How can I fix Yahoo Finance so the great display is back the way it was on 24 March before Yahoo changed it?

Question

How can I fix Yahoo Finance so the great display is back the way it was on 24 March before Yahoo changed it?

Answer 1

Here is the link: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/  and also the foreign sites are listed at the bottom of the Yahoo Finance  home page.  UK and Ireland and Singapore all still display the old format which was much better than the new small almost illegible format.

Answer 2

Change your URL to: http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/p?v&k=pf_1

Yahoo Singapore seems to be the closest to what we used to have since it has the "Set Alert" link next to "Create Transaction History" in the lower left.  This works for now, but the chances are that corporate will eventually cram their "New and Improved" format down everybody's throat, worldwide.  Sounds like a classic "Dilbert Syndrome" with too many pointy-haired bosses. . .

The view that existed before this one worked just fine - you could print a portfolio with about 40 entries on it with IE7 by selecting the stuff you wanted, go to print preview, view as selected on screen, adjust size scaling, landscape format and you got a nice spreadsheet-type printout for your historical records all on one page.  The new view effectively double-spaces the data lines and you must shrink the effective font smaller in order to fit it on one page.

Personally, I liked the previous portfolio printouts that I used to make because they came out in a very nice table with solid black header labels, block printed like an Excel spreadsheet.

One can only hope that they will look at all of the negative comments that have been posted about the "New View."

Comments: finance dash admin at yahoo dash inc dot com

Answer 3

I have the same question! I can't see the performance of two purchases of the same stock at different times anymore, Yahoo merged them. Grrr.

Update, March27: it's back! I guess all our emails to them worked.

Answer 4

This really sucks. The new layout is hard on the eyes. You can convert your portfolio into their new transactions format by clicking the "Add Transaction History" link, and then you can select for the converted portfolio to show duplicate listings separately. However, the new transactions format does not seem to allow tickers without at least one share owned. So if you put 1 for number of shares, it distorts your portfolio totals. What a bunch of morons.

Answer 5

I too find the new layout hard on the eyes -- way too bright.  The horizontal and vertical spacing adds in a bunch of needless white space and requires bigger windows and more scrolling.  Everything was nice and compact before.  Previously viewed links don't change color.  And where is the overall market summary?  Needless agony.

Answer 6

I've just sent in my complaint to Yahoo! as well.  I have a couple of portfolios with multiple listings for the same stock and I only see the top one in the portfolio view.

Once again, Yahoo development and QA (!) have changed something that was working perfectly and didn't need to be changed at all and, in the process, have broken it.

Also, if you read a news item for one of your securities, it's no longer grayed out when you go back to the page.  You just have to remember that you've already read that article.