News icon should only highlight current day's news

[Guest HighlyGeared]

Hi,

 

I posted some feedback and had it suggested that it might be worth adding it here as well.  If anyone else thinks this is a good idea then please shout and perhaps it will be implemented.

 

My proposal is that the news icon in a Watchlist should only be highlighted if there has been a news item published on that day.  I don't feel there's any point to this feature if it is highlighted for previous days news that you've already read.  I constantly need to open up the news feed to check if there is anything new that I might have missed which is a royal PITA.

 

Ideally, once you have read all current news for a stock, the icon should not be highlighted.   Or perhaps you can click a button to say you've caught up.  A second best solution would be that it is only highlighted on the day if there is news.

 

Cheers.

[Guest Stef]

Agreed!

[Guest TimP]

Hi 

 

Welcome to the IG community! The point you have made I can really see the value in. We do offer the signal centre on the platform that has the icon highlighted when there is a new signal and so having fresh news highlighted I could see as a possibility and for that I would love to the share your idea with the team.

 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and if you have any other thoughts then do please share them!

[Guest HighlyGeared]

Thanks Tim,

 

logging on today I'm seeing a lot fewer news icons.  Has this been implemented already?

 

Thanks.

[Guest TimP]

Hi 

 

We have implemented a number of updates recently and so you should notice some improvements on the platform.

 

Thanks

[Guest HighlyGeared]

This is looking better but I'm still seeing some strange behaviour.  For example, today, my watchlist showed 2 stocks with news items this morning.  Then just now I notice that Just Eat PLC has a news icon flash up and I checked the news flow.  The last item is dated 30-11-2016 16:35, so hardly current.

 

Cheers.

[Guest HighlyGeared]

Tim, this is totally buggered at the moment.  Yesterday and today I'm not seeing any news icons on my watchlist but am seeing them on my open positions.