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To: CatLady who wrote (1620)	7/17/1998 12:29:00 AM
From: Peter V	Respond to of 4634

THanks, CL - I knew there had to be a better way. And you can add initial price and dates in too. Only thing you can't do is put in a sell date, but I guess you could reduce the share count to zero and put that date and sale price in the portfolio. White Shoes' e-mail list has its advantages too, so you don't have to check the portfolio on a regular basis. But then again, if you had a website, or a thread like Roger's analysis, you could link all the posts with your analysis of that stock, which you can't do with a simple portfolio. Several options here.

To: CatLady who wrote (1620)	7/17/1998 1:51:00 AM
From: White Shoes	Respond to of 4634

CL, I've been thru all this (see my thread), trying several different portfolio managers. For example, I shared my portfolio by posting the URL for the Quicken/Excite portfolio I was using at the time. But that option was not secure, the portfolio got changed and someone could theoretically hack my Excite account so I deleted it. I now use the Yahoo! portfolio feature. While it is not shareable in the same way as SI's, it is much better than SI's. For example, purchase price, market capitalization, P/E ratio, 52-week high and low, can all be useful info. The total value of the portfolio is crucial. None of these things are very handy though. When you buy and sell you have to calculate the changes in cash manually.