of 70 votes, closely followed by Google Finance with 14. Hats off to Yahoo! Number 3 spot went to "A different website", so I've just started a new poll with a few more options. If there's a site you use that's not one of the options, please let me know in this post's comments. Honourable mentions go to MSN Money, AOL Money & Finance and MarketWatch. I'm planning to run the poll yearly, so if you answered the last poll, don't hesitate to answer the new poll in the column right of this page. Wednesday, September 9. 2009
More on Splits and Dividends in ... Posted by Jackson
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09:06
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With regards to Google Finance's new automatic split and dividend functionality, it seems that the number one request from users is "How can I turn this off?". The Google Finance blog has quite a number of comments to this effect, with few in favour of the changes.
The update messed up the portfolios of those who had manually inserted dividends as cash entries. This is understandable in that Google Finance wants to automate this process, and from an engineering standpoint it's easier to have one way of doing this rather than have several options. Also, in my opinion, the fix is acceptable: deleting the manual entries. And that would be fine, if Google Finance's dividend tracking actually worked. Some examples of complaints given: for UK and Hong Kong stocks, Google Finance apparently can't tell what currency, denomination and tax deductions to use; it doesn't work for accounts that automatically re-invest dividends or fractional shares; it will count splits and dividends from before shares were actually purchased... The response from Google Finance so far isn't that great, look for "Google Finance Guide Laura" on the blog comments page to see it. Let's hope they get their act together, and sort out this long-awaited, but half-baked update. |
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