Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 7:51 PM
We've gotten a lot of great feedback and suggestions on how to improve our charts. In response, today we're unveiling an updated UI as well as some new tools. The new chart UI makes it easier to compare stocks, indices and even mutual funds. In the "compare" tab, we provide some suggestions on what you might like to compare a stock with, such as industry competitors or general market indices. Or feel free to add your own stock, index or mutual fund.
In addition, we have a bunch of new features to help analyze public companies. First, you can now "link to chart" with all of your settings preserved. For example, take a look at this 2-year comparison between Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) and S&P 500. Copy and paste the link from the "Link To Chart" tab, then send a link to your friend or include it in your blog.
Another feature we've recently added is support for logarithmic scale, which is extremely useful when viewing charts that have large changes in price. Just compare the 10-year chart for i2 Technologies Inc (ITWO). Without logarithmic scale, the current behavior of the stock is hard to see.
Linear chart:
Logarithmic chart:
In the comments section, please let us know what you think of these additions as well as what other chart features you would like to see.
25 comments:
Pleeeease use the HTML [label for=''] tag so that I can click on the labels for Logarithmic or Linear without having to click on the radio button itself.
Thanks for the update. Please add Bollinger Bands. And the ability to preserve that view as our default setting. Also the ability to set our own default time frame.
Hi Rich, thanks a lot for noticing that, you are right.
We fixed the Linear/Logarithmic selection and the change will be publicly visible in about two weeks.
Just wanted to say...good job!
Thank you so much for the updates, however the addition of a stock sorting options such as searching by recent changes or Dividend dates and annual reports. These would be fantastic additions to make the market open to individual investors.
this may be a dumb request - but is there an API for the finance charts? I was thinking that this chart could be used for so much more than just stocks.
Love the compare function - I wish it did even more stocks! I like to compare my entire porfolio so I can see how all my stocks have done compared to each other.
I really love the Google Finance UI for 99% of stocks, but I have some Nintendo ADR which only updates once a day, or once a week, it seems to be a bid random.
The chart has problems showing the most recent update to the Nintendo stock. I'm not sure but it seems like the problem is that the stock updates are not regular, sometimes they come every night,sometimes they are once a week. anyways these smaller updates dont seem to show up on the graph, you can only see a more macro view of the month or just the current price of that day.
Candlesticks.
Candlesticks.
Candlesticks.
ted H said...
"this may be a dumb request - but is there an API for the finance charts? I was thinking that this chart could be used for so much more than just stocks."
Me too. Please tell us.
How can I save a chart from Google Finance)
Thanks.
- add labels to finance? in addition to multiple portfolios..
- when comparing 2 or more charts, keep news articles visible for the main stock; this could be useful when trying to compare a stock to an index
- any plans to add graph compare tools over log()? e.g. difference, product, etc.
- show all (or at least the general number of) news articles at each zoom level -> one can miss very relevant articles if not zoomed into right resolution...
-> Tnx, keep up the good work.
The prices of mutual funds used to update at the end of the day, but now seem to be fluctuating throughout the day. Is this a bug, or a feature? :)
Are you having a prblem with the porfolios , Normally whne you click arrow up or down it put the biggest gainers down to the biggest losers in order and visa vera if you double click on the arrow key . Today its not working ?? Are you aware of it? ( thats meant as a Google Tech person question)
Yup, we are aware of sorting issue with portfolios and working on a fix.
Google Finance Team
Thank you for all the features.
Here is one thing I'd like to be able to do: track crude oil prices in Euros. That could be achieved as a combination of new features:
- ticker symbols for commodity prices such as crude oil. This should be a "current" price with a permanent symbol, not the monthly futures that are available on most sites.
- support for currency exchange rates in the comparison charts.
- an option to plot the ratio of two quotations in comparison charts.
I have not seen this on any other finance website and it sounds like a simple and powerful facility to add...
Many variables on ALL Canadian stocks (traded on Toronto Stock Exchange)are N/A.
Example:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=TSE%3ATD
The above is TD bank, aka Toronto Dominion Bank.
Dividend: N/A
Yield: N/A
From the stock exchange website:
http://www.tsx.com/HttpController?GetPage=DetailedQuotePage&SelectedSymbol=TD&RowNumber=1&DetailedView=DetailedPrices&Market=T&QuoteSymbol_1=TD&QuoteSymbol_2=&QuoteSymbol_3=&QuoteSymbol_4=&QuoteSymbol_5=&QuoteSymbol_6=&QuoteSymbol_7=&QuoteSymbol_8=&QuoteSymbol_9=&QuoteSymbol_10=&QuoteSymbol_11=&QuoteSymbol_12=&Language=en
Indicated Dividend Rate: 2.36
Dividend Yield: 3.916
Dividend Timing Indicator: Q
Gold-Silver Index Quote? For the life of me I can't find the Philadelphia Gold and Silver index quote/chart within Google Finance. It is usually listed as XAU but is not listed as such here. The XAU is the "Dow Jones" for Gold Stocks and quite important in this environment. Thanks!
Any plans on making this chart feature take into account mutual funds distributions? Without it, you're getting a misrepresented graph.
Thank you for the updates, useful and relevant analytical tools on finance.google.com has certainly come along way over the last year. I believe the option to include stocks with a Market Cap of < 1B (in the Gainers and Losers part of the Home Page) would be a spectacular addition, especially if you could put a range on it i.e 50m - 500m for us riskier penny stock trader types. I imagine that this, along with Candlestick charts as previously mentioned above, would be an anticipated add on to google's features on this truly remarkable site.
I agree vigorously with Tom about the inclusion of distributions - or at least the option to include them, in order to view and compare the total return of a stock or fund. There's a reason that the SEC requires the inclusion of distributions in the 1, 3, 5, and 10 year standardized data for funds. Especially in asset classes that have significant dividends, looking at only the change in price is useless. It amazes me that "total returns" is not an option on any major charting site. To compare two stocks/funds (e.g. DLS and DISVX) to see how well they track each other in total returns, I end up putting them in the M* portfolio tracker tool (which can account for dividends and capital gains distributions), with an equal $ investment at some point in the past, and looking at what proportion of the present portfolio they make up. This is a giant pain in the butt, and doesn't give any information about the intervening correlation between the securities. Obviously you have the distribution data, since you can plot the distribution events on the charts - why not just implement the ability to simulate reinvestment of those distributions?
So far I only see line chart. Is there a way for us to change the setting so that it can display in candlestick chart format?
Thanks
Agree iwth previous post to add the ability to track commodity prices, such as oil and gas prices.
please have a candlestick option this would be ideal.
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