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[zmp (Mike)]

Even now it’s annoying because e.g the stock price hasn’t moved but sterling dropped to the dollar, and then it is shown as a profit. It’s not.

But that’s exactly the same issue as as divis. I’m not against it showing a price change in the main portfolio list, but int the detail page it’s wrong. Mind you, maybe it’s just a case of labelling? FT are showing price change but labelling it as Investment gain / loss, which is something completely different.

I used to track my portfolio with ShareScope until it became ridiculously expensive, which did show me the real “Investment gain/loss” (now I use Excel).
ADVFN’s portfolio tracker similarly breaks it down nicely: %price change on the portfolio table (like FT), and unrealised profit + realised profit = total profit on the detail page if you click on a share (unlike FT).

Let’s ignore price changes: If I buy £1k and get paid £50 in dividends then I have a £1000 unrealized and £50 realized value, a total of £50 Investment Gain/Loss, not zero.