Tomorrow, Nov. 9th, we will roll out revised ETF Performance and RSF Trends pages.  Nothing real new with the data, just a continuation of the new look we introduced with the Moving Average pages a few weeks back.  However, existing links will not work directly with the new pages due to the menu changes.  They will be auto-converted and you will be given the option to continue to the new page.  After that, you will probably want to save the new link to avoid the extra step.  If you want a sneak peak you can take a look at the revised ETF Performance Page and maybe try out your saved links by changing ‘etfperf.php’ to ‘etfperf2.php’.  The new RSF Trends page can be seen here.   The other performance pages will be updated later this week.

If you see any issues with these new layouts please let us know with a comment or an email.

Also, beginning tomorrow we will be updating data every 30 minutes during the trading day. This has been an issue for a while for some of you and we are glad to be able to add these additional updates due to your continued support.  The schedule will begin with our current 9:55 am ET update and continue through 3:25 pm.  Then we will have our regular 3:45 update prior to market close and our 4:16 update after market close.  The nightly update will continue as it has, at about 10:30 ET.

Enjoy, and let us know what you would like to see.  We have some changes coming for the Screener next.

Several of you have asked for an easy and straight forward way to get a list of funds above or below some moving average.  This has always been available from the screener,  but that was more cumbersome than it needed to be for this simple task.  What has not been available is a list of funds Crossing-Over or Crossing-Under their moving average on a particular day.  That is – until now!  You are encouraged to check out our new Moving Average Comparison page, and let us know what you think.

In addition to the moving average data, I’d appreciate some feedback regarding the menu above the table.  While similar to the one on other site pages, we have changed the Short Funds and Leveraged Funds selection options, per user request.  The new menu does provide more selection with only two options, but might not be totally clear.  Since we will soon be rolling out new versions of all the legacy tables on the site we would like to address an issue now rather than later.

We really value your input and your support.

We’re making a few changes to the site, including the additon of this blog.  If you’re not into following blog postings don’t fear, I don’t foresee  this being a high volume blog; but there are a few thoughts I’d like to present and the blog structure makes publishing fairly painless.

Those of you that accessed the Screener this morning should have seen that we’ve added some new fields and made other minor changes.  The fields that you might be interested in include a full spectrum of APR values, from 1 day to 1 year.  Some of the active traders asked for this a while back, a few problems later and it’s finally here.  We’ve also expanded the SMA series with values from 10 days to 200.

The addition I’m most excited about is the new Portfolio Feature.  It still has a little fine tuning to be done but really needs some usage and testing.   Some people call them watch lists and others call them portfolios.  Whatever you call it, you can now create your customized list, or lists, and always have them easily accesible.  Of course this requires a free registration and a login so we know who’s portfolios are who’s, but that’s a small price to pay for the convenience.  The really neat thing about the new portfolio feature is that you can select your own columns of data along with your own default sort order.  So register, then log-in, and create your own Portfolio.

While you’re waiting on that registration email check out a couple of portfolios that I created.  They’re nothing special, just demonstrating what can be done.

Most Active funds with a default layout.  This is a new version table showing the old default columns.  This is a good place to point out that portfolios are more or less public and you can easily share a link with you email or discussion list friends.  You will see above the top right corner of the table a link to Personalize this Portfolio.  Once you are logged in you can make changes to my portfolio and save it as your own.  If this were your portfolio you would have a link in this same location to Edit the Portfolio.

My Country Funds TA portfolio is a list of Single Country funds with an assortment of Technical Indicators shown.  This table is sorted by the 2-day RSI value by default, but you can sort by any column just like you could with the legacy tables.

To access your portfolios just go to the My Pages link on the header navigation bar.  Where, you ask?  Right next to the Blog link – but you’ve got to be logged in.

That’s enough to get you started.  Please share your comments so we can solve any annoyances and stomp out any bugs that might be hiding.   I’ve just noticed  a little problem with background colors when values are missing, so no need to point that one out.  I’m sure there are more.