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> Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.

Epic. Fail.

EDIT: also, new new version looks terrible! it's first stop on the way to obsolescence and graveyard

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I'm curious; where you using this feature? Why was Google Finance better than the alternatives? I've kept an eye on Google Finance for a while and it doesn't appear to have received any updates for a long time. The stock chart still requires Flash, for example.

My memory may be faulty, but I think google finance had real time quotes when yahoo and most everybody else had a 15-minute delay.

Nope, 15 minute delay like almost everyone else.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-stock-market-data-delayed-by-20...

No, Google had real-time data (as they had an info message confirming that displayed on most tickers). Someone in your link also comments on that.

My apologies: turns out the delay is only in Canada for TSE listed stocks and does not apply to US exchanges such as NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.

tradingview is pretty great for charts. Although doesn't have the news component, i guess.

Bottom right-hand corner of every chart has a "headlines" window. Might not be amazing but it is there.

It reads like,

> find someone who has this as a serious business, we will abandon this service eventually

I know that they will probably kill it like they do all of their useful products, but it seems like this could turn a profit for Google. A moderately trained monkey should be able to turn a profit either by selling people's financial search information or by investing based on their searches (although I'm not entirely sure that would be legal).

What investor wouldn't pay for a real time stream of search volume for each ticker?

Right but Google doesn't do the former (sell user info), and the latter no big company will touch with a 10' pole once anyone in legal gets wind of it.

Google wouldn't be selling individual user searches, just something like "TSLA has had 52 queries in the last second." Nobody's privacy is violated there. Google already reports historical search trends, so it is plausible that they could make a real-time version to sell. They could charge by the number of symbols you subscribe to, or by the frequency you desire.

It looks more like an interface change, like what happened with hotel room finding where they rolled it into regular search.

Search is core to Google and it's not like people are going to stop searching for info about stocks, so it makes sense to use that UI and avoid having separate web apps where possible.

Pretty much. Have you tried https://wallmine.com/google-finance-portfolio-alternative?

Edit: disclosure - I am affiliated with the recommended site.

Are you the author? You've submitted that page three times in two days.

How can you tell? I only see one comment in her profile and I have showdead enabled.

I'm not surprised they've been deleted if she's spamming like this but curious if you just recognized the username or if there's another setting I need to enable to see those comments.

I'm not sure GP's claim is true. HN search shows one "Show HN" post and two comments with that website as links, all submitted by different usernames. I don't think this is an inappropriate level of promotion.

The history you see is all there's ever been.

Thank you (and others) for pointing out that affiliation should always be spelled out. I'm very sorry for unintentionally causing such a stir but grateful for the learning lesson. I'm part of the team working on the site and will make sure to make that clear in the future. Thank you!

He probably is. That said, you might also want to take a look at Stockfolio then: https://stockfolioapp.com.

Full disclosure: I'm the author. Also, we're pushing a major update sometime next week.

Why Mac only? :(

This sort of app can easily be on the web, at least.

So what? Does it hurt you in some way? I don't see the issue with people advertising their projects when the opportunity arises. This is HN, the home of software hustlers, ya' know.

I agree. A shameless plug in a relevant thread is actually helpful to people.

Sorry, I didn't want to move the discussion in that direction. The recent 'Show HN' of the page was a different user (I assume author, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758440). So I was wondering if the other account is a co-author/employee/second account of the same user because "hey, author here" comments often lead to good insight, e.g. features, comparison. Shameless plug is fine, it's a highly relevant service now that Google removed features.

It's fine as long as it's clear that the author is talking about his/her own creation.

OK, but developers should still disclose their affiliation.

Are you planning on supporting european stock markets?

Yes, support for European stock markets is part of the development plan, but it will take some time until it's fully available.

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