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Mateu: Portfolios on the London Stock Exchange Website

nospam@example.com (Mateu) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:35:27 +0000

Not sure that either site supports UK stocks, but Morningstar.com and SmartMoney.com both provide automatic credit of dividend receipts. I've used the Morningstar site, and it has style faults, but at least it knows of dividends. I haven't used SmartMoney, I'm just going off what they claim here: http://www.smartmoney.com/tools/?nav=dropTab

adéu,
Mateu

prasad: Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance

nospam@example.com (prasad) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:17:13 +0100

You can use Google Data API to retrieve data from Google finance and place it in your site.

Anonymous: Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance

nospam@example.com () — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:44:42 +0100

Found the solution here:

http://phpstockportfolio.com

Works like a charm.

Richard: Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance

nospam@example.com (Richard) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:28:49 +0100

Google portfolios don't allow you to enter 1m shares or more. Also I can't find a number of Mutual Funds.

Jackson Pauls: Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance

nospam@example.com (Jackson Pauls) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:02:42 +0000

Other than regularly copying the data yourself (by hand or using some custom script) I can't think of anything.

C. Vadnais: Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance

nospam@example.com (C. Vadnais) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:26:35 +0000

Do you know of any way to put the portfolio information on a personal webpage?

I want to show a portfolio on a page, but I want it to update like it does on Yahoo's servers.

I have been looking for a way to do this, and am not married to the idea of using Yahoo. I jsut thought it would be the easiest.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

carl: MarketWatch, I can't use You

nospam@example.com (carl) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:17:49 +0000

Maybe this is why News Corp are so keen to get a foot in the door at Yahoo. I could see a lot of people in the financial services arena getting very excited about the technology transfer that could happen.

Chris Malumphy: Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance

nospam@example.com (Chris Malumphy) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:48:34 +0000

Check out http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/06/wikinvest-to-add-unique-comp-data-for-stock-research/

Chris Malumphy: Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance

nospam@example.com (Chris Malumphy) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:22:08 +0000

I use Yahoo to get quotes and view simple quote charts, but I haven't come across a service that is much fun to use or that provides the information I went in any truly useful form. For instance, without going into it too deeply, I generally want to know just a few simple things: the current quote, a history of the high/close/low, by month, quarter or year, and the associated quarterly and annual sales revenue, earnings, p/e, p/s values. This kind of stuff should be in one simple table for each stock. I shouldn't have to go from page to page to collect it. AND, I should be able to put 2 or 3 stocks side by side for quick comparisions of this data.

I agree that porfolios inability to add dividends is annoying. I also find it bothersome that the systems don't automatically make adjustments when a company changes its stock symbol (ie Sun Microsystems switching from sunw to java. That should be automatic. Portfolios should also automatically update following stock splits or reverse splits.