iii becomes ii

grey_gym_sock

and i thought they had a third "eye" because they were into psychedelic drugs ...

Michael_Nottingham

Just logged on
urrrrg what have they done to the Porfolio tool
Some of my pension funds no longer showing prices
But more importantly prices quoted are bid which is completely useless when there is a big closing spread which their data feed seems to have
And the general look and feel is very poor
What a step backwards

cloud_dog

Oh dear iI, what have you done.

It is obviously following in the 'guidance' (sic) for lots of white space etc and potentially is more mobile friendly (haven't tried it yet) but my thoughts on it are, well....YUK.

Change for the sake of change.

In many ways the change mirrors the change to the new skin for MSE, the previous styles (blue for III and green for MSE) were simple, clear, and importantly easy to identify the information required.

As an example my landing 'page' used to be a portfolio that listed stocks I actively trade (as opposed to all the other portfolios of ITs etc), and III used to group the stocks, ITs, and indices in to separate tables which made quickly reviewing stock movements against the wider stock market movement very easy. Now all the entries are lumped in to the same list (table).

EDIT: I have also lost all my listed pension funds (Prudential for example)

Perhaps there are preference options that may allow me to re-engineer my preferred layout but at the moment it appears iI has gone down the same path as many others; i.e. form over substance.

Shimrod

cloud_dog wrote: »

As an example my landing 'page' used to be a portfolio that listed stocks I actively trade (as opposed to all the other portfolios of ITs etc), and III used to group the stocks, ITs, and indices in to separate tables which made quickly reviewing stock movements against the wider stock market movement very easy. Now all the entries are lumped in to the same list (table).

Same here: I used it as an 'at a glance' state of the portfolio. Each company listed then had quick links to see news, discussion, charts and summary information. I can't find anything similar - from reading the OP, it looks like that's now only available if you have a trading account with them.



I guess I am not the target customer of the changes though - they don't make any money from me apart from a bit of advertising revenue, but I now have to somewhere else that can give me that single portfolio view - any suggestions?


edit: fixed quote

cloud_dog

Unsure atm, will have a look over the weekend at options.

capital0ne

cloud_dog wrote: »

As an example my landing 'page' used to be a portfolio that listed stocks I actively trade (as opposed to all the other portfolios of ITs etc), and III used to group the stocks, ITs, and indices in to separate tables which made quickly reviewing stock movements against the wider stock market movement very easy. Now all the entries are lumped in to the same list (table).

Shimrod wrote: »

Same here: I used it as an 'at a glance' state of the portfolio. Each company listed then had quick links to see news, discussion, charts and summary information. I can't find anything similar - from reading the OP, it looks like that's now only available if you have a trading account with them.
I guess I am not the target customer of the changes though - they don't make any money from me apart from a bit of advertising revenue, but I now have to somewhere else that can give me that single portfolio view - any suggestions?

Use Google Sheets and then you can use the GoogleFinance function like this:

In cell D3 put "=GoogleFinance(C3,"price")" where cell C3 has the stock exchange code like LON:RDSB

There are many other parameters "closeyest" - yesterday's closing price and so om.

Check it out - it's very easy to use and build up a nice spreadsheet to suit your needs

If you want to track funds then it can be dome but it's a tad tricky, but not beyoned the average MSEr, do it like this:

=index(ImportHtml("https://www.blackrock.com/uk/individual/products/230289/blackrock-uk-gilts-all-stocks-tracker-fund-class-d-acc-fund", "table", 0),2,3)

And finally you can list share price history between two dates if you wish like this:

=GOOGLEFINANCE("RDSB", "price",DATE(2014,1,1), DATE(2014,1,31), "DAILY")

Results in this
Date Close
2-Jan-2014 2263.5
3-Jan-2014 2270.5
6-Jan-2014 2254.66
7-Jan-2014 2269
8-Jan-2014 2259
9-Jan-2014 2264.5
10-Jan-2014 2308
13-Jan-2014 2303
14-Jan-2014 2287.5
15-Jan-2014 2296.5
16-Jan-2014 2306
17-Jan-2014 2279.5
20-Jan-2014 2280.5
21-Jan-2014 2273.125
22-Jan-2014 2287
23-Jan-2014 2291
24-Jan-2014 2272
27-Jan-2014 2240
28-Jan-2014 2231.5
29-Jan-2014 2242.5
30-Jan-2014 2266.5

Nice innit!

capital0ne

cloud_dog wrote: »

Oh dear iI, what have you done.

It is obviously following in the 'guidance' (sic) for lots of white space etc and potentially is more mobile friendly (haven't tried it yet) but my thoughts on it are, well....YUK.

Change for the sake of change.

When on earth did you last login - nothing has changed, what you see now is how III has been for the last year.

I didn't like it when it did change when TD moved to become III but got used to it.

So I don't understand the comments on this - it's NOT changed folks - hurrah! :T:T:T

bowlhead99

capital0ne wrote: »

So I don't understand the comments on this - it's NOT changed folks - hurrah! :T:T:T

So why did you start a thread telling us it was changing and that it was looking good ?

That somewhat implied that you knew what was going on.

The iii discussions / research beta site has gone from beta to live this weekend under the ii address and there are plenty of dissatisfied users, e.g.:

https://www.ii.co.uk/discussion/t/welcome-to-your-new-discussion-boards/8

capital0ne

bowlhead99 wrote: »

So why did you start a thread telling us it was changing and that it was looking good ?

That somewhat implied that you knew what was going on.

The iii discussions / research beta site has gone from beta to live this weekend under the ii address and there are plenty of dissatisfied users, e.g.:

https://www.ii.co.uk/discussion/t/welcome-to-your-new-discussion-boards/8

No, of course I didn't know, I just read the announcement that I discretely cut and pasted for the benefit of all you MSErs

Also a touch of sarcasm because I know how everyone here hates change - I think it's an age thing.

make change your friend, don't let anger take the reins.

cloud_dog

capital0ne wrote: »

make [STRIKE]change [/STRIKE]usability your friend, don't let [STRIKE]anger[/STRIKE] change for the sake of change take the reins.

I think that is more appropriate.