Google Finance Blog: Tell us what you think

Tell us what you think

Monday, February 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Posted by Marianne Berkovich, user experience researcher

We’re looking to get some organized feedback from y’all about Google Finance. Please take a few minutes to take our survey and tell us about how you use it -- which features you like, which you don’t use, and a bit about what kind of investor you are.

This survey will help us learn what’s working for you and focus our energies on the areas that matter most to you. We look forward to hearing from you!

Take our survey!

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starhold said...: That survey was not what I thought it was going to be. I didn't have a chance to make suggestions about improving Google Finance!; February 26, 2008 8:29 AM
patrick said...: google finance is broken, the sorting options do not work anymore :); February 26, 2008 9:45 AM
octdisk said...: Exactly, I wanted to write what patrick just posted in the feedback. I really don't need extra features or fancier charts. I just want the basic stuff to work. The sorting capability was really neat, and Yahoo Finance portfolios don't have it. And now it's broken.; February 26, 2008 9:55 AM
octdisk said...: Full disclosure: octdisk is starhold is me I didn't try to post many times with different names. But, I just logged into blogger for the first time in ages. I guess they changed my name.; February 26, 2008 9:57 AM
Google Finance Team said...: We are definitely aware of the sorting issue with portfolios and working on a fix.

Google Finance Team; February 26, 2008 10:02 AM
patrick said...: thanks-cause this tool is sweet.; February 26, 2008 10:06 AM
octdisk said...: Fixed, yay! Now I just need to figure out what OVERALL RETURN means, and why it only shows up for a few securities.; February 28, 2008 8:24 AM
Mark said...: Hello Marianne:

Are the historical price .csv files still available for the Toronto Stock Exchange?

The download links are missing from the TSE historical price pages, but not the other exchanges.

Thanks for your time.
m; February 28, 2008 12:06 PM
Mouhahaha said...: Canadians want a way to download historical data in csv format (eg: http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=TSE:MRU.A); February 29, 2008 11:20 AM
Shane said...: I purchased a Stock for $0.065 per share. Google Finance rounds the price up to $0.07 per share. Is there a way to allow more decimal places in the portfolio?; March 3, 2008 1:37 PM
Chris said...: - Improve charting options - add intraday, add candles, studies (Bollinger bands)

- Historical Earnings for companies, including dates of earnings release, and numbers that the street was expecting; March 4, 2008 11:30 AM
Questo blog said...: I think that Google Finance is very Bad. I use all G-Tools but GFinance is very poor of contents. In our university we use Yahoo Finance or Datastream.
The only important thing in Finance is to get data series!
Datastream is the best in the world but you have to pay a lot of money (my university pays an annual subscription).
In my opinion if Google wants enter in Finance Area, it needs to make a revolution (Macro series, bond series, equity series, currency series, future etc etc). You have to make free this kind of information! This is Google Philosophy (GMAIL,Hearts,Office).; March 5, 2008 8:05 AM
Basil said...: I'd like to suggest two features:

-the ability to choose which financial stats or ratios are included above the graph

-the ability to create a ratio between financials (like free cash flow to share price) and graph it over time; March 5, 2008 8:21 AM
con3784 said...: Google Finance should also show information about the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Merc shows the crude, and precios metal markets.; March 5, 2008 9:06 AM
Vishal said...: Indian and other Asian Stocks Please .. I cannot add Indian Stocks to my portfolio. More Portfolio features needs to be added . I use moneycontrol.com portfolio manager . Its free and have awesome features .Just that their UI sucks big time .; March 5, 2008 11:30 AM
SirFelix said...: The biggest issue with Google Finance is the rounding of the stock quotes to the nearest penny. If the designers of Google Finance did some research into the history of the SEC and its rulings for stock quotes they would realize that 3 decimal places is standard. This is especially needed for smallcap stocks.; March 5, 2008 10:11 PM
JHL said...: Hello, I know that Google Finace is for Stocks and things like that, but I'm looking for a Personal Finance product as Quicken, money, etc (but better and google improved)
So I want to know if there is a Google Money or if it will be..
thanks; March 6, 2008 2:28 PM
Neil said...: I think some technical analysis features need to be added. Minimally, the ability to graph moving averages would be a good start.; March 6, 2008 2:40 PM
Louis Cheung said...: Will there be quotes for other markets like Hong Kong and other Asian markets? And how about candlestick chart?; March 7, 2008 2:01 AM
Justus said...: How about some examples in the HELP? I'm trying to add a "Sell" transaction and every choice results in "Not enough quantity for this transaction".; March 7, 2008 6:17 AM
octdisk said...: GLITCH: I tried to edit the Shares and Cost of two portfolio entries, and and the edit did not take.; March 7, 2008 6:36 AM
Timothy said...: The Google Finance site looks nice and the charts are superior...I just have to dream about a real time feed where I can customize the screen data and get my information from Google instead of Yahoo Finance. Many others have commented thoroughly on what needs to be included - if I may add to the list briefly - an option to get moving averages and range from highs/lows - if Google Finance was comparable at least, and vastly superior and more comprehensive utility at best when compared to Yahoo Finance...it would draw a lot more people like me into the Google space.; March 7, 2008 7:55 AM
Raveem said...: My previous query still hasn't been answered (Ayan).

Let us say the exchange rate is £1 = $2 and I buy some Apple stock on 1Jan8. I buy 10 shares at $2 each. I have paid £10 therefore. Let us say I sell on 1Feb08 when the stock price is still $2, but the exchange rate is now £1 = $1. In real life, I get £20 from the sale, £10 profit. If I depended on Google's terribly truncated facility, I woud, apparently, be making zero. Allowing the choice of currency for each purchase is therefore a *must* and I don't see why this even has to be demanded.

I simply cannot believe a Google employee (Ayan) actually tried to justify this lack of basic functionality by portraying Google's deficiency as a "feature".; March 7, 2008 8:31 AM
Paul said...: Candlesticks
Candlesticks
moving averages
ability to draw on charts
Candlesticks
futures quotes
Daily Economic calendar with up-to-date numbers releases (CPI, GDP, federal reserve moves, etc.)
Candlesticks; March 7, 2008 4:28 PM
Scaa said...: Couldn't Google buy E*trade so that we could trade through Google Finance?; March 8, 2008 6:43 AM
John Ferris said...: Can I ask a daft question? Can I use Google to show the share prices of five companies from the NY Stock Exchange on my website?; March 10, 2008 8:45 AM
TheAliMan said...: Hello!

Is there anyway to sort in which order your portfolios appear? I don't want to have to recreate them from scratch. This seems like a no brainer feature google finance should have. Thanks!; March 11, 2008 7:42 AM
Sudar said...: It seems illogical that the Top Movers section of the Google Finance never picks up GOOG. When it was the lowest weeks ago, and today when the gain is around 16%. It shows other stocks that are 11% up, but not GOOG. I would like to know why?
If this continues to happen, how can it be trusted?; March 11, 2008 8:53 AM
Help said...: Google finance was great until you removed the market blogs "blogspot" from the blog posts feature. You also have the worst customer service I have ever seen! I emailed to get an answer about the removal of my blog and it has been over a month, (4 emails) and not a single response. You have officially lost my future ad business.; March 11, 2008 7:21 PM
Yueming said...: Do you provide mutual fund historical price data download?; March 12, 2008 2:17 PM
JB said...: Another bug report.

