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Google Finance Gets A Little More Fancy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:59:29 +0000

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Google Finance Gets A Little More Fancy « shankarsoma; Nothing is faster — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:25:38 +0000

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Google Finance Gets A Little More Fancy | GeekStream — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:01:57 +0000

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google finance | Most Popular Daily Trends, News, Searches — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:53:36 +0000

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By: trade real

trade real — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:41:30 +0000

Whats the point in seeing graphs? Unless it allows us to trade with real hard cash…

By: | Bad Asser Stocks

| Bad Asser Stocks — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:04:23 +0000

[...] I hear ya – I use Google Finance for the most part as well. However, Google doesn’t do options or indepth analysis of stocks . It’s great for looking at the company stock price, but terrible for anything beyond an AJAX stock graph. Original post: Google Finance Sheds Its Beta Label Three Years After Launch … [...]

By: Joe Mamma

Joe Mamma — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:30:28 +0000

If Google wanted to dominate, they would provide technical analysis charting tools, similar to eSignal or Interactive Brokers, and of course make them free. The biggest feature on sites like that is back testing.

Say you come up with a new set of trading rules(e.g. buy on 50 day high, sell on 10 day low, etc). Back testing allows you to figure how how this strategy works, $ wise, on one or many stocks, over a user specified duration. This would would be huge.
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!

By: Joe Mamma

Joe Mamma — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:36:18 +0000

By: Bob Harrington

Bob Harrington — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:06:19 +0000

Where’s that Timothy Sykes douche when you need to pump those OTC’s!?

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:16:20 +0000

I was a long time user of Yahoo! Finance but then began using Google Finance because you would immediately get a drop down of all the possible stocks you were interested in as you typed in the ticker. Not to mention you didn’t even need to remember the ticker – you could type in the name. But for awhile now Yahoo! has had the same functionality so now I go back and forth. Yahoo! by far has a better and more reliable set of available stats. Would agree that Google threw a team of Engineers at the problem without doing their market research first – how about showing the previous close price, for example? Ask a banking analyst or corp dev person how often they use that one data point. It’s a lot.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:09:51 +0000

Google finance is more than that. You can rebuild your portfolio from Scott trade, ameritrade, ect…
via their API and track and optimize your trades using the historical data. Then synch that to your mobile leveraging their Android platform.

So Yahoo does not have that.

But it’s ok, because Yahoo beats Google at finance with it’s other tools.

These tools would not be hard for Google to build, and they could debug their existing tools, but I am guessing that the finance team is small or under manned.

They certainly need more QA people.

By: Dean Higginbotham

Dean Higginbotham — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:42:10 +0000

This is the kind of stuff Bartz was referring to when she went on the offensive with Jim Goldman.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:37:12 +0000

Yahoo wins because of the company info/stats it receives from its partnership with S&P’s Capital IQ.

By: PC

PC — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:35:12 +0000

Funny. I see the PE ratio right there on the top.. just like it’s always been since I first started using it.

By: PC

PC — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:33:31 +0000

Same here. I’m in a transition period where I check Google Finance on a daily basis but sometimes go to Yahoo Finance for other information. I much prefer the Google Finance interface, but Yahoo still has more content that I want to refer to every now and then.

By: SuperFly

SuperFly — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:33:10 +0000

I guess not many people know about this, but Google has been testing a new interface for Google Finance.

its one of those things where they test on random people. It just loads instead of the normal site.

It happened to me last week and DAMN!

It blows any other finance site away. Beautiful new interface. I didn’t check to see if the info has changed.

I wonder if anyone has a screenshot.

By: whoopie

whoopie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:53:09 +0000

yahoo news and finance are two things this aging dinosaur still does right. they should spin them off so these products can be untethered from the rest of the sinking ship before it is too late

By: whoopie

whoopie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:51:29 +0000

or you could just GET the csv formatted yahoo quotes in less code using any url retrieval tool and end up with a simpler format to parse

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:42:53 +0000

YQL just recently added a Yahoo! finance API for quotes based on the CSV data that has always been available there:

http://bit.ly/jdsbN

By: fina

fina — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:38:22 +0000

when you go in the finance message boards, it still shows Beta. They aren’t very organized obviously.