Since Yahoo finance interface changed (1 days ago) I cannot view the same stock fed with different purchase?!?

Question

Yahoo finance interface changed (1 days ago).

old interface allowed loading multiple symbols with different purchase value - this one does not ( it aggregates all this info).

what should I do?!

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

I hate it too! Make it the way it used to be so I can be happy with the service again. We had enough options to change it the way we liked before. PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK!!

Answer 3

I've gotten word back from Yahoo! that they changed the layout of the Finance Portfolios pages "to make them more consistent with other Yahoo! pages."

So now the Finance Portfolios pages are more consistent with all the other changes that Yahoo has made recently that nobody likes. I suspect that nobody will like this one, either, and that Yahoo couldn't care less.

Answer 4

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

This works for now until corporate decides to 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."

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