New Portfolio Enhancements.
Tags: HotJobsSeptember 11, 2008 on 1:44 pm | 9 Comments
While My Yahoo! can’t control the direction of the market, we want to make tracking your stocks a little more pleasant.
We’ve recently made some improvements to the Stock Portfolios module:
- We replaced the symbols for major market indices with the indices’ names. Bye bye, ^SPC. Hello, S&P 500.
- We made the price change and percent change easier to read, replacing the graphical arrows with standard + and – symbols. This should also make the data print properly and work with screen readers and other assistive devices.
- We’ve given you more control by adding a Preferences panel. If you don’t need the price change and percentage change columns, you can now hide them to reduce clutter. And if you have more than one portfolio, you can determine the order they are displayed on your My Yahoo! page. Click on the “gear” icon at the top of the module to see these new settings.
- If you set upper and lower limit indicators for a symbol, an indicator appears to the left of the current price when the stock is above or below your limits. In the example below, PHO has fallen below my lower limit of 20. Time to buy?
Tip: To set upper and lower limits, click on the “Edit” link next to the name of your portfolio. This will take you to the “Edit your portfolio” page. Towards the bottom of the page, in “Step 4: Advanced Features”, you can indicate which extra information you’d like to track, then click on “Enter More Info” to input the information.
Not using the Stock Porfolios module yet? Click here to add it.
Eric
My Yahoo! Product Manager
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How can you upload personal pictures onto your “myyahoo” page?
Thank you so much for continuing to support Stock Portfolio module – it’s the best out there and the reason I stick with My Yahoo. As a user of stock alerts for more than 5 years it’s a great relief to see this finally put back in.
Do you think you can streamline the ability to edit the stock alerts? Currently one has to hit “Edit” then “Enter More Info”. Maybe one link next to the Edit to go directly to editing stock alerts? If you think about it, that’s one screen that most people will be using daily (to update) so it should be easily accessible.
Thanks,
Gavan
Hi…..
I was learning your latest stuff about setting up a financial page from your tutorial, and there was one section offering a subscription to get stock information automatically for about $10/month, with one month as a free trial. Please don’t hold me to those details.
Anyway, now I can’t find that information again. Any ideas? Help!! Don
I appreciate that it is now an option whether or not to display stock prices and percent changes. But why doesn’t the column shrink when I turn one of them off? Instead, the remaining columns just spread out to fill all the available space. Maybe I’m missing something, but it would be nice if the entire portfolio section was narrower.
And FWIW, I still prefer the old My Yahoo. It was much snappier. I know there’s no going back now, but in the future it might be better to check with your users before rolling out an entirely new version that nobody asked for. Yeah, I’m still a bit peeved about it.. LOL
fantastic!
Since the update, my quotes are no longer displayed on tmy home page. How can I make that happen?
Regarding the my yahoo stock portfolio, in the past week or so I have noticed that the “price change” percentage is no longer correct. Stocks are up but the price change shows down and the amount of the change has no bearing on the opening price of the stock. It’s really bothering me that the information I’m looking at is not accurate. Has anyone heard what the problem is?
I’d like to be able to see more detail available on the yahoo stock module than just the current day price and pct change. I understand you can get that by going to Yahoo Finance, but I’d like to see more (like hold gain $ and pct) in the initial my yahoo module. Can this be done or is it something that Yahoo would consider adding?
when you go into the indiv my yahoo stock portfolio under the “Detailed” view, it no longer lets you change the timeframe for the small stockchart on the right. Mine is stuck with a 5 day chart and I want to switch it back to a 1 year chart.