Announcements of new features, or updates to existing features in StocksCafe
Recently, several popular US companies have underwent or will be having stock splits (e.g. AMZN, GOOG, SHOP). How to handle stock splits In StocksCafe, the “correct” way to handle stock splits are to simply create two transactions on the split date. Example: Amazon recently had a stock split on 6 June 2022 of 1:20. Let’s assume you have 1 share of Amazon bought at $2,500 on 1 June...
TLDR; StocksCafe is migrating to CoinGecko as our upstream cryptocurrencies data provider. How to migrate If you only hold popular cryptocurrencies (>5 followers in StocksCafe), then the migration is already done for you. You simply have to check if everything looks ok. That is, everything is in exchange CG (prefix CG:) and nothing is in exchange CC (prefix CC:). Please let me know if anything is...
Thank you once again to everyone who participated in the recent survey. There are so much that we learnt through this survey and we will slowly but surely incorporate most if not all of the learnings. Key Learnings: 1. many of StockCafe’s features are not used Essentially, most users only love/use the Portfolio Management feature and everything else can be a distraction. So, we will...
Not sure about you, but I was not one of the 8 winners for yesterday’s $19.4 Million Toto 🙁 If you did not win too, here is another chance! Simply take a few minutes to do a survey for StocksCafe and you can be one of the 10 lucky winners for 3 months of Global Friends of StocksCafe! Yes, we have increased the number of winners from 3 to 10 to increase your chances. With 116 responders so...
Happy Lunar New Year! One of the main focus of 2022 is to get more people to understand and appreciate the value that StocksCafe can bring to them. In order to do that, we would love to hear your thoughts! Therefore, it would be great if you could spare a few mins to do a survey. To thank you for your time, we will be doing a lucky draw and 3 winners will be awarded 3 months of Global Friends of...
One of the key focus for StocksCafe in 2022 is getting more people to understand and appreciate the value that StocksCafe can bring them. This is especially true for new users who just joined us. Hence, we just released a “Welcome Week” series that aims to help you better leverage StocksCafe in your investing journey. Over the course of 7 days, it will send a short private message...
StocksCafe is always doing its best to improve itself, and the latest addition to StocksCafe is indexes. You can view the list of indexes that is now supported by StocksCafe. For now, we have only added a few popular ones. If there are others that you would like to see, let us know and we will see if we can add it. What Can You Do With Indexes? You can use it as a benchmark if you like. Although...
One of the few processes in StocksCafe that has yet to be fully automated is the entering of transactions into StocksCafe. While we would love to make your investment journey as smooth as possible, it is not easy to get this data from most brokerages. Thankfully, there are some exceptions such as TD Ameritrade where the brokerage provides APIs for third-parties to easily and safely retrieve your...
It’s been a while since I shared a feature update. Again, this does not mean that I am not working hard on StocksCafe, it’s just that I did not want to disrupt you with too many emails. Talking about emails, one of the more popular features in StocksCafe is the daily (or weekly, depending on your settings) market update emails. I regularly get notified by users if that email is...
I am happy to share that StocksCafe now supports Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE)! This brings the total number of supported exchanges in StocksCafe to 10 – SGX, HKEX, KLSE, USX, LSE, TSE, SHE, SHG, BSE, and NSE! Of course, in addition to that, we also support Cryptocurrencies and Singapore Savings Bonds. If you know anyone that is investing in any of the...
