An excellent tutorial makes setting up Personal Stock Monitor Gold almost fun. The polite installation offers to make backups of shared files and asks before it creates a desktop shortcut. The program holds your hand throughout the process of assembling a portfolio, setting stock alerts, and finding news and research. Yahoo is the default source for news and quotes, but you can choose from a list of international sources. Tabs in the main window let you examine your current holdings, active securities (current holdings plus a watchlist), transactions, news headlines on all watched stocks, and reports on current holdings. By right-clicking a stock symbol, you can update the price, view a variety of charts, set or modify alerts, and check recent SEC filings. You can show or hide a ticker bar with clickable headlines and stock symbols. Also, if you need to perform complicated analysis, you can drag stocks into your Excel spreadsheets. Personal Stock Monitor Gold would meet the needs of investors with various levels of technical and financial knowledge.
Personal Stock Monitor Gold is a live stock ticker tape, multi-currency portfolio manager and advanced research assistant for individual investors. It combines delayed and real-time quotes, charts and news from around the world with an active portfolio manager.
Version 6.0.3 build 268 adds a powerful chart plug-in and provides faster data service access.
Pros: This would meet the needs of 99% investors and brokers. Excellent Program for watching the stock market.
Excellent Program for monitoring and Analyzing your stocks.
Cons: I'm not a stock market freak but it seems to be missing some add-on services. It could use some better built-in reports as well. It is nice though that you can export data to other programs for anaylsis but would be better if it was built-in.