My Yahoo finance portfolio changed yesterday why.??.. The listing is wrong and no market news is here. Why?

Question

the report or portfolio isn't useful now because I used to have maybe 3 lines for one stock depending on when I bot it, but now there is only one line.. and its incomplete.

nothing on the DJones, Nasdaq, S&P all gone..

thanks Lon Alexander

Answer 1

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 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 found a fix. I went to Yahoo Finance India page. I can access my portfolios in the older format - including multiple entries of same stock!

Here is the link: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/. BTW, the foreign sites are listed at the bottom of the Yahoo Finance home page. UK & Ireland and Singapore sites are also displaying the old format.

I am not sure how long this will last, but, it sure beats the current crappy format.