Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Change of Portfolio tracker tool

There seems to be a dearth of simple, web-embeddable trackers covering international equities. The FT have the international bit covered but nothing easy to run in a web page. The new tool provisionally settled upon in the margin at right is from "Stockalicious" and does not solve this problem.

It does, however, appear to have a more complete database of US listings than its predecessor. Alongside this, wherever possible, the ADR or ADS for a foreign holding has been used after appropriate fx and size translations.

Stockalicious also has decent enough summary performance statistics and readily malleable graphs. Basic stuff but all at the click, in the DBS case, of a link.

NB: There are 4 round trip trades since August 2008 on the Toronto exchange not reflected after the adoption of this new tracker. All are closed for an aggregate loss of CAD$1661.