Embedable stock charts are nothing new, and neither are interactive charts that give you price information as you mouse over different dates. Both Yahoo Finance and Google Finance offer interactive charts on their respective sites, and Yahoo offers embeddable static charts. Neither one brings that interactivity to chart widgets that can be embedded on other sites.
But starting today you can get interactive, embeddable WikiCharts like the one below from Wikinvest. Hold the mouse down over the chart and you can pan it from left to right. Hover over the line and you will get date, price, and volume, information.
And it’s a wiki, so anyone can add an annotation. Do you think you know what’s been driving Yahoo’s stock price up and down lately? Stick in your best explanation before or during big price movements as an annotation.
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Google Finance is easy to work with in my opinion, with the news of the stock you are looking at on the right side. Yahoo has recently added interactive chats as well… people are following Google’s footsteps, in the right direction.
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Nice example… it’s funny how you guys never miss a chance to pick on Yahoo.
I really like this chart, it feels like a much more natural way to explore financial data than looking at a static image and searching for news about it. Reminds me of some of the better high-school history textbooks.
With financial data, there are always concerns about bias and accuracy, but the wikinvest annotations I’ve seen so far seem fairly neutral. I hope it stays that way.
I don’t know about the annotations. I check the Yahoo Finance message boards from time to time, and 90% of the comments that I see on those boards make the Loren Feldman-Shel Israel thingie look like high-minded discussion. Perhaps this is just limited to Yahoo Finance discussions, but somehow public financial discussions bring out the worst in people. I’m waiting for the Wikinvest annotation that says “MSFT DROPED 1$ BECASE BUSH IS A FACIST AND SHOLD BE IMPECHED!” Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but I don’t have high hopes.
Ontario Emperor: If I were the Wikinvest crew, I’d be worried about the same thing. Wikipedia shows that it’s at least possible to keep quality decent. There will always be exceptions, but they don’t need to destroy the overall usefulness of the service.
Ontario – one of the advantages of open source is that Wikinvest contributors patrol chart annotations
This means the one above “MSFT DROPPED $1 BECAUSE BUSH IS A FASCIST” would be deleted because its not relevant, nor is it based on facts…the same thing happens on Wikipedia
This is not open source. It could be open source if Wikinvest would release the sourcecode that powers these charts. And this is what “open source” refers to – open sourcecode.
You can call it open content though.
What’s my motivation to contribute information to another person’s wiki project unless, like wikipedia, it’s guaranteed to be free and ad free for eternity and thus un-monetizable?
These graphs would look good on CrunchBase.
Same reason why wikipedia works dude — because everyone benefits from it. There is still some good in the world.
I quite enjoy the wikinvest site and these charts are cool, just wonder about the business model.
What makes you think wikinvest isnt going to be free till eternity? It is and will always be for the masses… yea.. free! ..With that guaranteed, I assume that I shall see more than just a couple of contributions from you.. wont I?
There is no incentive to contribute. That is the condundrum this company has faced from day 1 and a problem they will continue to face. Why would I want to add anything to someone else’s business without reaping any reward? Seems irrational.
this is really really boring folks!
I don’t help other poker players play their hands. Why would I help other investors with their investments? Investing is not charity.
Sure, you help other investors by recommending stocks that you own. It’s called Pump-and-Dump. Same as in poker when you bluff. Ya gotta do it!
As with anything you read on the internet, take all stock advice with a grain of salt. (Hmm.. if everyone does that, surely Morton Salt stock will go up!)
I like the Y2K comment on Yahoo’s chart. (If you don’t find it funny, then maybe someone changed it. Darn wikis!)
Boring? Nay. This is just what CrunchBase needed: http://blog.cru...from-wikinvest/
It looks like they’re using the Google Visualization API
http://code.goo...edtimeline.html
On the right edge of the chart it says the data is provided by ThomsonReuters. I’m surprised TR would allow WikiInvest to embed their data on *any* site. Usually data licenses have site restrictions…why would any other site need to pay TR for their data when they can just embed a WikiInvest chart? So either WikiInvest is paying TR major bucks for the distribution rights (unlikely), they’re doing it without Thomson’s blessing (possible), or TR is foolishly allowing it (possible, but not likely).
Good point. I would imagine TR isn’t aware of this right now.
Hey guys – Parker from Wikinvest. I want to nip this rumor in the bud. The data is entirely legitimate, TR is aware of this use of it and we have the agreement with them to do so.
We provide an open-source implementation (Chronoscope) of similar functionality, available as Google Gadget, microformat Widget, Google Visualization API (Javascript), GWT, Flash, and Java Applet (http://timepedia.org), stylable via CSS as well, but we do not provide data feeds nor a builtin enduser UI for adding annotations, although that is coming in the next version very soon.
They need this feature in Google Analytics. When you have a team of analysts looking at the daily traffic, it’d be great to note certain spikes and dips from before instead of having to re-do the research every time once the report is pushed out and the reason is forgotten.
I like this service a lot. I am already a Fool.com addict, but I found the Wikinvest.com pages easy to read, particularly the concept pages. Not so sure about the charts though. I like the Yahoo ones batter. I will be using this site for it’s articles again.
The charts *look* good. The idea is good in theory. But I don’t think it’ll prove useful.
On the contrary, I think this will be very popular if the data is accurate [and if the markets ever pick up]. The index charts don’t all seem to work very well. For instance it is 1pm GMT on a Monday and the FTSE chart only shows prices ap to 10.30am last Friday – definitely not that useful.