Comments on: Real-time stock quotes on the house

By: Ahse

Ahse — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:29:39 +0000

Yahoo finance..!

Thanks for reading..

By: Cire Gastag

Cire Gastag — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:33:15 +0000

Mark,

One more item.

The MESSAGE BOARDS and SPAM.

I’m surprised anyone still goes to the boards because it’s inundated with spam messages.

I just don’t understand why Yahoo just does what every other message board does – and that is to not allow similar messages to be posted (go to Craigslist to see).

It would STOP the spam. I can go to a board and have to read thru five posts before I get a nonspam message related to the actual stock.

Please fix this. For our sake. For your sake because Google Finance or someone else is going to come along and quickly erode the user base that you’ve taken a decade to build.

By: Cire Gastag

Cire Gastag — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:29:37 +0000

Mark,

Also on streaming quotes, it defaults to ON if you open a new tab (in firefox) or close and reopen your browser. I spend my life turning it OFF.

By: Cire Gastag

Cire Gastag — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:27:29 +0000

Mark,

Could you please change the following, not just for myself, but many other people are annoyed by the following.

Streaming quotes defaults to “ON”.
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There’s a delay to have it initialize. If you list 20+ stocks at once and it’s turned “on”, it will significantly slow down my computer. And it’s annoying to have those flashing lights.

Please allow us to permanently turn it off. Maybe an option in user settings. I’m tired of having to constantly deal with it.

Interactive Graph Issues
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I prefer to use the basic graph 90%+ of the time. It loads instantly I find it easier to read. The problem is that, like streaming quotes, anytime I exit my browser or open a new tab, the graph defaults to Interactive (when I click on the graph on the summary page).

Also, if I click any timeframe on the graph on the summary chart (1d 5d 3m 1y, etc), it will take you to the interactive chart and display 1 year. Always. It’s just plain annoying.

Please fix these things.

thanks.

By: Andrew Shieh

Andrew Shieh — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:10:41 +0000

There’s still a bug in Y! Finance (at least showing in mac safari 3 and mac firefox 2) where pushing the command key changes focus to the “get quotes” box, and if you’re scrolled down, this scrolls you up to the top of the page. This makes it impossible to command-click on links to open them up in separate tabs.

By: Shreyas

Shreyas — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:21:14 +0000

If we hav the real time quotes, then why do we need the delayed quote?

By: Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:12:27 +0000

Way to go Mark!

By: Brewer

Brewer — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:25:30 +0000

Will you be offering the real time quotes in .csv format for downloading any time soon? Thanks.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:26:02 +0000

Yeah, finance.yahoo kicks ass. Better than ‘the competition’ in many ways; I’ve tried switching, but always come back to finance.yahoo at the end.

Keep at it!

By: i agree with above

i agree with above — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:32:46 +0000

ya, i agree with above.

YHOO finance is the brightest spot in the whole YHOO network….and the one area where I haven’t switched from YHOO to GOOG.

By: Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast

Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:24:40 +0000

Many thanks for the value-add – much appreciated. Beats the pants off of the other services offering quotes with delays.