The "download to spreadsheet" function under historical prices provides a csv file. It strips out the commas from the volume, as it should. It does not, however, strip out the commas from the high, low, open, close.

An example where it is broken: click "download to spreadsheet on this page"
Berkshire Hathaway; March 13, 2008 1:39 PM
blair said...: It would be useful if you could add your own instruments/securities and their time series data.

A plug-in architecture would also be good so one can add their own gadgets or alerts.; March 14, 2008 7:07 AM
googlefinance said...: Like people said before, your system does not allow entry in 3 decimal places which is of course how the stock market operates. because of this NO-ONE should even use it for portfolio tracking.; March 14, 2008 2:24 PM
Michael said...: I am looking for a way to send some bug reports direct to the finance developers (without posting to a public forum). There doesn't seem to be one.; March 14, 2008 9:49 PM
Zeno Muncrief said...: Candle charts are a must. I would love to see some candle options asap.; March 15, 2008 9:54 PM
MacD said...: Why would we get a message that our posts were accepted, click on the "Continue" link and our posts DO NOT appear???; March 17, 2008 8:56 AM
NFBlaze said...: I think google is wonderfully good it sometimes seems like the page is too cluttered alot at least in my portfolio sections...I wish I could personalize that section in the manner of having a certain color or symbol for each column that should alert me if a stock is up down (like what you have now with the green and red) or if I'm up or down on my cash investment basis ( like purple or blue). Basically I'd like to fix the clutter in my Portfolio section...or at least have my own ablility to customize it for easier reading like MY YAHOO! page is.

Also, I dont know why but it seems when I try to access GOOGLE FINANCE on my phone or PSP it never loads or has a problem connecting to the page....I'm not sure if there could be a smaller fastload javascript-free version for phones or PSPs like you have for Google Web...; March 17, 2008 8:57 AM
Obsolete said...: 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; March 17, 2008 5:15 PM
Don said...: It would help if someone from the Google Finance team would monitor the Google Discussion Group related to Google Finance and comment on the observations made there.

Thanks.; March 18, 2008 5:20 PM
pauluskc said...: I'd like to add Visa to my portfolio, but the system tells me that V is invalid or unavailable as a symbol. That's doofy. F works just fine. Get on the ball with adding new stocks!!!; March 20, 2008 7:21 AM
김민석 said...: It would be nice to have a section for upcoming economic indicator release schedule like the one in www.briefing.com and also a google calendar option for this.; March 20, 2008 7:44 PM
Shane said...: I just added V to my portfolio without issue. You should try again.

pauluskc said...

"I'd like to add Visa to my portfolio, but the system tells me that V is invalid or unavailable as a symbol. That's doofy. F works just fine. Get on the ball with adding new stocks!!!"; March 21, 2008 12:37 PM
dougjp said...: Repeating don's comments, yelling now to see if attention exists or not:

It would help if someone from the Google Finance team would MONITOR the GOOGLE DISCUSSION GROUP (this blog) RELATED to GOOGLE FINANCE and comment on the observations made there.

- + as obsolete said, all my stocks show dividends n/a. Yahoo also shows my dividend amounts and yield

- There needs to be a way to contact Google Finance off a link on any Google finance page (duh). "Help" is a minimal FAQ, no more, without options to proceed further.; March 24, 2008 5:58 PM
Chris said...: Plase help!

I can no longer add buys and sells to my portfolios. I just get constant 500 server errors! )The server encountered an error and could not complete your request. If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.)

Any ideas????; March 25, 2008 4:24 AM
Zo said...: I wish you guys would have a spam reporting button in the Discussion area.

I'm so @$#@(*& tired of seeing "Join the FOREX MARKET LOL" by jimbaldwin...@yahoo.com and "www.stockchartgrabber.com - free level II and more" by janet.harriwoo..@gmail.com (61 posts, all the same crap).

Please put an end to these spammers, they are destroying the discussions.; March 25, 2008 9:56 AM
NFBlaze said...: I think if you click besides their name where it says :show all options"

they have a tool to report as spam actually .; March 25, 2008 10:46 PM
Zo said...: Ahh, thanks!; March 26, 2008 6:23 AM
C-Knight said...: I would like to be able to take my portfolio and select several (or all) assets and import them into a chart to compare their growth rates to each other (as well as the standard indexes).; March 26, 2008 10:31 AM
Casey said...: How about email or SMS portfolio updates? I would like to get an SMS message just telling me my portfolio is up or down for a chosen duration, a day, a week, a month... or all three. There should also be more detailed updates via email that gives your the breakdown, but the SMS version should be simple totals for your portfolio changes. I'm new to investing, and look at my portfolio way too much. I would like to kick the habit and just get how my performance was on a weekly basis, or whatever duration is chosen.; March 27, 2008 6:08 AM
Nathan said...: I would like to be able to add Canadian preferred shares traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange to my portfolio. Thanks! Nathan; March 27, 2008 12:32 PM
Mike said...: The "Next" and column sorting is not working on the industry pages.

I was looking at the Retail Home Improvement industry page and it says it's showing 8 of 128 companies but when you hit the next button or try to sort it changes to say you're viewing 8 of 8.
http://finance.google.com/finance?catid=50623437; March 28, 2008 12:15 PM
Jim Bower said...: A balanced portfolio has bonds, so track bonds? Need to be able to chart an entire portfolio or set of portfolios against another, or against market indicators like the Dow.; March 31, 2008 12:23 PM
zephon said...: I have posted several comments in Google finance blog only to get a message that they will be posted after my account is approved. It has been a day now.

I thought that this was part of Google, a computer information systems company.

It seems that it is slower than the US Postal service; April 2, 2008 11:00 AM
sam said...: why change the graphs.

the new ones suck.

i notice that the old graphs are still available as a gadget.

how about allowing gadgets in google finance?; April 2, 2008 11:07 AM
aditya said...: when do we get other stock market information??? like india for example!; April 4, 2008 3:45 PM
Finn mac Cumhaill said...: I'd like to see a link on the 'get quote' page of any given ticker symbol listing the ETFs & MUTFs (together with numeric value for ticker as % of Net Assets) holding that ticker as part of its portfolio (just the reverse of what you see now when you look up a MUTF or an ETF** and look at its Holdings)

**Well, on Yahoo anyway...; April 7, 2008 12:04 PM
msundius said...: I would like to have a way to include my cash in my portfolio. that way I can see the real total....; April 10, 2008 9:48 PM
msundius said...: OH, I just saw that you can look up USD (us dollar) on google finance and it gives you a nice chart of usd to euro, but of course it doesn't have the convienient "add to portfolio" button that all the other securities have!!! how can I track my cash in my portfolio?; April 10, 2008 9:57 PM
Mark said...: 1) bug report: some mutual fund prices "disappear" and show 0.00, specifically, PRLAX and FLATX
2) i concur with the rounding to a cent, this messes with my total shares/$, specifically in the funds i manually enter in every 2 weeks that get automatically bought in my 401(k)
3) i'd like to be able to just "hide" a security after selling it instead of it still showing up in my "active" list, per se, as without the gain or loss associated with the sell my overall avg. is messed up; however, once i remove it from the portfolio all my TX are gone! perhaps someone knows how to do this already?; April 17, 2008 4:50 AM
Mark said...: p.s. overall i like google finance. it's in it's infancy relative to yahoo finance so i don't expect all the stuff yahoo finance has and since i use google tools for everything else i like to use google finance. as a software engineer by trade, i appreciate hard work when i see it ;0)

i do have to say as a chart reader i find the flash charts rather unreadable; perhaps they are just too small. maybe an option to pop open a window with a larger chart would be nice and as some have mentioned using candlesticks, or, IMHO, OHLC Bars instead of the simple line and being able to add variables such as simple moving avgs (i.e. 50 and 200-day).; April 17, 2008 4:57 AM
l said...: You should be warned if you are starting to track stock data on
Google. Their data is wrong, and there is no way to get any feedback
-- they don't support any of their services

