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Home Page Gets a Boost

Your account home page will soon have some exciting new functionality! This is more than a facelift – you’ll see a revised layout, cleaner look and some fun new features. For a sneak peek at the new home page, visit the Knowledge Center.

I went into our test environment and played with the new home page a little, and here are the features I liked best:

  • Drop-down filters. These are very cool. Where your Open Orders and Completed Orders are listed, you can slice and dice your orders any way you want. Sort your orders by quantity, symbol, order type, price – anything you want, all in a quick drop-down menu. I’m a word nerd, so mine are arranged alphabetically

  • In-page scrolling. My favorite new feature! Some of the little modules on the page (Positions, Open Orders, Completed Orders) have a great in-page scrolling feature so you can scroll down your list of positions, for example, without ever leaving your home page. This makes it easy to access a lot of information without navigating all over the site.

  • Toggle between Positions & Watch Lists. This really helped me keep my lists straight. There’s a nice big module where you can choose whether to view Positions, pick a Watch List, or move between both with a simple drop-down menu. I was able to review my positions and check on a few stocks I’ve been watching, all while keeping my eye on the other home page features, like my alerts.

  • More data! Who doesn’t love more data? The Positions and Watch Lists area now shows more data, including dollar change, percent change and today’s change. Plus, as you probably can guess from my other favorite features, all of the new functionality works together to help you see as much account data as possible in an organized, digestible and easy-to-read format.

The new home page should appear over the weekend, so you’ll get a chance to check it out for yourself and see how all these new features work. Once you do, let us know what you think! We love to hear your feedback so we can learn how to serve you better.


Posted by Education Editor on Jan 22, 2010 9:04 AM CST

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