Know more about My Watchlist

Sorry for the delayed response.  Adriana is currently indisposed and will return soon.

Please follow the steps advised by Ravinath P, Microsoft Moderator

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/newmsn/forum/newmsn_browse-newmsn_watch/unable-to-migrate-my-portfolios/0848dbb6-cc4c-400e-ba9d-6a43d4ead3b7

If you continue to experience issues, please post a New Thread.  Include the steps you've taken to alleviate the issue. 

Thank you.

I do not know where the ‘new thread’ is located.  This ‘Know More about your Watchlist’ is the thread with more than 5000 entries, followed by many users.  At least 4 more threads are dealing with the same problem, without solution.

The MSN Portfolio has not been available since early morning hours of Friday Dec 12.

No one has been able to import/export since that time, including use of the ‘retry import’ function at http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/watchlist/migrationsupport.

In my case, I migrated on Dec 11.  I cannot now access the MSN portfolio to learn whether my share balances are correct.  On Dec 11, in MSN Portfolio, I changed all ‘capital gains’ transactions to ‘reinvest dividend’, and all exchange type transactions to ‘buy’, and ‘sell’, then migrated. 

Yet, most of the separate portfolios still say ‘some transactions are invalid’.  Two of my portfolios do not say ‘invalid’.  What is the difference in these transactions?   They all look ok., the same 3 transaction types.

This collection of portfolios seems to be useless, compared to the former MSN Portfolio which had all my holdings in one Portfolio.

I have so far found no way to ‘add a transaction’ in the new Watchlists.  I have found no way to print an end of month report.

I am headed over to the Museum at Normandy, and tomorrow will be going to the Cemetery and battlefield beaches at Normandy.

This portfolio issue is interfering with my vacation.

Is there a cost to the new msn money watch list the old one was free

Tell us how to fix the software as we have had success with the old watchlist MSN tells us to migrate and the instruction to do that does not work, just like 1,000 others we only get a run-around, who ever is working in the software department must have a solution, PLEASE PLEASE HELP US OUT< If it is not solved I will be going to trade-station or interactive broker and get others to us there platform,call me <PII removed>

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