Your list

Saved

The rows you starred, with the figures this site holds for them today — not the ones that were on screen when you saved them. The list itself lives in this browser and nowhere else.

A star is a bookmark, nothing more. Saving a row does not buy anything, does not tell us anything, and does not mean this site thinks the security is worth owning. It only means you want to find it again without searching for it.

The security tables on this site carry a star in the first column. Press it and the row joins this page; press it again and it leaves. Nothing is submitted, no page reloads, and there is nothing to sign up for.

Nothing saved yet

A star sits at the start of each row on the security tables. Look for Save and press it — the row lands here, and this page fills in what that security pays now.

Places with a lot of rows to star:

If you have starred rows before and this page is empty, it is almost always because you are in a different browser, on a different device, in a private window, or the browser has cleared its site data since. The list is deliberately local — see below.

What the star actually stores
Only the ticker is saved. Every price, yield, payment and date above is read from this site's database when the page loads, so a row starred a year ago shows what the security pays now rather than what it paid then. A security that has since stopped trading keeps its row, and its price-derived figures are left blank rather than annualised against a last trade nobody can get.

This list lives in this browser only

It is not an account. There is no sign-in, no password, no email address and no row in any database on our side. The tickers sit in this browser's local storage; the only time they leave it is when this page asks our server what those tickers pay, and that question is answered and forgotten.

It does not sync. A list built on a laptop will not appear on a phone, and a private window starts empty and forgets everything when it closes. If you clear your browsing data, the list goes with it.

That is the feature, not an apology for a missing one. A synced list would mean an account, an account would mean an email address and a password to keep, and a record of what a named person is interested in owning is exactly the kind of data a research site has no business holding. So we do not hold it. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to delete, nothing of yours for us to lose. What this site does and does not store is set out in full in the privacy policy.

Saved lists — the common questions

Where is my saved list stored?
In this browser, in local storage, under the key ii-saved. It holds the ticker, the name, the kind of security and the date you saved it — nothing else. It is not sent to us, there is no account behind it, and no row is written to any database when you press a star.
Will my list follow me to my phone?
No. Each browser keeps its own list, so a list saved on a laptop does not appear on a phone, and a private window starts empty and forgets everything when it closes. There is no sign-in that would join them, by design.
What happens if I clear my browser data?
The list goes with it. Clearing site data, cookies-and-storage, or using a browser set to clear on exit all remove it. That is the trade for a feature that asks nothing of you: nothing to sign up for, and nothing of yours held anywhere we could lose it.
Are the numbers on this page the ones from when I saved the row?
No. Only the ticker is stored. Every price, yield, payment and date on this page is read out of this site's database when the page loads, so what you see is the current stored figure rather than whatever was true on the day you pressed the star.
Why has a security I saved lost its yield?
Because it has stopped trading — redeemed, matured, delisted or acquired. Data vendors keep quoting the last trade that ever happened, and annualising a payment against that price would produce a yield nobody can get. The row stays on your list, and says so, with the price-derived figures left blank.
Is a saved list a portfolio or a watchlist recommendation?
Neither. It is a bookmark. Saving a row records only that you wanted to find it again; nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything, and no row is ranked, scored or suggested because you saved it.

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