Why did my portfolio display change? I no longer see all my holdings.?

Question

I don't like the new display plus multiple entries for the same stock do not show.

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'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.