Know more about My Watchlist

I cannot access my old MSN Money Portfolio. Keep getting pop up stating 'problem with online service'. Everything is blank in old portfolio. Watchlists all incomplete. How can I get original information from original portfolio?  I know it is closing down on Dec. 22nd so I need access to move stocks to new portfolio but I can't locate them.  Are they stored someplace that I can access?.

When I try to migrate to Watchlist (even after creating new or deleting original watchlists) It does not even find the data from "My Portfolio".  It is like "My Portfolio" is invisible to it, even though I've had it for 15 years plus.   Followed all of the troubleshooting directions for migration.  It just does not find data from "My Portfolio", it just doesn't work.  Support links and telephone numbers just put you in a loop back to here.  There is no support.  Retry import link doesn't work.   I have all sorts of .MNY and .MNB portfolio data files on my hard drive, why don't they have it migrate the data from the latest one of those??  They shouldn't have told us we had until Dec 22 to migrate.  To me it looks like you had to do it before Dec 12 or you are doomed.

Click "My View" when youre in the Morningstar Portfolio Manager.  Then click "My View 1" and you see the Morningstar default view.  Now click "Customize My View" on the far right to change columns in View 1.  Morningstar provides many column choices, but "Unrealized Gain/Loss Since Purchase ($)" is their only choice they have to see the dollar gain or loss.  They dont have a "Daily Gain/Loss ($)" option.  I want to see how much I made or loss for the day.  MSN provides this information in both the old and new PMs. 

Yes, they do have a "$ Day Change" option. Works.

Thanks, a couple others already let me know.  I kept missing it when I read down the list.   Duh

I have been using Portfolio Manager since 1999. It was free and simply the best of its kind. Over the years the PM underwent several changes - all of them for the worst.

I am a programmer turned trader. As a programmer and a user I was puzzled and annoyed to see how incompetent MSN Money programmers were. But I stayed on-board because there weren't other alternatives that I knew and I just got used to it.

Over the years I have made thousands of trades. In the last days of the PM I took upon myself to take screen shots of the trades that I had made. It took me hours and I wasn't even 20% done.

With the PM now gone, I have 15 years of data lost.

The new watchlist is a joke. Anybody can write html based quotes list. But the best ones are Java, Flash or in the old PM case, asp based. So folks, don't go to Yahoo, Morningstar, Google or any place that was suggested in this forum. They are nearly worthless. Their functionality and user interface is far inferior to good portfolio managers. Find a good portfolio manager, even if you have to pay $50 for it. It's worth it. I had done some research about it a long time ago and there are many of them.

This is my last post about this. If my post will be deleted because of my rebuke it just shows how low has Microsoft gone.

I have two machines - a Windows one and a Linux one. I kept the Microsoft one almost entirely because of the PM. I am done with Microsoft. There's a reason why Microsoft stagnated over the years and why Apple has become so successful and big that it could swallow Microsoft now.

I have no more expectations from Microsoft anymore. I just hope that the protests of the people here will reach some ears at Microsoft and will cause some change.

I wish everybody good luck. There is life after Microsoft.

Signing out,

Sam

I've done some research as well but can't find any that will show all of your portfolios on one page like Money PM did. Please let us know if you find something you like, preferably one that will give you an integrated as well as individual look at your investments. thx