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Sorry, not pure TA, but worth knowing about–this is up there with the Edsel and New Coke disasters, except it’s financial website stuff. For up to 20 yr, as you all probably know, various semipros even pros have routinely used finance.yahoo.com despite self-destructive Improvements. It has now made itself useless. Comments–including one made by I think **the** Bollinger of band fame–are the most uniformly derogatory of any comments I (or any of the commentators) have ever seen anywhere. Worth looking at for the coments because: one of the greatest disasters of web history if not the absolute greatest (unless they switch back instantly). See comments to
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-finances-look-000000816.html
Compare the self-sabotaged finance.yahoo.com to the still-intact
ca.finance.yahoo.com fr.finance.yahoo.com uk.finance.yahoo.com which are like the undestroyed version other than that they lack the message boards.
These 3 still have lots of fundamental financial info easy to get to. They still have the ability to enter dozens of symbols at a time that can be saved for a spreadsheet to be analyzed with one’s own TA. No need to disable scripts and privacy blockers and ad blockers etc. (Unfortunately because of a past Improvement they lost the ability for one to enter simultaneously many symbols and get back charts with SMAs, Bollinger bands, volume–but they’re still great–for the moment.)
Again, a little off topic, but >3 sigma financial web disaster history in the making. Glance at those comments if you have time.
Addendum 1: A commentator states that tomorrow is the deadline for bids for Yahoo’s sale. Various comments speculate about deliberate self-sabotage since finance.yahoo.com is arguably Yahoo’s #1 product. I doubt, but one can play around in one’s imagination.
2: Following previous generally deleterious prior Improvements, albeit generally minor ones, to finance.yahoo.com, I’ve written them asking them to give better warnings; also asked for the ability to pay to keep the old services or something like them. From the comments on https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-finances-look-000000816.html I infer that other people have written them similarly in the past. It’s not a matter of people feeling entitled to free content without getting ads. It’s a matter of people depending on financial information for their family’s well-being and suddenly being deprived of the information because of grotesque web Pokezombenit-wittery or worse, despite having offered to pay for reliable continuity services.
I agree 100%- Have been using Yahoo to follow portfolios for years- They have totally wrecked it. I’ve been trying out Google, but I really liked Yahoo Finance, and I have years of portfolios stored there. I did look at the comments, and they are overwhelmingly negative, I agree with every one.
I dislike the new website too. Thanks for the links to the unchanged versions!
Very irritating. I’ve tried using Market Watch as an alternative.