Last week, I spent some time improving Stock Screener. This week, I took time to focus on Portfolio Report & My Dashboard.
Apart from various tweaks here and there, I would like to bring your attention to two updates:
1) Customize Baseline: Previously, the performance of portfolios were compared against SGX:ES3 as the baseline. Now, you can customize and set the baseline to be any stock supported by StocksCafe. In addition, based on feedback I received, I have also made it such that you can even set a different baseline for different portfolios. Go set them up and see how each of your portfolios fare against their respective baselines!
2) Annual Income: I wanted a more compete overview of my personal finance, so I added another graph in My Dashboard which will show the annual income. My recommendation for using this is: Create a new asset and name it Me, then add in your annual salary on 31 Dec every year. You will then be able to see how your total annual income (Stocks + Other Assets) changes over time!
What do you think of these changes and additions? Let me know if you have any suggestions to make them better!
Happy investing!
In my opinion, income should include
– Dividends received
– Profit/loss from closed positions
– Salary etc income
– Profit/loss from other investments
I don’t expect to see the changes in the “market value of my portfolio” as income until I sell/realize the profit or loss.
I am just an engineer… I might be wrong LOL
Can there be multiple baseline in the report?
“Can there be multiple baseline in the report?” => Technically possible but troublesome to change at this point. Also, visually, might be hard to display/align.
I don’t expect to see the changes in the “market value of my portfolio” as income until I sell/realize the profit or loss. => This is actually a good point. Maybe I should remove Unrealized P&L. What do others think?
Yep, capital gains/losses should not be treated as income.
Done. Removed unrealized P&L.
It might be useful to show “how much of my income I have invested” in that year. It can be shown in a clustered bar chart (if it is not too painful technically)
https://imgur.com/a/UPSkY4s
Invested means the cost to obtain the income?
Apologies for the incorrect graph at imgur.
For example my income is 80 K. I have invested 30 K. Spent the remaining 50K. The bar will have 2 colours. 50K + 30K stacked. Total will be 80K. That graph will show our savings vs income per year.
Hmm.. Do not understand. “Spent the remaining 50K.” => How would SC know this? 🙂
SC knows the income and invested amount. What happens to the remaining money? Goes under the pillow? 🙂
lol. Well.. More precisely, the remaining is non-invested/non-accounted money, people can do many things with that money including putting them under the pillow and hide them from SC 🙂
Anyway, would you like to consolidate the discussion into a feature request?
thanks evan! could i check if there is a feature to show the watchlist: individual shares against my price alert level?
Not that I remember. Would you like to create a feature request for that? Also, I am not sure what is the best way to do this within the current framework.
ad Customize Baseline: great, thanks, I’ve been waiting for this.