We built https://wallmine.com/portfolios that can import a Google Finance CSV. The stock search/screener can filter stocks listed on US, Canadian, and international exchanges. Happy to hear your thoughts.
Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
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Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
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When did Yahoo throw out their finance site? https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/
They didn't. No idea where the parent is coming from on that. It still functions much the same as it has for the last 15 years and still provides real-time quotes, proper financials, news, press releases, charts, etc.
They did eliminate their API.
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#93Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co , a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.) I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and eve…
It needs a few things that I liked about GF:
1) If I click a different period in a chart, it should show me the different in price over that period as a %. I want to be able to see the chart for the last 6 months and be told what % the price changed.
2) It needs options chains.
Some small tweaks would also be nice:
1) The news line length is basically unreadable. 2) Font size is too small. Really hard to read the site.
But overall I like it.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#94Google Finance was a free site if I remember. If a consumer expects a level of service without offering a payment, any pains the consumer has are entirely their fault. If it was a paid service however, the consumer should control (via a contract or terms of use) what will happen when something goes wrong. If anything, people should thank Google for offering their service free of charge.
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#95> When we combine this with Google’s destruction of millions of person-years of (part-time) work in Picasa, is the only reasonable conclusion that Google has re-hired Marissa Mayer?
Huh?
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Hi Daniel, neat site and I'm really happy someone is taking this on! As the OP noted, the killer feature for me to choose GoogleFinance (GF) above all other "free equities tracking websites" [1] was its portfolio. I've just tried to see if your site addresses those pain points and it doesn't - but I think you're halfway there. What OP's "hypothetical portfolio" means is basically the tracking of a whole set of select…
> What OP's "hypothetical portfolio" means is basically the tracking of a whole set of selected equities (so in your site's case: the performance of everything within a watchlist, including a graph visualizing it plus all the common features like comparing that portfolio-graph to that of the Nasdaq, Dollar Index, BTC ...). [2] > GF's UI was horrible, but they allowed to create endless amounts of those portfolios, whi…
I think Excel would be the best tool for that type of analysis, not an app.
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#97I switched over to Yahoo Finance. Works pretty well, the UI especially on the phone leaves some to be desired but it gets the job done.
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#98As long as Google reports 90% of the revenue from a single stream (Ads), anything else is a pet project that can be canceled or left to rot since there is no strong incentive to keep working on it. I try to back up whatever work I do on any Google service. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me -> Google graveyard for more info: https://www.lifewire.com/google-graveyard-products-1616198
Ads for google probably is monetization schema now days, and not single stream of revenue. Stream is likely very diversified: search, youtube, mobile search, maps, AdSense, AdMob, shopping. So, they have incentive to try to build new product and monetize them using Ads, it just doesn't always work, and they shutdown products/features.
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There's a caveat there; Google is very incentivized to keep around any service on which it can display those ads! Gmail isn't going away any time soon in large part for that reason.
Does Gmail show ads? I had the impression that was not the case now.
Another question is if gmail content is source of targeting data.
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#100It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?
Through Google Spreadsheet you have access to many of the same underlying functions for finance, like quotes, financials etc. I have always kept portfolio tracking through the spreadsheet, which in addition offers more powerful functionalities when it comes to numerical computations.