About our prices

Most prices in the portfolio tracker are end-of-day prices, usually from the previous trading day. We only show a price when the source it comes from allows us to show it to you. When we do not have such a price for a holding yet, we value that holding at the price you paid for it.

• Exchanges that publish their end-of-day data for free public use.
• Official sources such as central banks, government agencies and published fund prices.
• Licensed data providers.
• Your own statements and the prices you enter yourself. These are your own data and are shown with their date like any other price.

United States share and fund prices reflect trades on the IEX exchange only, so they may differ slightly from closing prices published elsewhere. The full list of sources, with the notices each one asks us to show, is on our Market data sources page.

A price cell carries a small coloured dot. Hover it to see when the price was last updated and which source it came from. The label next to it is the one the source itself describes, for example end of day or previous trading day.

• Green, real-time: a price with no reported delay, published as the trade happens. This is the most up-to-date figure we show.
• Amber, delayed: a price published during the trading day after a delay set by the source. Hover the dot to see its time; the market may have moved since.
• Grey, end of day: a settled closing value. Most prices, fund prices and anything you entered or imported yourself sit here.
• Red, stale: the price has not refreshed for longer than expected. Treat the figure as indicative.

Some holdings show no market price and no dot. That is expected, not an error: we have not yet got a price for that security that we are allowed to show you. The holding is valued at your purchase price until we do, and a single note under your portfolio says so.

If you see a price that you believe is incorrect, hover the dot to see its date and source, then compare it with your broker or another reputable source. If you still think it is wrong, contact us and we will look into that security.