Nearly every single stock that I check on at Google has inaccurate data. Almost every single stock has the WRONG LOW PRICE OF THE DAY on almost EVERY SINGLE STOCK I'VE CHECKED

I've checked them w/ other sites like Yahoo, & w/ the account I pay for where I do my trading )Merrill Lynch), & the data doesn't match up, & which is how I know Google is wrong, not the other sites.

How can your programs be this far off?

how can you be releasing such bad data?

What other data is bad that Google has on their sites?

Just one example:

Compare Google price info for a few stocks:

From Google
Name Symbol Last price Change Mkt cap Volume Open High Low
Agilent Technologies Inc. A 30.97 0.88 11305.36 2172704 30.63 31.3 30.09
American Commercial Lines Inc. ACLI 16.82 0.49 843.75 614051 16.67 17.08 16.22
Allergan, Inc. AGN 56.19 0.71 17175.04 2685546 56.29 56.79 55.48
AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. AHS 15.59 0.25 527.42 142798 15.54 15.76 15.34

From Yahoo:
Name Symbol Last price Low High
Align Technology, Inc. A 30.97 4/18/2008 4:01pm 0.88 30.63 31.3 30.54 2172704
Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc ACLI 16.82 4/18/2008 4:00pm 0.49 16.67 17.08 16.22 614051
Amedisys, Inc. AGN 56.19 4/18/2008 4:00pm 0.71 56.29 56.79 55.8 2685546
Amkor Technology, Inc. AHS 15.59 4/18/2008 4:00pm 0.25 15.54 15.76 15.41 142798; April 19, 2008 6:42 PM
nick said...: Adding finance events to Calendar is not working. This is highly dissappointing as it is Q1 earnings time, and now I have to go and manually add all of these events. It would be nice if you would let us know what features are stable, so I wouldn't count on them to work; April 21, 2008 11:03 AM
Yaroon said...: Everyone is so whiny on this!
Thank you for putting out a great product and a great service.
Why is Russell 2000 not indexed? .RUT is usually what I type on other market websites.; April 21, 2008 2:33 PM
balqan said...: When I opened this morning the Google finance page I was surprised to see that you have changed the layout. I have to say that usually I'm open to the new and I like to experiment with new layouts, but this time I feel that you guys did a very bad job. If I come to this page, it is to see how my portfolio is doing and to see if there are news releases related to my portfolio. but now I really have to look for this info, because the portfolio is at the bottom right of the page (the last place you would normally look when you read a web page) and the news related to my portfolio are hidden behind a tab. This is bad design, because of lack of knowledge or because of the intention to promote news. If I want to see business news in general, than I would go to google News. Please change this page back to a google finance page and don't make it another google News page. Thanks.; April 24, 2008 3:23 AM
Wes Garner said...: It would be great if Google Finance had some features that even Yahoo Finance doesn't have..
#1: RSS feeds/E-Mail updates of News data for portfolio and selected companies
#2: Stock price alerts; April 26, 2008 2:40 PM
Sudhir said...: Please revert back to last Google Finance. It was the reason why I started using it. Now it looks more like yahoo finance. Thanks!; April 28, 2008 7:58 AM
csdancer said...: I'm not sure if this is the best place to post - but does anyone know why the weekly historical prices haven't been updated since April 18th?; May 1, 2008 9:18 PM
Zach said...: The stock charts on individual stocks no longer display, just a blue blank block. I'm using IE 7 with lastest version of flash (v9). The charts do show when I use Firefox browser. These seems to have happened after the new format change.; May 2, 2008 8:00 AM
test said...: 1. Keep the user's history of daily portfolio changes % (perhaps in a cookie; don't keep $ amounts)
2. When comparing any stock (or , more interestingly, any index or ETF) it can be compared to the user's portfolio.
3. Enable sharing. This can fuel forum discussions.
4. And even be a tool to evaluate the validity of a user's opinion.; May 5, 2008 8:14 PM
B Washburn said...: I love the portfolio...but whatever you recently did, messed things up for me.

The ticker CWGIX no longer is recognized. It's one of the biggest mutual funds in the world. All the information in my portfolios for this fund was lost.

HELP!! before I go elsewhere.; May 7, 2008 9:28 AM
Monkichi said...: Same as b washburn (comment above mine), my mutual fund information disappeared...replaced by some stock quotes that I did not add to my portfolio.; May 7, 2008 12:08 PM
Google Finance Team said...: B Washburn, Monkichi

We are aware of the mutual fund recognition issue and are working actively to fix it.

Thanks for your patience,
Google Finance Team; May 7, 2008 12:18 PM
Art said...: This post has been removed by the author.; May 7, 2008 1:57 PM
snaphooks said...: Google, for the past few weeks I've been having trouble with my portfolio. After my portfolio loads, if i click anywhere on the screen it goes blank for a few seconds. What gives? It used to be fine.

Thanks,; May 8, 2008 4:53 PM
Happy Banyan said...: Most of my stocks are on an auto dividend reinvesting program. How do I change options so that I can input 0.000 stock shares?; May 9, 2008 1:41 PM
Mike Mostransky said...: I am getting the same frustrating result of a nice white screen when I click on My Portfolio and attempt to add or edit any stocks.; May 13, 2008 10:19 AM
Adam said...: It seems as though my mutual funds don't get added to the porfolio's total value. Any chance this can be fixed?; May 15, 2008 1:49 PM
Michael said...: Seriously, Google. When i click anywhere on the screen, it goes blank. I get a full white screen, that is, a totally blank screen for enough seconds to be really annoying. Can you fix that? Its been that way for months. I don't see this bug on any other website. I'm using IE7. Please help, or I'm moving back to Yahoo.; May 15, 2008 3:06 PM
Scottgfx said...: How are the news items chosen for the Google Finance pages? Today, there is a news item titled "Apple Mac OS X Leopard added to Google Desktop
GameSHOUT - 11 hours ago"

The actual link goes to a story from October of last year! It's up there just to generate more ad revenue, and works to lessen the quality of "Finance".

I've seen other instances of where news items were of dubious quality on this site.; May 16, 2008 6:16 AM
Christopher said...: When I am in My Portfolio, I would like to be able to see YTD performance for all of my investments on the summary screen rather than having to click on each one and see how it has done this year. This is very helpful for us "buy and hold" investors.; May 16, 2008 8:48 AM
Google Finance Team said...: Hi Michael,

We are aware of this issue with the portfolio page and are working on a fix. Meanwhile we would suggest using another browser.

