Hello,
I'm a beginner investor and CommSec user and I'm having some trouble with their watchlist feature. I used to have 2000 shares in a company that I bought for 0.475, I just acquired 286 more shares of theirs in a rights offer for 1.50. I don't seem to be able to have the same stock twice in the watchlist which i need to make my custom portfolio balance out. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Thank you for any help.
First post :)
dutchie
15th-February-2006, 08:33 PM
Yes that is a problem with Commsec.
One way around it (not necessarily a satisfactory one) is to average out the price.
123enen
15th-February-2006, 09:22 PM
I'm pretty certain that Dutchie's suggestion is the only way you can manage that on Comsec - you have to show the total number of shares and then the average price -if you want only one watchlist.
You could create another watchlist and have your second parcel of shares on the second watchlist. This is a little inconvenient because you cannot see the sum total of all your shares on one watchlist.
saichuen
15th-February-2006, 09:36 PM
yes, i have the same problem too. you can either average the price up/down as suggested or create another watchlist. but that wont give you the total in your portfolio statement either. :banghead:
what i did instead was to recreate all my watchlists in Yahoo Finance (australia/nz) as it does allow you to create two or more of the same stock within a watchlist. also, you can customize the columns to your own desire and have a more powerful chart tools compared to ComSec. all in all, it's a pretty cool all-in-one stop for your stock needs. the only setback is that there's a delay in the price update (about 1/2hr i think).
happy trading!
Adrian.
15th-February-2006, 10:13 PM
Thanks for the replies. I'll probably just average the price out but I'll keep yahoo finance in mind.
bullmarket
16th-February-2006, 08:11 AM
Hi Adrian
Hello,
I'm a beginner investor and CommSec user and I'm having some trouble with their watchlist feature. I used to have 2000 shares in a company that I bought for 0.475, I just acquired 286 more shares of theirs in a rights offer for 1.50. I don't seem to be able to have the same stock twice in the watchlist which i need to make my custom portfolio balance out. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Thank you for any help.
First post :)
In addition to the other suggestions, if you know how to use a spreadsheet like Excel then setting up a spreadsheet to monitor/manage your portfolio is quite simple.
You can customise the spreadsheet to have a separate entry for each parcel of shares you have in a company...ie...rights issues, DRP etc etc and all sorts of other things.
