Comments on: Old Habits Die Easy

By: Stefan Hayden

Stefan Hayden — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m constantly amazed at how fast google finance loads. I’m not a power user of either though so I don’t know what features each do and don’t have.

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Log a bug. File a complaint! Indeed, that would piss me off too. Eventually enough people on flickr complained about the same thing, so go for it :)

By: Daniel David

Daniel David — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I guess its easy since they are my brokerage, but I always use E*Trade to check my stocks. Gives me all the stats I need and you can even manage loans and savings accounts, if you have them. I’m sure the login would be much more of a pain though.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That sucks. What happens if you don’t log in every 24 hours?

By: Dave S.

Dave S. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aha, so it’s not just me! That was almost the only change I really noticed of the redesign, along with the drop-downs menus. Not exactly the most stunning redesign I’ve seen.

I coincidentally just liquidated my brokerage account, so I’m in the market for a fresh… everything. I’m really digging Google’s charts, but I haven’t tried managing a portfolio with it yet. I’ll be watching this one for more suggestions.

By: Sam M

Sam M — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There is always the option of quicken, which is what I use. If you are using three computers though, this isn’t a good option. To tell you the truth when I’m not using my windows box for testing it really only serves as a quicken box because my mutual fund doesn’t sync with quicken for mac.

By the way, what are you doing with the $97 you just got from dreamhost? heh.

By: chris sivori

chris sivori — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One vote for MSFT Money for tracking investments although Quicken probably works in a similar way. Nice to see your annual ROI, Gains, etc.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Even worse… I’ve been using Excel’s ‘Import Web Data’ ability to read the tables from Yahoo Finance pages to track my portfolio in a custom spreadsheet… of course, I should have expected that if the page layouts changed, my spreadsheet would break. Here’s to planning ahead! Luckily, it’s a relatively quick thing to go in and re-map the tables.

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Damn, if only we (NetworthIQ) had that part of our site implemented. I’d tell you to use it. It’s in the plans, but we haven’t gotten to it yet. It is good to know there is room for an alternative.

By: Mike Henderson

Mike Henderson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Do I sense finance.newsvine.com coming in the near future? ;)

By: Rob Goodlatte

Rob Goodlatte — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with Mike Henderson – a Newvine stock tracker would be sick.

I’m a big fan of Google finance. It does a really good job of integrating news items into the stock history, although it sometimes throws in some odd news picks. I also have used TD Ameritrade (formerly Ameritrade, then formerly Datek on account of mergers), and I really like how comprehensive the portfolio view is – but I think you have to be investing with them to have access to those tools.

By: sean coon

sean coon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

give it 6 to 9 months and you might be happy with what thestreet.com will be offering…

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google Finance is great. They have everying, It is very easy to use and you can “buy and sell” stocks as much as you want to see how you would do if you used real money.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I also have started using Google Finance for a quick snapshot. You can edit a portfolio that contains all of your stocks, at the various share prices where you got in. And that charting thing they have is great. The page loads very quickly.

I still look at Yahoo! Finance, but only when I’m curious certain data that aren’t included no Google, like the current bid/ask spread of a particular stock, or the dividend/yield.

By: Perry

Perry — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Re: E*TRADE, If you use Safari, E*TRADE is one of the few sites that Safari won’t automatically fill in your login data for (via keychain). Very annoying! OTOH, E*TRADE has nice watchlists you can create, view and export. I export mine daily (or every few days) and run a FileMaker script to update everything in my accounts (a set of FileMaker files). I’m sure Yahoo or Google have more or less the same features so I imagine it’s just picking one that you are the most happy with. Nothing lasts forever (or even a long time) on the Internet. What makes you smile today will make you frown tomorrow, and vice versa.