Sincerely,
Google Finance Team; May 16, 2008 8:49 AM
msundius said...: I'd like to be able to save stock screening parameters.

mike; May 16, 2008 9:43 AM
Chris said...: I keep having trouble with 1 stock. A while ago, UGTH changed to HTM. Google didn't pick up this change (Yahoo finance told me about it though), and instead of changing my stock over to HTM, it helpfully erased my transaction history for UGTH. So, I re-copied my transaction history from Yahoo and recreated my stocks under HTM. Randomly, Google Finance decides to erase my HTM transaction history for no immediately apparent reason. It has erased the transaction history twice, three times if you include when the stock changed names. Any ideas?; May 20, 2008 12:18 PM
Spencer Thiel said...: Import portfolio doesn't work either by copying my portfolio from yahoo or from my broker's web site. It doesn't seem to take "csv" formatted text either.; May 21, 2008 7:59 AM
Royce said...: I don't mean to urge but just would like to know when it is available for asian countries(ie. Malaysia) to access for stock market price? I wish to have a brief idea at this moment. Since Google is playing an important character in attracting foreign investors for developing countries. :); May 24, 2008 8:28 AM
Bagit said...: e are definitely aware of the sorting issue with portfolios and working on a fix.

Google Finance Team

wow that was Feb. It still will not sort using a MacBook.; May 27, 2008 7:10 PM
K said...: Google should allow the option to reinvest dividends on Mutual Funds and automatically track splits in stocks. What it does now is not useful as the profits and losses are way off.; May 29, 2008 9:34 AM
gtadler said...: I cannot find the FEMEX ticker symbol on Google Finance. It is a new mutual fund from Fidelity, but other sites already have it.

Also, there is no form in help to request help for a topic that doesn't exist in the help section. It is kind of frustrating to want to simply send a help request, or even idea, and there is not method. So, I end up posting somewhere that it may not really make sense to post about my current issue.; May 30, 2008 7:58 AM
Neil said...: 1) I am retired, so about all I care about is YIELD which is not synonymus with RETURN. None of the views have YIELD as one of the fields, consequently the portfolio views are of limited value to me.

2) I only use ETFs so I would appreciate a way to limit my screens to ETFs.; May 30, 2008 4:37 PM
miggidafo said...: The zooming of the charts needs to be fixed. If my cursor is over or above the chart and I scroll down using the mouse wheel, the chart just starts to zoom in or out. It's very frustrating especially when I am trying to get to the bottom of the page. Maye allowing that feature to be turned on or off or something like that. Other than that google finance has many great aspects; June 1, 2008 9:52 AM
Ron said...: The import columnar data feature is almost great, except for the fact it doesn't accept dates. Could one of you devote some of your "20-percent time" to getting that to work? Thanks, Ron; June 4, 2008 1:53 PM
Merryclicker said...: As I was attempting to comment on one of the Financial blogs, signed in of course, when I clicked Post, I got a flashing "sign in" page, which flashed so fast I can't read it, over and over and over. When I click the back button (quickly several times to get past each of the flashing screens), it takes me back to my own google finance portfolio(s) page, signed in as I was initially. When I tried again, it faithfully reproduced itself... flashing and flashing. The financial page was for WB, the first blog on the listing.

And you need a link someplace on the google finance pages for Technical Support, so that problems can be reported, and thus fixed quickly.; June 5, 2008 6:27 AM
pookeye said...: I am having same problem as Merry in the last post, can't post a comment on the discussion board.. possible bug, keeps mentioning something about google groups.; June 5, 2008 10:26 AM
MichaelR said...: I would really like to see an option for annualized return column in Google Portfolios. Comparing stocks with different holding periods, eg three years and five years, it's more useful to do so based on annualized returns.; June 8, 2008 3:52 PM
Jeff said...: Just tried to use google finance, felt it is great and fast. I like it.

A few improvement I would like.

1. "Download to spreadsheet" can not be directly opened correctly by Excel. Yahoo finance download works great.

2. I would like the volume in the chart be much bigger than the current. It will be wonderful if the chart settings include the size and proportion of the price and volume section. (The volume is as important as the price.); June 8, 2008 11:07 PM
qwer1304 said...: Since recently there seems to be a problem with Google Finance auto-refresh function. It either starts and then randomly stops or doesn't start at all.

This is happening with FF 3 Beta 5, FF 3 RC 2, IE 6 on Win32 XP SP2 and Win32 XP SP3.

Extremely annoying!!!; June 9, 2008 10:45 PM
Maulik Bhatt said...: I would like to have added feature of portfolio alert through gmail. We can't access our broker's site at office. I would like it, if Google Finance can help with an alert for significant events like when my stock's price increases/decreases by certain percents. It should also send alert at the end of the day, for the closing price of my portfolio shares.; June 9, 2008 11:26 PM
Victorian-Persian said...: I think this 'google finace' is a great service. Since im heading into business school, it'll serve as an excellent tool to keep up with stocks while traveling or when im away from my own computer. I did find one glitch tho, that is pretty severe. If you goto gooogle>finaces>Rogers Communications Inc. (USA), if you try to open a nickname on google groups, it'll want you to sign up for it while it takes you to another page where the serious error happens. itll reload the page several times and keeps replaying it self, unless i hit stop, itll just clog up my browser history with refresh spam shratnel. thought it would be useful to point it out, if you poke around the rogers' discussion page enough someone should be able to ping it out into view.
kam; June 11, 2008 12:57 PM
Victorian-Persian said...: In an epiphany to my last post before i saw the first one, basically what i said is: what qwer1304 said. the broken refresh is very annoying. and i cant comment on Rogers Communications Inc discussion because of this problem. Hey, is google interested in any beta or program development testers? :P; June 11, 2008 1:21 PM
Dan said...: Add Futures Data and Charts! That would be helpful especially now with sky high oil prices.; June 11, 2008 6:27 PM
suske said...: I tried to fill in the survey but apparently it's already closed, hence I will post my feedback as a comment. Overall I am happy with the system but I am missing some important functionality w.r.t. evaluating how I am doing. For this it is important to know how much money I originally put in and how much it's worth now. Hence, the notion of plain cash is missing (this can probably be calculated outright from the history of transactions). However, note that by selling and reinvesting that money into another stock I lose track of what money I originally put in (which is how I would like to measure performance). I am a European user so my main currency is Euro but I also invest in USD. For currency exchanges it is important to able to put into the system what was the exchange rate in order to keep track if my portfolio performance. It would also be nice to compare performance of your portfolio against major indices in order to decide if you're better off purchasing an index rather than picking stocks yourself. It would also be nice if you're already investing a couple of years what is your annual return. Finally, exporting the history of stock prices that are not on US markets to a CSV format seems impossible. Why is that?

