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Streaming charts and other updates this week

Monday, July 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM



A number of small features and fixes have been rolled out to everyone:

  • Streaming charts. We have had streaming real-time prices for quite some time, and now the charts have caught up to the rest of the page. The price plotted will updated as new prices are streamed into your browser. This should be useful for keeping an eye on earnings reports this month, especially in extended hours trading!


  • A toggle has been added to the top of the recent quotes module to select the absolute change or percentage change. You could actually toggle the selection before the header was introduced, by clicking on the change price/percentage itself, but this makes it more discoverable.


  • Bug fixes for Opera users on portfolios, and some IE users on index pages.


Watch this space for more updates as we roll out new features on Google Finance.

27 comments:

top-secret helicopter said...

thx thx thx you!

Outstanding work on the update.

Lion Nawawi said...

err...any idea when you might introduce more markets prices like yahoo?

ML said...

Or especially a german version?

Krampster said...

In OHLC and Candlestick I can only choose the interval, not the zoom.

I'm much more interested in picking quick zooms and letting it auto figure out the interval. Please allow me to quick zoom in candlestick mode.

Andy said...

One suggestion I would have is to improve the change in stock price over time options.

I think that if you look at a stock over a period of time, you should be able to see the Compounded Annual Growth Rate in the price of the stock.

Currently, you just see the total return over time.

Damodharan said...

Hi i need to Display this type of feed in my Feb site for the Particular stock how can i make i tried the API documentation i cannot able to follow please give the Simple solution

damu.be@gmail.com

Neil said...

Love how Google Finance is evolving. Is this where we leave feeback, ideas and suspected bugs? Could not find the google labs page. Thanks.

Christian Rauh said...

Can you please implement simple and basic reordering of the portfolios before any of the "advanced" features? Doesn't make any sense not to have that.

Hildie said...

I'm really glad to see this opportunity to invest in the whole market and watch things from my home page. I am a late bloomer. Is this a good way to learn as i go and build a portfolio?

John said...

can you stop spam?

Damodharan said...

Hi , Please Help me any one give the idea how to show case the Stock range in my website

please how can i do help me

mail me

damu.be@gmail.com

Daffy said...

I used to be able to link my Excel spreadsheet to update daily from my Google portfolio. Now I'm no longer to create a spreadsheet link to my Google portfolio. I have to manually download from the portfolio the manually import the data CSV formatted data into my spreadsheet. Why can't we now create a spreadsheet link to the portfolio? Thanks, Calsurfr

Ralph said...

There is a very serious bug which stops Google Finance portfolios from being useful.

Shares and funds in the UK are priced in GB *pence*, not GB *pounds*.

Google Finance seems to understand this for mainstream stockmarket shares, but does not seem to do so for various funds. E.g. Gartmore China Opportunities, GB0031860934. In such cases, Google Finance shows the price in Pounds instead of pence, meaning that any such holding in a portfolio is 1/100 of its actual value.

Sorry to report this here, but there seems to be no other bug reporting mechanism I can see for Google Finance.

Ria said...

Thanks for the great piece of information... Post more market prices.

Keith said...

Loving the new google finance interface - looks good though I think I may have found a bug and can't find anywhere to send it to so I'll post here (Please excuse misspellings/grammar errors...

If you navigate to finance.google.com, click the dow jones industrial average (or perhaps any stock) (without being logged in) with chrome 2.0.172.37 (probably most other versions as well or ie 8.

Resize your browser just wide enough that it doesn't have any horizontal scroll bars. Click "5d" for 5 days..

Now resize the browser wider - a little quickly and you'll see the trend line mis-draw and the last day shown will span over more real estate than it should.

It seems to stop occurring after you play with it a little, it seems to be on the initial browser resize. It appears to be 90% functional - just a little quirky.

Keep up the great work though!

Connei said...

No chart found error on some stocks

Try to click on the following stocks:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG:1338
http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG%3A2009
http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG%3A0090
http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG:0449
http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG%3A0866

The chart used to show up.
It's not anymore about 1 week ago.
What's up? Please try to fix it. Thanks.

(Sorry for bug report here because you don't have any bug report system for Google Finance)

Alan said...

Starting last week sometime, Firefox and Chrome started to hang while loading the interactive charts while logged in to a google account. If not logged in they seem to work normally.

If you let it run at 100% CPU for a few minutes the charts will render and the browser will become responsive once again, but other times you must restart the browser.

Eric said...

Ahh, it appears a new feature automatically figures your dividends and by default credits you account balance.

I've always entered my dividends as a buy for $0.00 (since I have them setup to re-invest). Now my account balance is way off.

I hate it!!!

jh said...

Nice functionality, but when can we add stocks from foriegn exchanges e.g. Swiss to our portfolio?

Jelmer de Jong said...

Still wondering: why don't you show the currency in which a price is presented? For example: when looking the graph of GOOG I see a share price of 460.41. Is this dollar? euro? roepie?

Sure, I can understand this is dollar. But why not show it? Becoming really difficult when watching the HKG:1688 graph: hongkong dollar? euro?

Think it is an easy improvement: for every amount, show the currency!

pete said...

does the iGoogle widget for Google finance provide long term charts of share prices? my share trading co. provide 12 months but i need longer term data occasionally. thanks

D said...

Very nice. Just add trendlines, and these will be the best charts on the web.

Michael said...

Hi Software Engineers,

As you know, all stocks go up and down like waves and all investors look for the bottoms of the waves. Can you add a new feature (if not already existent) to let users to query in the following conditions:

1 exchange, eg ASX
2 date/time range of interest, eg I am interested in a report with stock prices between 2009/09/01 to present
3 percentage of change to indicate the depth of the waves, eg (peak - bottom) / price = 10%
4 maximum number of entries in report such that users can adjust their date/time range and/or percentage of change to avoid flooding

The report will include stock symbols, company names and charts in the date/time range.

Hope to see this query soon.

Thanks
Regards,
Michael

Michael said...

Sorry. I have just sent a comment irrelevant to this conversation without realizing it. Could you please reply with a link for general comments on Google Finance?

Thanks,
Regards,
Michael

PS. I would not feel any shame. The "Shameless .." sentence is offending.

bloggy said...

two weeks back i had streaming charts in google finance but now its not refreshing automatically. please try to provide streaming real time charts.

Pod said...

Excellent work on developing this site. I wonder if there is room to show percentage increase of a share from the previous close?

JustSir2u said...

Dividends? Where did dividends go????? I look at Google Finance charts everyday, and rely on the dividend history to evaluate stocks, and in the last few days I have noticed the dividends have disappeared on the charts ...when you select 5 year, ten year or max they used to appear ...I hope this isn't a permanent change ...