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Written: Jun 17 '00 (Updated May 07 '01)
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Pros: portfolio tracker, news, indices, columnists
Cons: tracking of sales gains/losses weak
The Bottom Line: This is a good site for tracking your portfolio.
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| nwinston's Full Review: MoneyCentral by Microsoft |
I use the MSN MoneyCentral website daily during the
week. The information the MoneyCentral Portfolio
tracker provides keeps me up to date, minute by minute
with stock market changes.
The main attraction for me at the MoneyCentral site is
a great portfolio tracking feature for my investments.
You can enter stocks you own, buy, sell or want to watch.
You are allowed to organize the stocks into different
named accounts to keep track of them. You can choose
to have the prices automatically update every 5 minutes.
Several features of the tracker are configurable. You can
group and list your stocks by security type, capitalization,
currency, risk and position as well as by account. You
can configure the columns of info displayed, both by width
and by which columns to show.
There are news and info items posted for stocks. Active
stocks can have several items listed per day, inactive stocks
may have info shown infrequently. These items come from
wire services and give you up to date news on stocks you are
interested in.
There is an analysis menu which offers comprehensive info on
your stocks. You can get detailed company info, snapshots,
historical charts, intraday charts, financial results, insider
trading details, SEC filings or use the research wizard.
The wizard is helpful for getting data on companies you are
thinking of buying. It tells you what the company does, what
sales and earnings are, growth rate, profit margin, debt
position, stock price history and the stock price's support
and resistance levels. Also available are stock price targets
and catalysts which would cause analysts to change their
opinions on the stock.
The portfolio tracker has news and fyi alerts posted several
times daily. A couple of times, the news alerts have given
me information that helped me make money saving decisions.
Every few days or so, the tracker prompts me to save my data.
I can restore from the old saved data if I ever need to.
My only complaint with the tracker concerns sales. When
you sell an investment, the gain/loss is no longer tracked
in your total gain percentages. I would like year to date
and lifetime to date gain/loss percentage and totals to be
tracked.
I really enjoy reading Jim Jubak's columns on MoneyCentral.
They are well written and researched. I have made good
decisions based on his advice. Jubak's Journal has advice
which is somewhat value investment based but he also focuses
on particular segments of the market for timeliness. He has
been heavily invested in high tech this past year. He puts
together model portfolios and also discloses his positions
in the issues. It seems that he posts articles every 4 days
or so.
There are other columnists, website links and advice listed
in the Insight section of the MSN MoneyCentral site. There
are also sections for breaking market news and fund research.
When the markets are open, I rely on this site. It is always
dialed in on one of my browser windows. The breaking news
items have saved me more than once this year as companies
post earnings warnings. Selling before the crowd can lock in
a profit. The up to date information available here makes me
a loyal user.
Recommended:
Yes
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