These are about the comments I can think of right now but overall I like the tool although it would be really useful to have the additional functionality described above. Cheers.; June 17, 2008 9:23 AM
Gerry said...: What happened to the link to historical data for various indecies?; June 17, 2008 1:34 PM
ETFInvestor said...: Unable to add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" symbol FAN as a transaction in my portfolio. I can get a quote for that symbol, however.
Thanks; June 23, 2008 10:25 AM
limeonaire said...: Hi there—I would like to be able to change the name that appears when I post comments in Google Finance threads. As it is currently, the name that appears when I create a thread or post a comment is the name that I originally created the account under, but not what I then changed that name to for privacy purposes. What can I do to make this work?; June 23, 2008 11:05 AM
Brian & Rachel, 2 kids and a dog said...: Related to some of the comments I've seen posted already, I would like to contact the google finance webmaster about erroneous content on a company. There is a fictional ticker listed with my client's company name that is creating some confusion, and I'd like to have it removed, but cannot find a way to contact Google Finance to remove it. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you!; June 23, 2008 11:56 AM
Google Finance Guide Ben said...: Hi limeonaire-
This article about nicknames might be able to help you out. Generally, you can find answers to most questions about our discussion boards by visiting the Google Groups help center.

If you're still not able to solve the problem, let us know (we can't always reply, but we'll do our best to look into the issue).

Thanks!
Google Finance Guide Ben; June 26, 2008 2:45 PM
NeuroMove said...: Why is the financial page for ZYNX (OTCBB) stuck on May 30, 2008? Musch of the data needs to be updated for this company. All information is available from SEC filings. How can this be accomplished?; June 27, 2008 7:32 AM
ETFInvestor said...: Can someone please fix the database so that I can add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" (symbol FAN), as a transaction in my portfolio.

Second request.

Thanks; June 30, 2008 9:03 AM
Nathan said...: Who do I contact to correct information on google finance? Can't find contact info anywhere. Thanks; June 30, 2008 10:34 AM
Ian said...: Why can't I add:

NYSE:FAN

to my portfolio?; July 2, 2008 8:38 PM
Vahit said...: Dear Google Team
For the most companies there is a RSS News Feed available. But for few, like Enagas, Gas Natural, Abertis or Tokyo Gas, there is NO RSS Feed. Why?; July 3, 2008 6:51 AM
NGOrphan said...: Please provide a brief description of the process through which a person is banned from a discussion group. Is there (Google) human intervention, or is it strictly a function of a threshold of "Report Abuse" hits?; July 3, 2008 10:10 AM
Davey said...: I'm tracking two different portfolios; one I imported from Yahoo and the other I built in Google. The Yahoo-built has a Performance tab available, but I can't find that same option in the Google-built portfolio. How do I find that; July 4, 2008 8:45 AM
fufufnik said...: It would be great to have an economic calendar available that can be fed to my personal Google Calendar space. One that's similar to Yahoo's econ. calendar here http://biz.yahoo.com/c/e.html; July 8, 2008 7:37 AM
Google Finance Team said...: Hi NGOrphan,

Google Finance discussion boards are moderated by real people. Every abuse report is investigated by a moderator who also checks the whole thread to understand the context under which the post originated. This is a forum specifically geared towards discussion of finance and, therefore, posts should be on that topic.

When we come across a post which violates the guidelines - http://www.google.com/googlefinance/communityguidelines.html - we will usually send a message asking the user in question to review them so that he/she can use them as a guide for their future posts. Although most users will receive a message reminding them of the guidelines, we do reserve the right to ban people at any time if we believe it is justified and/or if the user has violated the guidelines before. We also determine in good faith and at our sole discretion whether to remove any content which violates the guidelines or posting standards.

We take the banning of a user very seriously and only resort to this action when we believe it to be warranted and in the best interest of others affected by the banned user's behavior. We do not review posts for opinion, but all users are expected to follow the guidelines and adhere to our posting standards.

Thanks for your feedback and for using Google Finance Groups.; July 8, 2008 1:55 PM
Ian said...: Please fix this bug! I am clearly not
alone in being annoyed by it.

One can quote FAN (NYSE:FAN) but one
cannot add it to one's portfolio.

Doesn't Google finance approve of
wind power?; July 9, 2008 8:51 AM
gtadler said...: I was following a stock in a portfolio and I entered a transaction and the stock split, and now the portfolio is indicating that the transaction has lost 50% of its value. It would be nice to see that cleared up.
-thanks; July 9, 2008 12:34 PM
Zynex Medical, Inc. said...: I have to thank Google for fixing the financial web page on ZYNX to ZYXI.; July 10, 2008 6:49 AM
Foreshadow said...: The downloaded financial data (historical prices) doesn't coincide with the graphical data shown on Google finance.

I tested with the whole history of MSFT and graphed it in Excel (both on the same scale (logarithmic and not logarithmic)). Noticed there was some differences between what Google Finance shows and what the downloaded data shows. Especially the area I was looking at was between 1986 and 1988.

What can I do to make the downloaded data identical to what the Google graphics shows ? Why is there a difference ?; July 10, 2008 5:05 PM
Ski said...: Some transactions, even if they are properly entered do not show !!

example:

Name Symbol Last price Change Shares Cost basis Mkt value Gain Gain % Day's gain Overall Return
Potash One Inc KCL 4.47* -0.12 (-2.61%) 2,000.00 11,560.00 8,940.00 (2,620.00) -22.66% (240.00) -22.66%
Uranium Participation Corp. U 9.45* +0.17 (1.83%) 1,000.00 9,570.00 9,450.00 (120.00) -1.25% 170.00 -1.25%
Canext Energy Limited CXZ 0.83* -0.13 (-13.54%)
Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B 38.54* -0.84 (-2.13%)
Massey Energy Company MEE 78.31 +2.31 (3.04%) 100.00 $8,502.00 $7,831.00 ($671.00) -7.89% $231.00 -7.89%
Can$29,705.97 Can$26,289.13 (Can$3,416.84) -11.50% Can$163.01 -11.50%; July 10, 2008 9:14 PM
Ski said...: Vast Energy will not add up all transactions which were entered and instists that portfolio has only 5000 shares instead of 20000.!!!!
Vast Exploration Inc. VST 0.82* -0.06 (-6.82%) 5,000.00 5,033.33 4,100.00 (933.33) -18.54% (300.00) -6.62%

Transactions:
VST Vast Exploration Inc. Buy Jun 17, 2008 15000.00 1.00 (15,100.00) 100.00
VST Vast Exploration Inc. Sell Jun 27, 2008 10000.00 1.01 10,000.00 100.00
VST Vast Exploration Inc. Buy Jul 18, 2008 15000.00 0.90 (13,600.00) 100.00; July 10, 2008 9:17 PM
tinker84 said...: 1). since the survey is closed, google should remove the link offering you to provide feedback.
2). is there an easy way to report bugs? I can't find it and neither can their magnificent search engine.; July 11, 2008 7:57 AM
souzar said...: Bug Report:
Switching between 6mo and YTD in the interactive charts does not update the percent change.; July 11, 2008 1:13 PM
souzar said...: To be more clear, It can happen under different scenarios.

Click 3mo, 6mo, then YTD. It will update from 3mo to 6mo but not to YTD.

Going directly from 6mo to YTD without stopping at 3mo firsts appears to work.; July 11, 2008 1:15 PM
RationalAnimal said...: Finance Portfolios look OK so far in BETA, but if Google wants me to switch from Yahoo, they need to add an Annualized Return column to the Portfolios. It would be easy to add and I find it essential.; July 12, 2008 5:45 AM
jg said...: I have been banned for reason(s) undisclosed to me. I would like to know why and how I can get back access? I just saw the guidelines here and it seems I may have violated it twice, though ignorantly, mildly, and without feedback. I am sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your time. jhg; July 15, 2008 9:05 PM
Tom V. said...: I am trying to switch from Yahoo to Google.
I have various World Stock Indexes set up. a few will work on Google
but most will not like: ^FCHI (CAC Paris), ^DAX (DAX Germany), ^KS11 (Korea) even ^GSPC (S&P 500) as well as the Shanghai Exchange, 000001.SS. All of these work on Yahoo and Yahoo Finance.

