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WorkUntilRetireon Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

Exactly! If I’m looking at a 5 year chart for any given stock, I don’t really care what the nominal price was, I care about the total return. Even more so when comparing 2 stocks.

Killer feature would be historical charts that include re-invested dividends.

WorkUntilRetireon Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

Looks like a great start, thanks for posting.

For me, a killer feature would be charts with the option to include total return including reinvested dividends etc. I would happily pay for that if the data was accurate.

I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that the dividends listed in Google/Yahoo finance are often incomplete for common index funds. And it drives me nuts when I can't add them into the charts.

Good luck!

WorkUntilRetireon The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Did Lehman run index funds? What happened to their customers?

What would happen today if a firm like Schwab or Fidelity suddenly went bankrupt? Would their S&P 500 index funds (Such as SWPPX or FFFFX) drop to zero, wiping out customer’s retirement?