Yahoo vs. Google
Steve K
Google always does it better. So I'm looking forward to exploring the
innovations Google has come up with in this area. At first I will
tend to comment based on my experience with Yahoo. My first comments,
naturally, will relate to setting up a portfolio. It would be nice to
have a quicker way to import the data. If I could download my existing
Yahoo portfolio (or Merrill Lynch or whatever) and upload it back into
Google. Or, at least, Yahoo has a nice way of creating portfolios
where you start with a list of all the symbols. I could copy and paste
that from Yahoo into Google if it was there. Just things that would
make it easier for me (and anyone) who has existing data to try out the
new service without going through the pain of entering every single
item yet one more time. Yahoo portfolios are quite powerful and you
can customize the view, selecting from a great number of available
columns. Google seems quite basic by comparison. On the other hand,
Yahoo information is unreliable. You can see the "yield" in a
portfolio column, but the number it shows is almost always different
from what you see if you look at a summary for the symbol. This
inconsistency drives me nuts. I am _sure_ that Google would never
display inconsistent data.
Paul
especially cool, except I'm finding it quit easy to get lost. I'll see
how it works through a trading day though. The research looks easy to
navigate too, but that's what Google is used to so I'd expect it.
A few things that I'm instantly missing:
1) Sale transactions on the portfolio. I like the way that separate
perchases of a stock are stored separately and then totalled, but what
happens if I want to sell half my position in a stock, and it isn't the
same size as a lot I bought at an earlier date. This is *VITAL*. If
this can't be done while keeping perchases seperated, then fold them
into one slot. Lose that, if you have to, but you need to be able to
sell stock in amounts which don't correlate to how you bought it.
2) Cash. It's important to know how much is in your cash reserves (or
not in, as the case may be). Stocks sold turn into cash, stocks bought
depleat cash. I can have negative cash, because I've bought on margin.
Being $10M up on an account is meaningless if you borrowed $20M to get
there.
3) Average Price: When you total up how many shares and the total
invested, please print an average price per share.
That's about it so far. Nice start. Needs work.
Paul
lerner2669
transactions. I'm a dollar-cost averager and invest strongly in
dividend-paying stocks and etfs. What good is a portfolio that doesn't
allow me to track how much I paid and when? Including brokerage fees!
Other than that, it looks pretty slick.
gs9
every function listed in the above discussion is available in WSJ
portfolios. Also, perhaps I missed it, but I can't imagine using
Google Finance without the ability to create, name, and track separate
portfolios. That being said, I like what I see so far, and keep up the
good work.
precisi...@gmail.com
page and ticker information page, otherwise I will continue to use
Yahoo.
bluesinvestor
information into Excel et all?
Kaliico
YHOO quickly. They could start by adding some expanded technical
features that you see on free sites such as
stockcharts.com...hummm...imagine a hybrid combo with supercharged
search capacity or how about a little AI thrown in? Awesome!
K
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