Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 7:29 AM
Plotting news stories on the company charts has always been one of my favorite features of Google Finance. Today, I'm happy to announce that we're pushing it even further!
First,you'll notice that we moved the Blogs section to a tab next to the News area. When you select the blog tab, relevant blog posts are listed and charted just like the news items, making it easier to see the blogosphere's coverage of your favorite stocks.
We've also added a tab called Feeds. There are a few ways you can use this tab:
- Search for relevant feeds by typing keywords in the query box. Relevant results (like blogs or news feeds) are listed so you can choose which one to plot onto the chart, just like news stories and blog posts.
- Use addresses from blogs you know, blogs you've written, or blogs you just found that you think are relevant to a stock. For example, one of my favorite URLs is http://AAPL.bloggingstocks.com/rss.xml. Enter it in the query box and you can see the news about Apple from bloggingstocks.com as flags on a company chart (hint: it works for most other symbols too!).
- Use data from Google Spreadsheets. If you keep notes in a Google Spreadsheet about your investing decisions, you can publish that spreadsheet to the web and plot the entries along any Google Finance chart.
And best of all, if you find a blog or create a useful spreadsheet that you'd like to share with others, you can click "Link to chart" to send a link to your friends.
For more advanced tricks for the Feeds tab, you can visit our Help Center to learn more.
We're hoping this feature will encourage more, and more meaningful content creation by analysts, bloggers, and users alike. By giving users more content to compare with the stock performance over time we hope to help investors make financial decisions that are as informed as possible.
As always, let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.
5 comments:
Unfortunately, for http://aapl.bloggingstocks.com/ I see "This URL does not have a feed associated with it." -
How about making it possible to plot your entire Google Reader feed collection or a certain tag from the collection?
In that vein I tried making a tag public and feeding its public page into Google Finance but it didn't work. I was looking at a ticker that I explicitly saw mentioned in the posts on the tag's public page, but still nothing.
thanks,
darko
Hi,
Using a public tag from Google Reader is possible, but it's true that we currently seem to not identify correctly the exact source of that public page.
What you need to do is find the exact URL of the feed for that public page. You can do this by
a. either clicking the RSS icon in your browser bar and see where that takes you - then use that url
b. look in the source of the public page for your tag and locate the tag that says "<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"". Use the URL from that tag to plot that feed on the stock page.
Hope this helps, let me know if it doesn't.
thanks, that worked!
When you expect to have a bit better Stock charts ?
Current charts are very, very basic..
When you Compare u can't see the price scrolling over price-line.
Only simple lines, no candle sticks.
No averages or indexes.
Volume bar is almost invisible, you can't get idea of the volume difference it is so miniscule, and even in this small bar the volume-sticks(height) don't occupy 100% of the vol-bar.
and so on.. and so on...
Check yahoo charts ..
The only thing I like more about google is not the chart, but the layout i.e. how the things are positioned on the page.
thanx
PS>
Drawing lines would be even better ;), dreaming here..
Do you expect ever to have Options avail. like Yahoo do.
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