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“Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by mywittyname »

coldcode wrote: post #32

Funny thing is they used to have interactive charts without Flash. But then I've always felt the janitorial staff worked on google.finance. When companies go out of business or merge they stick around in the site for months sometimes. Or ever try the stock screener? What an unsmiling pile of poor. Yet they have the data and the horsepower to do amazing things with it, but since it apparently makes no revenue, its not…

Google doesn't have an public finance API to use for creating a better product, do they?

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by r721 »

underyx wrote: post #5

A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.

>Portfolios deprecation information:

https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448?hl=en

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by cm2187 »

Fiahil wrote: post #8
BerislavLopac wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations for a better alternative?

Yahoo Finance

And what strikes me as a finance professional is that I can get live stock prices from the free yahoo finance website, whereas my expensive bloomberg terminal only has 15min delayed stock prices...

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by eps »

muleaga wrote: post #23
BerislavLopac wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations for a better alternative?

Teletrader Public Webstation http://www.teletrader.com (full disclosure, that’s the company I work for)

15 min delay on intraday quotes :-/

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by Okvivi »

I built those charts on Google Finance. At the time (10 years ago) there was no better alternative for building interactive charting in browsers.

After I left Google Finance I feel that the team has attempted a few times to remove Flash, but I don't know why they didn't succeed.

Others on this thread are probably right - finance is not enough of a focus for Google, only so many engineering hours, better spent on other parts of Google Finance (more, better and cleaner data) than on replacing something that works well enough.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

Okvivi wrote: post #46

I built those charts on Google Finance. At the time (10 years ago) there was no better alternative for building interactive charting in browsers. After I left Google Finance I feel that the team has attempted a few times to remove Flash, but I don't know why they didn't succeed. Others on this thread are probably right - finance is not enough of a focus for Google, only so many engineering hours, better spent on othe…

Google probably has more engineering hours than any other company in the world. I bet they could manage it!

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by ben_utzer »

muleaga wrote: post #23
BerislavLopac wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations for a better alternative?

Teletrader Public Webstation http://www.teletrader.com (full disclosure, that’s the company I work for)

Selecting a nation will change automatically language. That's bad. Especially for Switzerland.
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