![]() ![]() Yahoo looks crap compared to Google, but on Yahoo at least you can record sales. Long story short both Google and Yahoo portfolio tracking options are equally good and equally bad. The Google portfolio is kind to your eyes and the information displayed is easily digestible whereas with Yahoo it just looks complicated and you have to spend more time focusing on getting similar info compared to what you can pick up at first glance with Google portfolio. In Yahoo the ticker format is different example AV.L for Aviva. To accurately record all buy and sell transactions the yahoo portfolio is much better. This is the single most annoying drawback of the Google portfolio. If you try to enter the share amount as a normal positive value but you add the price amount as negative, then google adds that share amount to your total share count (now 120) for that stock, but deduct the value of sorts and the end results are totally wrong numbers and values. You’d think: “easy, do it same as with the yahoo portfolio”, by entering the the share amount as negative (enter -20), transaction date and the amount you get, but then Google will not allow you to save that entry so you cannot continue. Now you decide you wanna sell 20 shares because you are skint and short of petrol money but there is no option to do so. You enter 100 for shares, the date and the price as pence 437.30 (UK stock prices like to mess you about with GBX and GBP) and it will show you the total value of your investment as £437.30. You enter Aviva as LON:AV you then enter the amount of shares, the purchase date and the purchase price. The only PITA issue I have with the Google portfolio is that you cannot sell anything. I have my portfolio tickers in to get a daily news feed from them. I replicate my portfolio tickers onto it. ![]() I have Yahoo Finance on my 'phone which I track with. This app covers every ticker I have ever put into it on all markets including ETFs. This is my main portfolio application/site. I am in the UK, but invest a lot in US stocks as well the UK. I had to change mine from Australia to the US. Only downside I can think of is that they tailor the newsfeed based on the 'phone region. Detailed, profit/loss, portfolio ( buy,sell,sell short,buy to cover,DRIP,Divs,Split) and interface to all the market news ( probably taken from Yahoo Finance). Their dividend company search tools really helped me. They send notifications when the companies in your portfolio go Ex. ![]()
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