Then how come my portfolio, which has transactions going back to 2005 only calculates results from the day I made my stockalicious account, less than one year ago?

I went to performance and clicked "max" on the chart. It gave me less than one year-- only back to August, 2007. Then I clicked on "settings" and clicked "2 years" (unfortunately that was the longest time frame there), and it still only showed back to August, 2007.

Just so we're on the same page, I'm looking at this portfolio of yours:
http://www.stockalicious.com/portfolio-performance/1937

The zoom function is not for you to select the time period. It's for you to zoom in and out of the selected time period.

Since the settings by default choose 1y, the Max is the 1y view. If you select 6m in settings, then the Max is 6m. Similarly, if you select 2 years in settings, then the Max is 2y.

Unfortunately, for free accounts, the maximum performance review is for the past 2 years.

If you want to see your performance from the beginning (2005), you need to upgrade to a paid account such as the Pro account (which will be available very soon) - which allows you to review up to 5 years ago.

We cannot offer more than 2 years for free accounts because it is very computationally intensive to generate performance reports. So yeah, unless Microsoft buy us over, it's unlikely that we can offer more than 2 years for free accounts.

So the earliest performance you can review is Aug 6, 2006, which is what you get when you select 'Past 2 years' under Settings.

I see that your account is a Basic account. So you should have no problem viewing your past 2 years performance.

So if you import all of your transactions from 5 years ago, we'll show you the performance of your portfolio since 5 years ago.

That is how awesome our service is.

This would have been awesome.


If you want to see your performance from the beginning (2005), you need to upgrade to a paid account such as the Pro account (which will be available very soon) - which allows you to review up to 5 years ago.

Hmm...

Oh, well. I guess I'll continue my search for a convenient way to calculate my portfolio's return elsewhere.

chill out guys. I'm furious. I'm No. 1.

We are very interactive here. We listen to our users.

Since you guys clamored for it, I've upgraded the Basic Account.

Now, all basic account users can view up to 3 years. I think that should be more than enough for most retail investors.

As much as we hate charging for users, we need to if you want us to continue improving this site.

Of course, if you want this service to be free, you can find us a sugar daddy.

We are not Mother Teresa. You find us a sugar daddy and we give you lots and lots of cool portfolio analytics features :)

I have only begun implementing some of the most intense portfolio analytics features that will blow your mind. So be prepared to get your mind blown away.

/Furious

Of course we're not expecting a "Mother Teresa". It's just that I was kind of expecting that the stuff you'd show us our performance from uh... the time frame you said you would in the first post.

Three years isn't enough for me to know what my actual return has been, but if there's a way to put the 3-year graph into a widget or link directly to it, I'll send some traffic this way from my blog. You guys like traffic, right?

Ok. I've edited the first post to better reflect the situation.

Actually, based on our records, most of our users import less than 2 years of past transactions, which was why we chose 2 years as the cut off point.

Yes. We like traffic. Let me update the blog widget to allow up to 3 years of performance chart.