I have tried substituting a $ or a period(.) as the beginning character, and it worked for
Japan, the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ.

Why do the others not work? Are there substitute symbols? Where can I find them? Many YAHOO symbols just do not work in your quote module or give me the wrong information or Company.

Thanks for your response.

Tom

PS: It is not a problem with my mobile device, I cannot get these quotes on Google on my desktop PC either!; July 20, 2008 9:31 AM
ETFInvestor said...: Does anyone respond to issues raised here? I have been requesting a fix that never happens. It should take all of 2 minutes to fix your database.

Please add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" (symbol FAN) to your transactions symbol database.

NOTE: If you enter FAN in the "Get Quote" field, it will show up correctly. That's NOT THE PROBLEM!

The problem is with adding the symbol FAN as a portfolio transaction.

At least one other user is having the same problem. Please fix this. This problem has been around for a while now.

Third Request.

Thanks; July 21, 2008 10:37 AM
jg said...: This post has been removed by the author.; July 21, 2008 4:14 PM
Don said...: One weakness in creating portfolios is the (apparent) inability to add bond investments. If someone knows how to add individual bonds, please contact me!; July 27, 2008 9:47 AM
jg said...: Google Finance Team said...

Hi NGOrphan,

... snip...

We take the banning of a user very seriously and only resort to this action when we believe it to be warranted and in the best interest of others affected by the banned user's behavior.

... snip...

While this may be true, I disagree that a permanent ban was absolutely necessary for whatever it is I did to piss you guys off so much. Thanks for letting me know in the form of 403 FORBIDDEN. Thanks for writing me back so promptly. Thanks for being accessible and open and honest about your completely objective policies. Thanks for helping me out.

I am an upstanding user on every forum in which I participate. Sure, I might be a pain in the butt every once in a while but for the most part I have my eye on the ball and I never succumb to completely worthless banter and arguing over nothing. When I posted a humorous link about how terrible the iPhone was (from last year, no less) I expected people to laugh. You remember laughing, right? Or have you or others forgotten what that's like.

Clearly the iPhone is a piece of shit. Remember sarcasm? Irony? Nothin, eh? Well go ask someone you know who understands irony and have them read Maddox's Best Page in the Universe on the iPhone. If they laugh, remove my ban. If they don't then tell me I'm an immature loser who doesn't deserve to post to Google Finance Discussions.

For the love of reason and all that is fair, tell me why I deserve this, please. And yes, I will write you these love letters on a weekly basis until I hear from you. Until then, sweet cheeks! Love!; July 29, 2008 12:20 PM
Tom V. said...: I commented on you screwed up quote system (YAHOO equity symbols) and have decided that you are as BAD as YAHOO!
Something elese will come along and you will be GONE!; July 29, 2008 7:22 PM
Adam said...: the stock uk:abc switched its trading mechanism a month or so ago. when it did so, google lost all prior data, and now only shows data for the last month, even though the stock has been quoted for years. Can you fit it please?; July 31, 2008 3:42 AM
caroline said...: My clients's information is way out of date in google finance. How do i delete or change the details?
Cheers
CAroline; August 4, 2008 12:00 AM
Car Insurance Article Directory said...: I am an upstanding user on every forum in which I participate. Sure, I might be a pain in the butt every once in a while but for the most part I have my eye on the ball and I never succumb to completely worthless banter and arguing over nothing.; August 5, 2008 12:16 AM
jg said...: re: Car Insurance Article Directory

Write your own comments.; August 5, 2008 4:32 AM
ETFInvestor said...: THIS IS VERY FRUSTRATING! I REALLY DON'T THINK ANYONE AT GOOGLE FINANCE CARES.

I cannot add symbol FAN to my portfolio!

Please add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" (FAN) to your transactions symbol database.

Please add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" (FAN) to your transactions symbol database.

Please add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" (FAN) to your transactions symbol database.

Please add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" (FAN) to your transactions symbol database.

Please add "First Trust Global Wind Energy" (FAN) to your transactions symbol database.

Fourth Request.

Thanks; August 8, 2008 9:28 AM
david7 said...: Can anyone at Google Finance tell me exactly how the Final Overall return percentage in the bottom right corner is calculated? It doesn't seem to work out however I try to derive it from the other totals such as total Cost Basis and Total Market Value. All the other percentages and totals seem to be right, except that one last one in the bottom right corner.

Thanks,

Dave; August 11, 2008 5:09 PM
Duke said...: Bug with pinks -

If I have 500k shares of a $0.0002 stock, and say I paid $13 in commission, it computes the cost basis as $13.

For other computations it correctly computes the current value.

A temp fix is to say that you paid $113 in commission to get the cost basis right, but that's pretty silly when it'd be better to handle it correctly in the first place.; August 11, 2008 5:23 PM
clnpwr8 said...: can anyone tell me if their portfolio accurately reflects stock splits? cause mine hasn't been doing so...do I have to manually enter the splits?; August 18, 2008 9:00 AM
Registration said...: Did anyone get a response to the March 11 comment about not being able to change the sort order of portfolios? I wish I could reorder the order my portfolios display in as well ...; August 19, 2008 8:32 AM
brad.stokes said...: I cannot add ANY new stocks to my portfolio. This seems to be a recurring issue with other users too.; August 21, 2008 5:19 PM
Pat said...: What do I need to display the charts? I see all the other information but them; August 22, 2008 12:07 PM
Ben said...: BUMP: the decimal places is critical. My portfolio is always off because I can't enter values beyond 2 decimal places. Help us out g-team!; August 26, 2008 1:00 PM
FAN said...: I can't seem to enter FAN into my google finance portfolio... I think there might be a bug in the system. The total name is: First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy Index Fund (FAN). Can someone help?; August 28, 2008 1:38 PM
mark said...: ERROR - recently all the stocks quoted in pounds in my portfolio have a cost basis of zero where as previously the cost basis accurately reflected the purchase price. I have tried to recreate the transactions but to no avail; September 1, 2008 8:29 AM
Grievous Angel said...: I would also like to highlight the same point as raised by mark. My portfolio no longer displays 'Cost Basis' and hasn't done for a few days.

The figures must still be there in the dataset as the 'Overall Return' column is correct.

I have come to rely on using this portfolio view as a quick oversight of my investments, so a fix would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Nick; September 2, 2008 12:45 AM
Rajesh said...: the charts are very basic. G-finance needs to add certain technical tools like moving averages and stochastics. Besides the option to change to candlestick.

Rajesh Jogani - Bombay - 03.09.08; September 3, 2008 12:45 AM
jagan said...: Google Finance is improving fast. Thanks to Google team. I found two bugs in the portfolio. I hope they will correct these soon.
1)While adding stocks (not US stocks)to my portfolio, I typed the company name in the stock box, it will give relevant names in the drop down, but if we type the company name more than a word, immediately it will gray the boxes of number of stocks and price. I could not able to enter the amount and number of stocks, if I used more than a word in the stock search.

