Know more about My Watchlist

Thanks,

Adriana

Adriana - not sure if you had anything to do with getting the old PM back up, but thanks for any influence you may have had.  Because the old PM has been inaccessible for a week after announcing an imminent shutdown, it seems only fair to extend that deadline.  People are scrambling trying to get data out of the old PM, and it's just not a very friendly program in that regard.  Have you asked the programmers if there is a way we can export from the old PM to a data file like a CSV?

Also, please let the powers that be know that they are shutting down one of the best PM's on the internet in favor of a very mediocre and commonplace offering.  The usefulness is gone for me, and I will not be using the new My Watchlist.  I don't know what I will be using, but this whole scenario has really soured me and shaken my trust.  The old PM is a wonderful tool.  If it had been advertised better, I believe you would find you could attract a multitude of users to that platform.  The new My Watchlist looks way too much like everything else out there.

Thanks for being our sounding board.  I wish you were an MSN senior officer, so you could really get something done.

Ron

Hi Ron,

I'm glad the old PM page is back up and hope users will be able to import their data to the new platform or at least get a copy of what they need prior to the 22nd as it's going away for sure. You can definitely export the data by clicking on the Print Portfolio button. A table of the data is displayed, select the table (CTRL+A), copy (CTRL+C) and then paste it (CTRL+V) into Excel.

I have shared the issues and feedback to the product team for the last couple of months and they did implement several fixes on the new MyWatchlist since then and they will probably continue to do so but they are not going back to the old PM. It's going to be retired for good. Sorry.

Let me know if you have any difficulties importing or exporting the data.

Thanks,

Adriana

I have tried to use the new My Watchlist and have gone out to Morningstar to use their PM but none are as good as MSN PM.  For example, I was able to record every dividend, split, LT or ST Capital Gain distribution or other transaction under each stock or mutual fund in the old MSN PM.  I can't see how we do this under the new Watchlist or even Morningstar.  I tried to import from Excel using the .csv extension but it will only save active sheets and not workbooks.  The short of it is that MSN has ruined a great Portfolio Tracking Tool and has no idea of what they had.  Like others in this comment chain, I would have paid $50/year or maybe $100/year to keep this awesome tool.  Its a damn shame.

I finally was able to open the Old Portfolio today and copied stock holdings in to Excel.

Also went to the New Watchlist and used the link on the right  for more info on Watchlist to go to Troubleshooting and used the Retry Import.  It worked the second time I tried. 

The migration did not work until I deleted some of the individual portfolios with my Portfolio Manager apparently to get to an acceptable number of items to migrate.

I am partially satisfied. At least I have the latest portfolio information migrated into New Watchlist.

Adriana,

I finally was able to open the Old Portfolio today and copied stock holdings in to Excel.

Also went to the New Watchlist and used the link on the right  for more info on Watchlist to go to Troubleshooting and used the Retry Import.  It worked the second time I tried. 

The migration did not work until I deleted some of the individual portfolios with my Portfolio Manager apparently to get to an acceptable number of items to migrate.

So Thanks for your help and I am partially satisfied. At least I have the latest portfolio information migrated into New Watchlist.

Thanks for reporting back the somewhat good news, Micropfan.

Adriana

THE OLD PM IS BACK UP  !!!!!!!!!!!!!

and it was a very nice day for stocks.

Why oh why can't they just leave it alone??? Is it costing them money or something? It's so much better than Watchlist.

Thanks,

Adriana

Adriana - not sure if you had anything to do with getting the old PM back up, but thanks for any influence you may have had.  Because the old PM has been inaccessible for a week after announcing an imminent shutdown, it seems only fair to extend that deadline.  People are scrambling trying to get data out of the old PM, and it's just not a very friendly program in that regard.  Have you asked the programmers if there is a way we can export from the old PM to a data file like a CSV?

Also, please let the powers that be know that they are shutting down one of the best PM's on the internet in favor of a very mediocre and commonplace offering.  The usefulness is gone for me, and I will not be using the new My Watchlist.  I don't know what I will be using, but this whole scenario has really soured me and shaken my trust.  The old PM is a wonderful tool.  If it had been advertised better, I believe you would find you could attract a multitude of users to that platform.  The new My Watchlist looks way too much like everything else out there.

Thanks for being our sounding board.  I wish you were an MSN senior officer, so you could really get something done.

Ron

That covers it very well, Ron! It would only be fair to give us a time extension to manually extract our data before they sink the ship, but it doesn't look like that's their plan.