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It works, both desktop & android.

Thanks !

Same here.  Very unfortunate.  Alphapetical listing not useful.   I have a sense this will be fixed if you subscribe to premium.

Hi

in your message above you note that the following remains free-of-charge under the basic service:

- all news 

- general analysis about a broad theme or sector

- all articles on specific companies within 10 days of publication

- reading and writing comments on articles 


This unfortunately is not correct.  I've tried for weeks but can't access news or articles even on the day they are published. 

Since lots of people seem frustrated, could you please check your statement above and provide a general response at least to existing "basic" subsribers (like myself since 2014) so to not leave us in the dark?

Thanks

Final comment:   After playing around with it for several hours, the main issue regarding layout is really only the Summary tab when clicking on individual portfolios. Thats too number-focussed for a "summary page" and it hurts to look at.  If you took out the avg. daily volumes, high/lows, open/close then you could make space for the headlines/articles section on the right half of the screen, sort of like before.  That would largely solve it for me.

By the way...I would NEVER publish the # of shares I own in each of my stocks, hence my entire portfolio value, on a public website.  I might enter just 1 share to get some use out of it, but that sort of defeats the purpose.

Thats a useful work-around...although cumbersome to have to do that, when it was automatic before.

Kushal,

I appreciate your response and that you will fix the issue of opening a "new tab" when clicking on a link or article. Very important and a good start.

But, like others have also commented, I believe you misinterpret how many use "My Portfolio". I'm just going to boldly claim here that many SA users are reasonably professional investors and analysts, who have a range of other "investment tools" available, least of which their own Excel sheet, where they have the key portfolio data personalized to their needs. They will most probably also have an active trading/investing account at some bank, which will provide most of those metrics anyway, including # of shares, value of portfolio, avg. cost, highs/lows etc. Forcing them to essentially recreate another mirror portfolio of all that, complicates things unnecessarily and misses the point.
Even the collapsed mode, which leaves you with a summary of your trading-account portfolio (assuming you actually bothered to enter # of shares and keep updating that), is more of a distraction.

"My Portfolio" is/was mostly a very useful SMART-FILTER that groups qualitative and quantitative information on stocks of interest so you can enhance your understanding of those companies. The first entry view therefore needs to contain the key/new headlines and basic stock prices. Nothing more. Then you click and scroll from there. Any web designer on Seeking Alpha should keep that objective in mind.

Frankly if you care about daily trading volume and high/lo ranges of stocks flashing at you, just watch the tickers on Bloomberg or CNBC... Not saying thats useless, but please not on the FRONT page. When you pick up the Wall-Street-Journal, the daily trading metrics are also in the back pages.


If the idea here is to strategically capture the more novice/unprofessinal retail investor, you might well estrange a lot of your loyal customers. You have some truly great and very professional contributors on here that feed off a knowledgable readerbase, otherwise they also will stop writing articles...and that will continue to lower the common demominator.

Not trying to bash new ideas...Seeking Alpha is a great source of information and ideas that I use daily.  Thanks for giving it some thought

Forgot to mention, the "My Portfolio" page loads painfully slowly...because of all that unimporant data.  

When you then scroll down and click an article, even at that level, it doesnt open up a NEW TAB...  Very annoying.