You people are really jerks! It took me 10 minutes to find a way to complain about the transfer of finances you're requiring from AOL to Yahoo. Your financial system stinks! I buy my stocks through DRIPs. I have no wish to deal with a crooked broker, who charges unnecessary fees. Further, when I transferred my AOL stock accounts to Yahoo, all the past info on purchasing a small amount of stocks each moth (via DRIPs) seems to have been lost.

If you're going to force AOL folks to use your Yahoo system, at least make that system as efficient as the old AOL system. This really angers me--that you don't give a **** about the small investor purchasing DRIPs.

Can you please STOP, STOP, STOP, auto playing videos on your Yahoo news home pages and your Yahoo news pages especially the ones titled 'Must see' which are repeated every time I log on to the Yahoo news website. These are so annoying. Can I please choose which videos I want to watch without you keep repeatedly auto playing them when I don't even want to watch them and especially when I'm trying to READ your news items. Please let me chose which videos I want to watch. That is the most annoying feature about the Yahoo news website. If you Google it you will see many other Yahoo users want to switch these off but can't. Can you please STOP auto playing your videos.

1. Make the value of my holdings two decimal places in the portfolio view. If I have fractional shares, the total value should be $4,567.89, not $4,567.8901. They stocks don't line up properly in portfolio view.
2. What happened to my trade/transaction date? That does not show anymore in portfolio view. I see it is there and the column is checked, but it doesn't show any more.
3. Let me go to MY defaul view, not your Summary View. And get rid of that freaking 4-step box every time I go to the view.
4. I can't reorder my stocks to show properly on my.yahoo page. It seems to reorder for stocks with no transactions (my watchlist), but when I have transactions entered, it won't show the correct order on My Yahoo.

Thanks for all your hard work on finance. I appreciate it and want to keep using it. I think these will make the experience better for everyone.

I must agree with most, that you took one of the BEST free portfolio functions on the web and turned it into one of the worst. However, I see the potential to add functionality that, to my knowledge, is only available for a fee or if you have an account with a broker. You may make your way back to the top, again, if you implement these before losing too many users.

For instance, when you open your new portfolio you get a view including multiple lines containing something that looks like dates, prices and quantities of shares traded. This mistake is easy to fix. Most investors aren’t interested in seeing some yet-to-be-identified history of the stocks in their portfolio. I would bet that more than 90% of all users of your Portfolio page want to see the collapsed display showing only the current data. If I want to see historical data, I expect to click on something else and wait for it to be displayed. That very easy change is a start to restoring some of the usefulness of the Portfolio tool.

Next, is your assumption that you are having dividends automatically reinvested. What if this is a growth and cash portfolio? You force the user to make rather stupid changes to THEIR portfolio, note that it’s not YOUR portfolio, it’s theirs, several times a year! I understand your intent, and your intent is GOOD. However, your implementation needs work.

The first thing you should do is put several posters in, and around the designers offices defining the “components” of the word “assume”. Write me if you don’t know them. Instead of making assumptions about your user’s desires, ask them! It’s very easy to do. In the field where the user identifies the stock they bought or already own and the stock pays dividends, ask them if they are having the dividends automatically reinvested. If they click “Yes”, look up the date, price and number of shares they will be buying, fill in that line, you’re done and everyone’s happy. If they click “No”, ask if they’re receiving the dividend. Again, if the say “Yes”, you’re done and again, everyone’s happy! If they say “No”, move it into the $$CASH field you used to have, but deleted for some unintelligible reason! Of course, this requires you reinstate the $$CASH feature, and the ability to create any number of cash accounts simply by prefixing the name with two dollar signs. Obviously, if the investor has multiple cash accounts, you’ll have to determine the account they want it in, but you should be able to determine the best way to do that. If you can’t, or would like my opinion, you know how to find me.

You can make these few changes, without an excessive amount of development time that will quiet a lot of those complaining about your new portfolio display. There are more changes if you’re willing to invest time for users (a.k.a. ad viewers and, some product buyers, thereby paying for your time).

If you could, I’d rather you not publish the rest. I don’t want to brag, just to show you I have significant experience designing and creating complex software systems. Most of my last 30 years, before becoming permanently disabled, were spent designing and developing software for complex, multi-processor life support equipment, including some inventions and industry firsts still in use. I actually had the wonderful privilege of seeing one of products I helped develop give my father-in-law six more months to live, after having had multiple heart attacks!