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Re: Ask HN: review our new thing!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar over here: tried "IVV" but didn't get the ETF I expected

At the moment we're only doing FTSE 350 (London) and S+P 500 (US); we'll be adding more stocks, instruments and ETFs soon. What ones would you all be most interested in?

In addition to ETFs, I would also like to be able to add mutual funds. Specifically, those offered by Vanguard.

Re: Ask HN: review our new thing!

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I went to all the trouble of creating an interesting test portfolio before finally getting told that this tool proves useless to me because it uses Flash. Please at least say up front that you require Flash, so I don't waste my time. Better yet, just like you created an impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML, please consider making an impressive interface for viewing a portfolio using only HTML.

Re: Ask HN: review our new thing!

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Here's my portfolio 50% Google 15% Nasdaq 53% Microsoft After 4 Years I finished with 14% increasing, going through picks of 60% and loses of %37. Good app and a very useful one. I don't invest, but I like stats and to play with numbers. The leaderboard is also useful to know combination that are successful. Just one notice: The %number are always in Red, make them in green when there's a win and Red when there's a l…

uh....118%?

Re: Ask HN: review our new thing!

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So, my first reaction, is I wouldn't use it, but I don't own stocks so that is not a surprise. My second reaction is who would use it and I get stuck there too.

The front page is not that valuable, because it is relatively easy to add up to 100. The second page where it aggregates the portfolio into one graph seems useful, but in order for a user to actually use that page, they would have to commit to a portfolio on the front page. This confusing me because I thought the whole point was to get information while you were building portfolios.

You should consider moving that graph of the combined portfolios to the front page under where you enter the stocks. This way when people are adding and subtracting stocks they can actually see what impact it has on the aggregate and then maybe your site can be useful for that.

Overall, I am instinctually concerned about your site because it seems like you have put a lot of time and effort into something that doesn't do much, which is exactly the opposite of what you want to do with a start up. Generally you want to put very little effort into a site that does a lot!

Re: Ask HN: review our new thing!

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Here's my portfolio 50% Google 15% Nasdaq 53% Microsoft After 4 Years I finished with 14% increasing, going through picks of 60% and loses of %37. Good app and a very useful one. I don't invest, but I like stats and to play with numbers. The leaderboard is also useful to know combination that are successful. Just one notice: The %number are always in Red, make them in green when there's a win and Red when there's a l…

uh....118%?

I think he meant 35, not 53

Re: Ask HN: review our new thing!

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I went to all the trouble of creating an interesting test portfolio before finally getting told that this tool proves useless to me because it uses Flash. Please at least say up front that you require Flash, so I don't waste my time. Better yet, just like you created an impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML, please consider making an impressive interface for viewing a portfolio using only HTML…

> impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML

They didn't do that either. "Sorry, Stocx requires your browser to support javascript". It's not hard to make two text fields and a submit button work, and that should have been revision one.

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