Monday, July 30, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Want to know how your favorite stock is doing each day? Now you can! Google Calendar and Google Finance have teamed up to provide daily stock quotes.
Try searching for your favorite stock symbol in Calendar:
You will then be able to able to see the close price as an event each day.
9 comments:
This sounds great Dave. I also have a suggestion : I would like to set up investing meetup groups (similar to http://ibd.meetup.com) on Google Calendar; is it possible to do that ? Here is my vision : With good stock commentary-authoring capabilities added to Google Finance (as per my comment in a previous post), users will be able to collaborate as investing groups, and even meet, or have virtual meetings. So if Calendar can help to (a) search for such investing groups (ie folks who invest using methodologies similar to mine), (b) setup meetings etc (similar to www.meetup.com on Calendar, that will be great.
By the way, this event organization should be good for Calendar in general (ie aside from investing meetups). www.meetup.com has made some success here, but it does not seem to have the outreach; secondly, its a premium service(ie one needs to pay for it.)
Thanks, Avinash
umm i tried it for TXU & got 26 different calendars none of which had the closing price (most were for corporate events such as release of quarter earnings or stockholder meetings) so I then tried it for goog as provided in the example - the same thing no closing prices just events and random personal calendars. What am I doing wrong?
Rogue
Can I set this to happen weekly rather than daily?
By the way, this reminds me: free alerts (on volume, stock price, ect) would be game-changing.
And, again, I need to be able to change the way my portfolio is listed. I want to be able to put one portfolio on top one day and another the next day. I also want to be able to add and take away stocks without clicking several times. Also it would be nice to be able to look at how much all my portfolios add up to, and what my total gain and loss percentage is.
Yesterday I set up my dad's portfolio on Google, and we were somewhat disappointed to find that only things with ticker symbols can be added. He wanted to put in a limited partnership that he was in.
Oh, and I noticed that you added Dividend, Yield, Shares, and Inst. Ownership. These are nice but not really necessary. EPS growth and PEG would be much more helpful. Perhaps you could add a button that let us look at all the interesting numbers, but for now I would focus on getting the numbers that you do have right.
Again, I urge you to reveal the numbers or at least the method you're using to calculate things like the P/E.
By the way, the Google News alert service is handy for investors, but we can't put strings into quotes, and thus it doesn't pick up the stories that we want. It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to tweak it so that it looks for strings as well as just individual words.
Hi Rogue,
I'm Ben, and I work on the Google Finance Support Team. I wasn't able to reproduce the error you encountered when you tried to add some stock tickers to your calendar. I'll walk you through the steps I took when it worked for me just to make sure we're in sync.
1. From your home Calendar screen, type your desired ticker symbol into the search field at the top (I used GOOG).
2. Click "Search Public Calendars."
3. Look for a result that says "Google Finance Calendar for [company name]" and click "Add to Calendar."
4. Click "Back to Calendar" on the top left of the same page.
I'll check back here to see if you're still encountering this issue. But for further assistance with this or future questions, I encourage you to visit our brand new online help center at http://www.google.com/support/finance. We're always striving to provide quick and easily located answers to our users' most common questions, and we'd love to know what you think of it.
-Ben
thanks for the reply Ben,
I was already doing what you suggested when it wasn't working. I finally had the brilliant idea of changing my language in settings from English UK to English US and it then worked (my country was always United states) so you have to be in the US and select English US for this to work.
has this feature been withdrawn?
I search the public calendars for 'GOOG' but do not get a valid google finance ical formatted-calendar back...
Please respond! Was hoping to do some neat stuff with this - or is there anyother way to get historical prices via gdata?
I cannot get the 'events' from my Google Finance Portfolio to appear in my Google Calendar (unless I add them one at a time).
I can get a seperate 'publc' portfolio calendar to "appear", though the events do not show on it!
Any help is much appreciated.
I eventually want to use the sync to have events from my watched companies (in my finance portfolio) to appear automatically in Outlook). The sync application works fine but I cannot get the events form the google finance portfolio into my google calendar
Does Google Finance allow you to set price alerts on stocks?
I would really like to see an email or text alert (although for my purposes email is all I need) for when a stock hits a predetermined price. Say I want XYZ at $4.80, and want an email when the stock hits that price. If you could team up with the GMail team to make this happen that would be great!
Also if this feature already exists I apologize for wasting time but I can't seem to find it, if it does exist.
Thanks,
oppy1984
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