MarketWatchReviews 76

MarketWatch is a great website and game that allows people to practice investing but why is it that you have literally the worst connection service out of every single website ever created? I log in for 5 seconds and when i click on the search bar to type in a company, " GATEWAY TIME-OUT", so I refresh the page,
"GATEWAY TIMEOUT". Over and over again it does this because your website is so bad! FIX YOUR CONNECTION SO PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY USE OUR GAME!

While no market watcher has a crystal ball, another reviewer nailed this site as "Doom and Gloom". It would be one thing if these prognostications proved accurate at least half of the time, however, I suspect that the editorial policy is to avoid upside opinions that ultimately disappoint in favor of discouraging ones that allow MW to say "I told you so" when the market tanks. I almost never take their comments to heart. They are frequently out of sync with the majority of experts.

Im trying to join games n $#*! but this $#*!ty $#*!ing website is actual aids. Its search function is $#*!ing broken, and when you do try to join a game it $#*!ing rapes you without consent n wont let you join even though youre pressing buttons n $#*! i want to strangle the piece of $#*! who made this website $#*! you i hope you find your wife getting $#*!ed by tyrone while youre gone cuz your $#*! dont work no more cuz you created this $#*!ty $#*!ing website plz do a backflip off a build you $#*! 1/10

This has been my experience with Marketwatch website:
I have been on Marketwatch website for several years. Their website steadiness is very squirrely. When you try to stay within the Quotes RECENT section, their ads to the right, above the Quotes pops up and slows down the site. It doesn't stay steady. It happens all the time. It requires lots of scrolling back and forth to get to the section you want. Sometimes you can't open Popular Stocks. It doesn't go to that section. You have to click it several times. Sometimes the site takes forever to open. I have contacted my server and was told that the slowness is coming from Marketwatch website. I don't find this to be an issue with Yahoo, Benzinga, Morningstar and other financial sites.
Regarding their headline articles, they are manipulative and compelling only to find what is said in their headline has no merit to the article and the article is often not substantive in content or facts. It's a headline tease. Many of their articles are opinionated rather than informative and thought provoking. I have switched to Yahoo Finance website as it is easier to navigate, has fewer technical hick ups, provides some good articles and offers a lot more financial analysis.

Agree with previous post- in general a good new source. The "elephant in the living room" is the extreme measure they take to prevent negative comments to articles posted at the Trading Deck. There are several contributors who have incredibly poor records in terms of providing investment advice (that have certainly emptied more than just a few brokerage accounts) that provide articles regularly. If a commenter posts a negative review, or simply points out the actual (very poor) guidance that the contributor has provided, they will either see their post deleted or their ability to log into the site discontinued.

I use MarketWatch every day that the markets are open. It has more information than I could ever use, but it is there if you need to find it. The lay out is pretty good as far as ease of navigating. It reads kind of like a news paper, with current news and market conditions always available. All in all, I like this site except for one feature. There is a row of trading site advertisements across the main page. When you move your cursor over them... and you don't even have to stop on them... those ads immediately drop down to capture your screen, which then moves what you are navigating down to look at, further down off your screen. Then when you move off the ads, they pull back up which then moves what you were looking for off your screen once again. I find this "in your face" advertising method very annoying and counter productive for the site user. If I want to see what any of those trading sites have to offer, all I need do is click on them. I don't need them hijacking my screen. Other than that, MarketWatch is a very good site.

Not only do they prevent sign on IDs of those who disagree with their wall st promotional style but they have now gone a step further. While allowing sign on everytime a person is signed on they attack the PC by making all web browser jitter and shake. I first thought this was my keyboard with a sticking key until killing the webrowser connected to marketwatch.com immediately stopped the problem. I retried this a number of times on consecutive days with the same result. I guess they will go to all kinds of lengths to promote their views of the stockmarket only.

This website is an arm of the wall st journal. It promotes the interests of wall st by only allowing positive views on the comments to its published articles. Those that do react negatively are censored by not allowing them to post even though they are recognised by a sign in name they are told to select an id name. When they try to do so the website ends with a blank page. All attempts to contact as to the meaning of the problem are ignored. My only understanding is that they deliberately censor people by removing their abilityto post.

I too was a fan of smartmoney.com until they decided to do some site updates. To my amazement, the tool I most used the service for was first buried in the site and then completely removed. This tool is the real-time stock watch list. I used it to tell me when a stock was getting to a buy or sell price (you pay $108/yr for real-time quotes).

After several emails to technical support and no change to the issue I wrote customer service to cancel my account and refund the balance. They informed me that I was not due a refund as per their contract. I reminded them that they promised to deliver a working web site.

I am still waiting for their answer.

I don't believe their web developers understand what the site is supposed to do.

As for the rest of the site...

Using the stock charts is awkard. First you click on a chart to make it accessable. Then you select the time period and the chart redraws. There is an intraday chart that is useful for watching how a stock is trading. However, when you refresh the chart it goes to default time period (not intraday) so you have to select the intraday time period again. The way I would like to see this tool work is to have the chart update automatically on each new trade.

The site has a nice graphical display of insider trading. They use colored circles on a timeline to record purchases and sales. The size of the circles represent the value of the transaction.

The site has a 'map of the market' graphical representation where you can quickly see what segments are trading up or down. However, I found that I this tool was not useful to me.

Meantime, I found a much better site for real time stock tracking at a cheaper price. Check out advfn.com. They actually understand what an investor is looking for.