If you use Google Finance, now might be the time to...

[LongHaul]

Liberty,

 

Thanks for mentioning Rocket Financial.  Much faster than Morningstar.

 

Any other site anyone likes?

 

I use:

FT.com for some screening.

Google quotes in excel

The old morningstar for some numbers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LightWhale]

FWIW, yahoo finance is not too bad to use when all the crap is stripped away. Enclosed below is a rather brutal set of ublock origin filters I wrote that get rid of almost every junk pixel on the screen. The experience in google chrome with these filters is rather pleasant now...

 

! yahoo finance brutal simplifications

! general yahoo navigation
finance.yahoo.com##div[id="masterNav"]

! yahoo properties navigation
finance.yahoo.com##ul[class*="Bgc(#2d1152)"]

! navigation junk
finance.yahoo.com##li:has(a:has-text(Personal Finance))
finance.yahoo.com##li:has(a:has-text(Originals))
finance.yahoo.com##li:has(a:has-text(Technology))

! navigation color junk
finance.yahoo.com##div[id="YDC-UH"]:style(background-image: none !important)
finance.yahoo.com##div[id="YDC-Nav"] > div:style(background-image: none !important)

! yahoo mail icon in upper right
finance.yahoo.com##a[title="Mail"]
finance.yahoo.com##a[id="uh-mail"]

! lightbulb in upper right
finance.yahoo.com##div[class*="uv-top-right"]

! "Subscribe to Yahoo Finance's Morning Brief"
finance.yahoo.com##div[id*="FeatureBar"]

! video news
finance.yahoo.com##li[class*="js-stream-content"]

! yahoo text ads
finance.yahoo.com##div[id*="LinkOut-Proxy"]

! other companies
finance.yahoo.com##div[id="YDC-Col2"]

! popup videos
finance.yahoo.com##div[id*="QuoteVideo"]

! side news 
finance.yahoo.com##aside

! slider news
finance.yahoo.com##div[class*="slick-slider"]

! "sponsor" in news
finance.yahoo.com##li:has(p:has(a[data-ylk*="sponsor"]))

! Link Broker 
finance.yahoo.com##li:has(button[data-test="linkPf"])

! Footer 
finance.yahoo.com##div[id="mrt-node-Lead-4-Footer"]

 

apologies for the deep ignorance, but where do I type in this code?

TIA

[Dynamic]

I think you first need to add the Ublock Origin extension to your Chrome browser (or Firefox). The Chrome Extension is here

 

After that I'm not sure, so over to @jimjam

[sleepydragon]

Why Rocket financial's registration want my job title and employer info? That's strange! And

[rb]

Yea that's pretty shady. Then one can also lie. If they want to be shady and dicks so can their users. I'll go on a limb and say they have no way of verifying their users data.

[jimjam]

NB: The following message is superseded by the instructions here:

https://github.com/jimjamfinance/yahoo_finance_ublock_origin_filters

 

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I think you first need to add the Ublock Origin extension to your Chrome browser (or Firefox). The Chrome Extension is here

 

After that I'm not sure, so over to @jimjam

 

Sorry for the slow reply.

 

Yes, that's correct.

 

1. Install the Ublock Origin extension:

 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

 

(It's an advertising blocker which is open source. I trust it not to do anything bad given the community of people studying the code. I used to use other blockers (adblock plus, etc.) but they all seem to have become somewhat shady.)

 

2. Once installed, click on Ublock Origin's icon (which may be found in the list of icons to the right of the URL bar in Chrome).

 

3. This will bring up a menu. Click on the "Open the dashboard" icon rightmost under the big 0/1.

 

4. Click on the tab "My filters".

 

5. Copy + paste the filters I listed into the text box.

 

6. Click on "Apply changes"

 

7. Close the dashboard tab

 

8. Reload https://finance.yahoo.com

 

You should have a minimalist experience with all the crap non-value-added pixels gone.

 

I did this as a quick hack for myself after the Google Finance fiasco... I'd welcome comments and suggestions for improvements if you find it useful.

[jimjam]

NB: The following message is superseded by the instructions here:

 

https://github.com/jimjamfinance/yahoo_finance_ublock_origin_filters

 

=============

 

I've now put the filter list on the web so that it's easy to push updates.

 

The following instructions replace the ones in the previous message.

 

1. Install the Ublock Origin extension:

 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

 

(It's an advertising blocker which is open source. I trust it not to do anything bad given the community of people studying the code. I used to use other blockers (adblock plus, etc.) but they all seem to have become somewhat shady.)

