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June 13, 2026
How to track your investments without handing over your trading platform login
Search for an app to track investments and almost every result asks for the same thing first: connect your brokerage account. You hand over a login — or a read-only token at best — and in return you get a dashboard. It is convenient. It is also a direct view of everything in your trading platform, whether you like it or not.
There is another way to do this, and it is the approach MyStonks is built around: you enter what you hold, and nothing ever connects to your broker.
Why “just link your account” is the wrong default
Account-linking aggregators are genuinely useful, but they come with trade-offs people rarely think about until later:
- Your positions become their data. Once aggregated, your holdings can be analyzed, profiled, and — depending on the fine print — sold or shared.
- Credentials are a liability. Every linked account is one more place a breach can reach your brokerage.
- You don’t control the off-switch. Deleting the app rarely deletes the history they already built.
If the goal is simply to see your portfolio clearly, none of that is a price you have to pay.
What to look for in a private investment tracker
Whether you use MyStonks or something else, the best app for tracking a share portfolio without the privacy cost tends to share a few traits:
- Pseudonymous – There is no way to associate your holdings with your identity if you don't want (use any email address you own and make up a name).
- Manual or import-based entry — you decide what it knows, no broker connection required.
- A real performance view — not just today’s price, but cost basis, gain, and history over time.
- Dividend tracking — income is half the point of holding, and most quick trackers ignore it.
- Data that stays yours — never pooled with a broker, profiled, or sold on.
How MyStonks does it
MyStonks is a private portfolio tracker. You add your holdings, and the StonkBoard turns them into a single live view — every position as a tile, refreshing on its own, with gain and day-move front and center. Behind it sits real performance history and dividend tracking, so you can see how the whole portfolio has done over time, not just its value this minute.
The part that matters for: there is no brokerage connection, anywhere. Prices come from a market-data feed; your holdings come from you. Your data stays yours.
Track your investments, privately
If you have been looking for an app to track investments that doesn’t start by asking for your broker login, that is exactly the gap MyStonks fills.