Know more about My Watchlist

My MS Watchlist started working today. It had been frozen on the default watchlist since DEC 22. Now I can access all of my watchlists and tabs and I can access all of my transaction history. Thank you microsoft.

In order for Watchlist to be useful for me I need to be able to see all of my holdings on one screen with a total for the whole portlolio and a way to print that screen. I will continue to update my watchlist in the hope that MS will improve the functionality but will use Sigfig for daily monitoring. Unfortunately that is double work for me.

A quick update to our Community of Disgruntled Users:  I have been in touch with Financial Times's Customer Service team.  I have suggested to them that, with relatively little work on their side, they can upgrade their current portfolio manager to emulate all of the functions that we've come to know and love in the dearly Departed MSN Portfolio Manager.  FT has offered to call me to discuss my ideas in real time, and I'm hoping to schedule this call for some time this week.  I'll keep you posted on developments.

I would urge *all* of you to contact the Financial Times.  If we can show them sufficient demand, they will quickly see the cost-benefit of taking Microsoft's place as the best-of-breed portfolio manager on the Internet. 

By the way, I have also urged FT to consider running a news article on the recent fiasco here in Microsoft Money-land.  I've pitched them that such an article would appeal to many people who either manage their own investments, are interested in Microsoft's activities, or both.  If you agree with my line of thinking, I would urge each of you to reach out to FT and express your interest in such an article. Again, if they see high demand, the chances improve that they'll follow up on this issue.  Some public exposure might be the only thing that can possibly move Microsoft to address our concerns.  

As I've expressed in numerous earlier posts, I would very much prefer to discuss my concerns with Microsoft rather than with FT.  But Microsoft has been consistently unresponsive, and to date they have failed/refused to engage with us.   I renew my sincere appeal to Microsoft management:  If you're listening, PLEASE either disinter the beloved Portfolio Manager, or, at least, explain to us why you can't/won't do so.

As i said earlier, I selected the "dont include dividends" option in FT.com and dividends no longer appear in my portfolios.  I have only a mutual fund outside my tax deferred tax accounts that reinvests dividends.  For that holding, I do a manual purchase in FT.com each month to record the stock acquired by the reinvested dividends.  Also, I cant compare the dividends in FT.com with my brokerage account because I dont have any stock holdings that reinvest dividends.  Sorry, I cant help you.

Perhaps, send an email to ******@ft.com and ask them?

I gave a quick look at Morningstar, Google and Yahoo and I dont think they offer a dividend reinvestment option.

Also, if youre not afraid to link to your brokerage accounts, have you looked at Personal Capital?

http://cashcowcouple.com/service-reviews/personal-capital-review/

The calculated daily value change drops off the website pretty early on FT.com.  Maybe because FT.com is based in Britain?  I think around 9pm on the west coast zeros start to appear in the daily value change column.  On the east coast its probably not an issue.  Also, once the daily value drops off, it doesnt come back until the next trading day, which means no daily change values over the weekend.  Which is not good.  However, the cumlative gain or loss does not drop off and you have the option to see returns for various time periods such as 5 day, one month, 3 months etc.

For me, FT is alot better than Morningstar, especially since i have many portfolios and want to see how they are doing on a summary page (the desktop).  I have spent more time with FT.com and I find it simpler than Morningstar.  So give more time to both and see which one you like?

I also sent a complaint to Microsoft Investor Relations a couple weeks ago.  Why dont you move on to a good portfolio manager (eg. FT.com)?  The new PM will be a piece of junk for a long time to come.

Just saying......

OK, TW - I've been migrating (hahaha) over to FT. Spent many hours over the weekend entering transactions (can I bill Microsoft for this?). Glad I wrote that stuff down the previous weekend before the dearly departed Portfolio Manager disappeared. Yes, you do have to do a bunch of clicking to go way back! I like the way it accommodates all transaction entries, and seems to keep good track of ongoing gains and losses (though the dividend business is a little confusing). But I'm keeping my Morningstar portfolio list up to date, too. I think it's maybe clearer for showing the day's activity, and printing a daily report out. FT doesn't lay things out quite so simply. And of course doesn't give you the option to list/sort by symbol instead of name. And today a couple of its reports were even wrong! Showed correct closing price, but not the day's change $/%. Oops! So I guess I'll keep entering my transactions into it - MSN Watchlist is a farce - but not sure I'm done with Morningstar. And just can't take on new options like CNN or Google after all this...

Best wishes to all.