 

2. Once installed, click on Ublock Origin's icon (which may be found in the list of icons to the right of the URL bar in Chrome).

 

3. This will bring up a menu. Click on the "Open the dashboard" icon rightmost under the big 0/1.

 

4. Click on the tab "3rd party filters" and scroll all the way to the bottom to the text box under "One URL per line..."

 

5. Paste the following URL into the text box at the bottom:

 

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jimjamfinance/yahoo_finance_ublock_origin_filters/master/yahoo_finance.txt

 

6. Click on the "Apply changes" button in the upper right.

 

7. Close the dashboard tab

 

8. Reload https://finance.yahoo.com

 

You should have a minimalist experience with all the non-value-added pixels gone.

 

I did this as a quick hack for myself after the Google Finance fiasco... I'd welcome comments and suggestions for improvements if you find it useful.

[jimjam]

Instructions are now more nicely formatted here:

 

https://github.com/jimjamfinance/yahoo_finance_ublock_origin_filters

[jobyts]

Instructions are now more nicely formatted here:

 

https://github.com/jimjamfinance/yahoo_finance_ublock_origin_filters

 

Thank you so much. This is very helpful.

[LightWhale]

I'd welcome comments and suggestions for improvements if you find it useful.

 

Thanks a lot jimjam, Both for the work & for the detailed instructions.

It makes Yahoo Finance friendly & usable. 

The only drawback is that without the blocker, the right side of Yahoo Finance homepage shows all portfolios at once. Now this feature is gone.

Any easy way to bring it back?

[jimjam]

Thanks for your feedback, LightWhale.

 

I've updated the filters to take into account your request to bring back portfolio previews on the home screen's right hand column.

 

I've also fixed a few minor bugs.

 

To try this:

 

1. Go into the uBlock Origin dashboard -> 3rd-party filters and hit "Purge all caches" and then "Update now".

 

2. Wait a minute (you'll little spinners next to each list as they get refreshed).

 

3. Reload yahoo finance.

 

Please could you confirm the home page is now working as you expected?

 

Thanks,

[LightWhale]

I can confirm that you have performed some kind of magic  ;D

Myriad of thanks. Yahoo Finance has now become much better than Google Finance.

From this point it's easy, all I'm left to do is follow and buy the right stocks...

 

[jimjam]

You're welcome, LightWhale.

 

[Liberty]

Instructions are now more nicely formatted here:

 

https://github.com/jimjamfinance/yahoo_finance_ublock_origin_filters

 

Thanks for this, I appreciate it.

[Liberty]

https://avc.com/2018/04/google-finance/

[augustabound]

https://avc.com/2018/04/google-finance/

Maybe Fred can get us our Google finance back.  ;D

[Liberty]

https://avc.com/2018/04/google-finance/

Maybe Fred can get us our Google finance back.  ;D

 

I thought he was way too nice with them. He made it sound like it was a bit of a step back, rather than a complete clusterf****...

[tede02]

I've been playing around with Bloomberg's free watchlist. Appears better than Google or Yahoo.

[rb]

For some unknown reason the old site is working again. At least the canadian one finance.google.ca

[EliG]

For some unknown reason the old site is working again. At least the canadian one finance.google.ca

 

Doesn't work for me, and that's fine. With old Google Finance gone, I spend less time watching markets, which of course is a good thing. Thank you, Google.

[Liberty]

For some unknown reason the old site is working again. At least the canadian one finance.google.ca

 

Doesn't work for me. Could be some weird local datacenter that wasn't updated yet? Are you traveling?

[rb]

Nope, accessed from my computer in my home office north of Toronto. I've attached a clipping

google_finance.pdf

[jobyts]

Doesn't work for me, and that's fine. With old Google Finance gone, I spend less time watching markets, which of course is a good thing. Thank you, Google.

 

Same here. I am actually benefiting from the fact that less time is spent on watching the daily markets.

[Liberty]

Nope, accessed from my computer in my home office north of Toronto. I've attached a clipping

 

When I was in Toronto last month someone there told me that they were still on the old Google Finance too. Could just be a delayed local rollout for some random reason (they forgot to flip the switch in that datacenter?).

 

I wish they'd just turn it back on (even if they keep the new in-search stuff) and just put a couple engineers on the project of modernizing it (rewrite the flash graph engine in HTML5 and fix a few big bugs)...

[gary17]

i get the 'old' google finance if i sign-out from google

if i sign in , i get the new version. 

without signing in google tracks about a dozen stocks as 'recently' viewed... that's enough for me.. i only look at 10 at the most