2)First I choose Indian rupees as my default currency of the portfolio, but after editing some other in the portfolio, the default currency is coming back to US dollar.; September 5, 2008 6:38 AM
Audiostar said...: I desperately wish I had the option to block people in Google Finance Discussions.

There are many people that just spam, I do report them but, I know this is possible on some boards.

It really would be nice just to block the people and there discussions not show up when you login.; September 5, 2008 9:13 AM
The Hoveys said...: I have to add my 2.3 cents worth on the decimal places. I have dividend reinvestment activity that is reported in the third decimal and it is rounding to 0.00 and not importing. Please fix this one fast or you will lose a lot of people who won't bother coming back to see if you've fixed it.

PS: I love the graphs.; September 9, 2008 7:42 AM
Robert said...: Are we going to ever be able to see YTD performance on the summary page for mutual funds?; September 10, 2008 6:51 AM
andre said...: How about a simple field for each portfolio for the user to write his personal/ public notes ?
I like to track various managers recommendations over time and this would help.; September 15, 2008 5:11 AM
andre said...: Also on the wishlist, *and* simple to implement, would like to have separate cash accounts for each portfolio, so their performance can be tracked separately: commodities, stocks, bonds and currencies for example are different components of a balanced portfolio, and it would be nice to see their individual performance *as well as* their aggregated performance.
I understand you want to keep things simple, so maybe provide developers access to some features so they can write add-ons?; September 15, 2008 5:16 AM
PR said...: There are some *really bad* calculation bugs in the portfolio settings: I created a portfolio of seven stocks with current prices and assorted amounts bought at the current prices *AND SOME ARE SHOWING GAINS OF $0 (zero, correct) and %GAINS OF 590% (???)"

I suspect zero divisions by zero glitches - Please fix this !

If you cannot repeat this by yourself, here's the link to a screen snapshot. I've also captured the HTML page for reference

http://preview.tinyurl.com/Google-Fin-error
http://picasaweb.google.com/premarupa/Financial?authkey=3gs6xCZOmCg#5246237554542077554; September 15, 2008 6:32 AM
Rose said...: Editing Google Finance portfolios function has not worked in several months, and I have tried on three computers in different locations. I always get a Server Error-try in 30 seconds message. Why can this problem not be corrected?; September 19, 2008 4:02 AM
P McDaddy said...: Google
Error
Portfolio has been down for several days with the error:

Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.
If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.

Well, the hyperlink for "report" takes you to Google help where there is no place to report the problem. How about an email address or something?; September 19, 2008 8:41 PM
Desh said...: This post has been removed by the author.; September 20, 2008 4:11 AM
:: doris said...: Has anyone of you had the same problem: You enter a let's say fund, it shows on the transactions page, but in the portfolio view there is only one blue line. No numbers. Going back to the transaction page will show you that asset, with numbers. Any way to fix that?

I could not find another place to report this bug. Hope this helps.; September 21, 2008 8:22 AM
Nathan said...: I like the quick live streamer. I trade through USAA but love the way Google has their Finance setup. The one thing that I would like to be able to do is place trades through Google Finance. This way I can go to one site and get all the information I need at one time.; September 30, 2008 11:20 AM
rickoz said...: I have been unable to use the Google Finance "Import" portfolio funtion for the last several weeks. I get message "we could not import a portfolio". It worked before is there a problem now?; September 30, 2008 6:43 PM
el_jefinator said...: This has been mentioned before, but I can't add "First Trust Global Wind Energy (ETF)" (ticker: FAN) to the portfolio. I can get a quote for it, but it doesn't show up when I try to add to my portfolio.; October 1, 2008 1:02 PM
Lynn said...: Why does Market Cap show up on the iGoogle portfolio view? This is probably the very last thing anyone would put on a dashboard.
Why can't I choose what I would like to see on the iGoogle view? I switched from Microsoft. If google doesn't get a little bit more flexible, I'll switch back to MS.; October 7, 2008 8:58 AM
research said...: Is there any way I can share my portfolio (with/without all transactions) with my friends? If not, I would like to suggest this feature for future development!!

H; October 9, 2008 6:29 AM
Harshad said...: Given a time period (1 week/1 month/3 months/YTD/1 year/5 year/MAX or User defined) is it possible to get the High and Low prices (in that time period) and their respective dates (Of cos this can be found out using the chart of individual scrips, but I was looking for a more convinient way esp if I have to do it for like 50 stocks in my portfolio)

If not on the Google Finance site yet, is this possible to be done in Google Spreadsheet using the googlefinance() function?

H; October 9, 2008 6:41 AM
nishu said...: This post has been removed by the author.; October 11, 2008 5:27 PM
nishu said...: You need to make it possible to input shares to 3 decimal places as opposed to 2. Historically shares have been tracked to 3 decimal places, and mutual funds still to this day trade at 3 decimal places. With the current system I have to add a cash line item that reconciles the difference, which is a very rough and inaccurate way of doing things. If you want people to take Google Finance seriously as a tool to track and manage investments, you need to take the coding seriously and allow for more than 2 decimal places.

This just my 2 cents (pun intended).; October 11, 2008 5:28 PM
Gamut said...: Agreed. Please fix the one thing making Google Finance completely unusable... more decimal places for portfolio data! My brokerage tracks all data to 6 decimal places. Please allow me to have the numbers in my brokerage account match the numbers in Google Finance!; October 12, 2008 12:55 AM
Zibri said...: Please HELP.

My account has been banned from google finance discussion groups.
I haven't received even a warning and I really don't know what I did wrong.

Maybe EXPLAINING before banning would have been a nice thing.; October 12, 2008 6:25 PM
Trailslayer said...: How about putting a "FIND STOCK SYMBOL" link on your financial page. Not everyone has memorized the stock symbols.; October 13, 2008 8:41 AM
Zibri said...: Please UNBAN ME !
I haven't done anything wrong.; October 14, 2008 6:40 AM
Sean said...: Bug Report:

NASDAQ:TACWX is not found. The stock is TEMPLETON CHINA WORLD FUND ADV, and is found on yahoo, quicken, etc., but not on google finance. It's a bit annoying.; October 20, 2008 4:33 PM
nside said...: Vanguard funds are not updated in a timely fashion. They are usually not updated until several hours after the market closes. The Vanguard fund VTIVX hasn't been updated since 10/16...; October 20, 2008 6:07 PM
Slammy said...: Is there a way for us to report spammers, so we can clean up the boards?; October 23, 2008 7:14 AM
Redleg said...: Does anyone know how long it takes for new stock symbols to be added?

GOOGLE: Please add IGIFX (it is a new fund as of October 9th, yet Yahoo Finance has it already...)

Thanks! I'm new to online portfolio management and Google Finance, and have never used Yahoo either, but from what I see Google is a simple yet effective tool for me to manage my new portfolio. I liked how easy it was to create a simple profile.; October 23, 2008 2:01 PM
Jack said...: I'm using the portfolio in Chrome. I have some stocks I purchased for money and some I just added with zero to watch (also had some cash). It has become very, very buggy to buy and sell stocks.

