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1. As has been suggested several times previously, the asterisk is a very important feature in the portfolio view. Without it, I would have to go through all my stocks to see if there was current news…not a good use of my time! Please restore this feature.

   Also, why the up and down arrows if you are using red and green to show the result…seems like overkill to me…either one or the other would be fine, why are both necessary?

   Can I exclude the percentage gain or loss? I really don’t care about percentage loss on a daily basis

   Please also make the entire view smaller so it doesn’t crowd out other areas of the front page

   To make this useful, let your users decide how they want their portfolios to look…either allow them to exclude % or arrow and add asterisk..

   As you said this is one of the most popular modules but you don’t appear to have responded to any of the suggestions made by people on the suggestion forum

   Comment by Ann — August 16, 2007 #

2. Can you add a way to show the index name… like “Dow Jones” instead of ^DJIA. Old MyYahoo had this and it was easier to read at a glance. Thanks

   Comment by Alan — August 18, 2007 #

3. Please follow through with Ann’s suggestions (8/16/07). Most important of her points is the removal of the arrows and % gain/loss. Thanks.

   Comment by Chris — August 23, 2007 #

4. I agree with Alan that it would be a lot simpler to show the index name rather that the code. Also i quite like the % gain. Thanks.

   Comment by John — August 25, 2007 #

5. Real-Time quotes is a paid-for feature. I’m appalled at the carelessness implied by the failure to include this. If you don’t care about your paying customers, soon you won’t have any to worry about.

   Comment by CS — August 28, 2007 #

6. There used to be a module that displayed the latest news headline for all the stocks in your portfolio in a wide-column space on my My Yahoo page. That appears to have stopped working. Does this still exist? If so, where can I find it. I find this at-a-glance view really useful, and it would be a huge pain to recreate on a stock-by-stock basis.

   Comment by RichM — August 28, 2007 #

7. I agree with RichM - the module that displayed the latest news headlines for all the stocks in my portfolio was something that I used on a daily basis. What happened to this module?

   Comment by Aaron — August 28, 2007 #

8. I also miss that module with the latest stock news for my portfolio. Hopefully it’ll be back soon so I don’t have to set up a new home page. Yahoo! was good for that.

   Comment by Tony — August 29, 2007 #

9. Thank you all for the great ideas to make the Stock Portfolio module even better! We have been working on your suggestions and you’ll see a few of them soon. In fact, you will find the headlines module some of you asked about in the coming days as the new and improved Company News module. I will post a link here for you to add the module when it is available. Stay tuned!

   Comment by Jason, Product Manager, My Yahoo! — August 29, 2007 #

10. thanks for the upgrade - first impressions good. Thanks for the % stock gain/loss - much needed. What I’m missing now is the module providing news feeds on stocks I hold…

    Comment by paul — September 1, 2007 #

11. also, where are the upper and lower limits?

    Comment by paul — September 4, 2007 #

12. The new Company News module is here! Check it out:

    Add the Company News module to your page

    Comment by Jason, My Yahoo! Product Manager — September 4, 2007 #

13. Thanks for bringing back the stock portfolio Company News module, Jason.

    Comment by steven — September 5, 2007 #

14. Thanks, Jason, for returning the Company News module. How can one get the callout to appear next to the ticker symbol?

    Comment by Tony — September 5, 2007 #

15. Can I change the column defaults when I view my portfolio on my home page? I would like to see my daily percent change vs. yesterday.

    Comment by Elliot — October 10, 2007 #

16. Jason - it is nice to know news can still be found but it is still not easy to know what to look for. I have hundreds of symbols in 40+ portfolios. It really is necessary to have an asterisk or flag to indicate WHICH stocks have news. I also want this to be in the MY PORTFOLIOS module. I want to see, at a glance, if there is news that explains a move in one of my stocks!

    It is a huge takeaway not to have stocks with news FLAGGED. Without that capability I will not use My Yahoo as my home page–it is a make or break feature for me. I can navigate to anything else that I might want to put on my MY Yahoo home page, but that is the one single thing I need to see when I land on my home page.

    I do like the % Chg showing. Can I add other fields to show in the MY PORTFOLIOS module?

    Comment by jhootus — November 21, 2007 #

17. What happened to My yahoo. I can’t retrieve info I had yesterday?

    Comment by cdlenhart! — January 30, 2008 #

18. I can no longer get my portfolios. It just hangs and hangs when I click. I was able to start a new portfolio but after entering info, it too hangs. Has there been a change in something. Thank you. Paul H.

    Comment by Paul H — February 4, 2008 #

19. Cool Beans. After reading your blog I now understand “stock mutual funds”. Thank For the great post!

    Comment by how to trade currencies — July 3, 2008 #

20. The upper and lower limit reminders are gone! I used them every day. Can you put this essential feature back in? You can bold the price instead of the symbol. Also support other users who say that some of the columns are redundant - ideally we would choose what we want.

    Finally the Market Summary module appears to no longer be customised with different indexes/timeframes?

    Comment by Gavan — July 6, 2008 #

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