Google Finance is under renovation.

george4064

Nerdlinger wrote: »

Yahoo Finance was my first point of reference before Google started with their free real-time prices, I've been back there today to update my shares portfolio, I think it's a much better service than Google but 15 minutes delayed. I always liked the historical data.

I have been using London Stock Exchange portfolio service to check all-important closing prices because Google Finance have always ignored these apart from the day's change but even that has been flaky on Google recently - alternating between changes from previous day's closing price and some arbitrary price. I probably won't need LSE so much if I go back to using Yahoo.

I could get real-time data from my broker's website but I like to monitor my portfolio without any 2-stage authentication etc. and I don't really really need real-time, I'm not Gordon Ghekko.

I'm in the same boat as you nerdlinger. Going to give Yahoo Finance a go, however I prefer Google's basic layout to Yahoo's all guns blazing page with videos etc!!

Nerdlinger

As of now Google Finance has been renovated. The portfolio feature has gone, leaving lists of shares you are interested in... They now don't even list volume of shares traded. I don't think I have any use for it now and Yahoo's 15-minute delay doesn't have the same appeal as real-time.

Perhaps this is for the best. It's probably not healthy to monitor investments too closely and maybe Google made that too easy for me. I also use the LSE's Portfolio Daily Summary email service, good for aforementioned definitive closing prices, I think this might be the way forward...

George, you can bookmark the portfolio page and avoid the home page.

LHW99

I tend to monitor my portfolio weekly (generally Friday's closing prices) - and I thought that was a bit over the top. I've never really found it a problem therefore to have a 15min delay on prices.
Many years ago, it was possible to monitor shares on Ceefax (remember that!) but even then it wasn't actually real-time.

dividendgoal

I was apprehensive of the 'renovation' as I was used to checking my portfolios in Google Finance several times a week and enjoyed the relatively uncluttered experience with self-explanatory metrics. It's true that it lacked some features but did the overall job well. Yahoo Finance was okay but I finally migrated my portfolios to Wallmine. I believe they're quite new but the service is very good.

le_loup

well thank you for going to all the bother of signing up - just to plug a company. Particularly on a UK site when the company you plug is US and doesn't quote UK companies.
Nice try.

pavane

Yahoo has always been better anyway. Better app, better customisation, better export, better API. As an alternative look at Morningstar.

adamccc

Another fantastic option is Stockopedia

They offer a free account alongside their paid data and screening service, which gives you access to portfolios, analytics and their amazing discussion forum and educational stuff.

You can get your free account here: stockopedia dot com/auth/register

I know the guys are always happy to give you a trail of all their data and tools at no cost too :T

Prism

I use investing dot com for live share prices as it has worldwide coverage and a functional mobile app. Trustnet for funds

Apodemus

Anyone know what is going on now? I had missed this thread and was appalled at the new Google Finance site when it started. I don’t need the portfolio feature but do want to be able to look at individual stocks with the related news and general background. So I gave site feedback to Google (not that I expected that to make much difference).

But now the site seems to have gone back to its earlier version. Was this just a test or have they backed off for the moment?

Glen_Clark

Although I have newer ones, my favourite PC is 16 years old running Windows XP.
I like it because it runs all the old programmes I have got used to.
But it struggles to load processor hungry web pages like this new google one.