Feel free to play with my "jax" portfolio if you like. I tried buying GOOG and deducting from cash. I got more shares but the cash stayed put. I sold one GOOG and the cost basis became something larger than trillions. I think you have some integer rollover issues or something :)

-Jack (jack.sankey); October 28, 2008 5:07 PM
Nancy Etchemendy said...: What I think is that I'm stupid to be using Google Finance. I have come to depend on it. Now I can't edit my portfolios. ("The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds." This has been going on for five hours.) And apparently, there isn't even a way to report this problem. Yes, it's free. Apparently, that's about what it's worth.; October 29, 2008 7:36 PM
P McDaddy said...: Nobody answers you here either, Nancy. I have the same problem. It is weird because I can edit the portfolio for one profile, but not even access another "server encountered an error". Same computer, same settings, same cookies... the problem is obviously on google's side.; October 29, 2008 8:08 PM
Nancy Etchemendy said...: Hey, P McDaddy,

With the help of a former Google employee, I just uncovered this URL:
http://www.google.com/support/finance/bin/request.py

This seems to be the place (well hidden) where you can maybe get them to fix the problem! I'm reporting it now. Why don't you, too, and maybe it'll be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Heh heh...; October 29, 2008 9:43 PM
sfnchz said...: What, exactly, am i supposed to do with a number such as: 4,377.34* ??

A "*" stuck on the end might mean a lot to google but it doesn't mean a damn thing to me.; November 1, 2008 9:42 AM
sfnchz said...: rubbish experience so far...
3 or 4 stocks missing from my portfolio..
1) look up the symbol
2) get the symbol
3) add the symbol to portfolio
4) save changes
5) Voila! No stock in Portfolio.
6) Do it again to make sure
7) Voila! No stock in Portfolio.

Yep. I can rely on this.; November 1, 2008 9:46 AM
Greg said...: Looks like a bug with transaction download to spreadsheet has been introduced in the last month. The the shares and price values are blank in the .csv file. There is also an extra column in the data rows that pushes commission over to the notes column, but that has been around a problem for months and I can deal with that. Anybody else notice this? I hope the shares/price missing problem gets fixed soon.; November 7, 2008 9:10 PM
a said...: can someone explain the difference in volume figures?

If you type in ("SPY","volume") you get a very different volume from the historic volume figures from GoogleFinance(B4, "volume", start, end, period)

There is a whole 100X difference between the numbers?

Thoughts?; November 10, 2008 1:30 PM
crj55sts said...: is there a way to put reverse splits into my portfolio?; November 11, 2008 11:53 AM
sJ said...: why some stocks are showing 20 min delay like FXP...

also today LVS shows wrong closing price ?; November 11, 2008 3:01 PM
Unmesh said...: Google Finance shows wrong price quotes for Bombay Stock exchange. I set up my portfolio using BSE script codes. Hours after the close it still is updating price. It appears it flashes two prices -- one correct and another incorrect. I am not sure what the second price is supposed to indicate. There are no after hour exchange prices in India. It rotates between the two.

Has anyone noticed this phenomenon?

I tried ONG, RPL and RIL.; November 20, 2008 9:37 AM
jack said...: well someone hit the target dead center when they said " just have it work !!!! "
google finance needs to work much more than it need new features. stick the new stuff in a dark place and prioritize a great working google finance. one new thing google could add is a spot where people could drop problems like the one i have had for months, any change to portfolios get this crap " Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds."
and show a running total of all complaints and for how long before it is corrected, eg: 1. finance server error
37,456,213 times since date, and would love a [ what we are doing about it comment from google ]

so now to yahoo to try to figure out how to switch my portfolios.

jack2; November 27, 2008 7:45 AM
jack said...: wow

i got this error trying to post here ????
Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.

not sure if it posted

jack2; November 27, 2008 7:49 AM
jack said...: well they posted, so why the error ???

btw i set up another google finance account where i get no error, but am afraid to put 100's of hours to get it where i want it and get zapped again with server errors.

also same errors with mac msft or linux all
on different computers, so has to be google background stuff on this account.

jack2; November 27, 2008 8:08 AM
dmac said...: The major turn off for me is that it does not work with more than 2 decimal points. This makes it impossible to use Google Finance with my 401k or with my Sharebuilder transactions, as all those involve 3 or 4 decimal points.

I've tried to use the Import Portfolio tool many times, but I can never get it to work. I have tried it many ways and in many formats. But it will never import anything. Does that thing even work?; December 7, 2008 6:29 PM
dmac said...: Also, if you have your dividends paid in cash instead of reinvested, there doesn't seem to be a way to have this included in the Overall Return.

Another suggestion is allow us to customize the fields for the different views.

Another suggestion is to allow us to export all of our transactions.

Google, you have a lot of potential with this, but there really are some basic things that need to be fixed or else it's always going to be second-rate.; December 7, 2008 6:38 PM
Gaetan said...: There seem to be a bug in the overall return total calculation (bottom right of the table).
I simulated a portfolio with some positive and negative overall return but the final calculation doesn't match the actual percentage of the entire portfolio.
Specifically, I have a 5000 deposit and a mkt value total of 5580 and the overall return 'total' gives 7.02%...
Am I missing something or is this a bug actually ?

Except that, g-team did a great job once again !; December 10, 2008 3:37 AM
"Scuba" Steve said...: I'd like to see the availability of financial statements as far back as possible and have the ability to download them in an excel or open office format.; December 13, 2008 4:09 PM
jped9 said...: The ability to set a price watch alert would be really nice. I would like to get an email when the price went above or below a threshold, changed by a certain %, or had a high volume of trades.; December 15, 2008 8:42 AM
Joe & Kim Rice said...: Google finance needs something that explains what all the stock valuation measures mean. I have been able to figure it out but only by going to another site.; December 19, 2008 11:23 AM
Eduardo Zea said...: Google finance displays incorrect exchange rates for COP. If you type USDCOP today, Dec 12 2008, you get 1841.62063, but the correct market rate is 2175.00. Yahoo finance gets it right. It seems google finance is stuck in the exchange rate that was going on March 3. This is bad, because when you type 1 USD in COP you are supposed to get the latest. Please fix this.; December 20, 2008 2:29 AM
the wealth of nation said...: I was impressed by the response speed of google finance. However it still looks like a bady that have a long way to grow. Please, give me candle stick!; December 21, 2008 7:40 AM
ETA said...: Hi.

Add me to the list of people who (from what I can tell) have been banned from the google financial discussions for no good reason.

Please check my posts -- I've been helpful, polite, and informative in all of these.

I believe that what might have happened is that I tried to flag someone else's post as spam. With the yahoo groups, you can rate the post as "poor" but with google I didn't see any way to do this so I posted "SPAM!" as a reply (see the UUU:TSE discussions -- this is where I did this).

Could someone please un-ban me so that I can continue to follow these discussions / post useful comments without needing to use my daugther's account? ;)

Thanks!; December 30, 2008 8:40 PM
David said...: I would really like Google to fix the 502 error that I keep getting that just tells me I need to wait 30 seconds and try again. I have been waiting for 30 seconds for a week now.; January 5, 2009 8:57 AM
David said...: Wow, that that they actually did it. It started working for few hours yesterday but now it is doing the same thing again. This is very frustrating. (Referring to the 502 server error.); January 6, 2009 6:59 AM

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