Thursday, November 19, 2009

Do You Dare To Be On The Stock Market?

By Felix B. Hardy

Free Stock tickers are all over the place! You view them in the Finance Section of every one of major broadcasting networks, running in the top or bottom of the screen. Every single on line stock trading company has one. The gain of stock tickers are that you get a fast overview of stock prices in a exceptionally intuitive manner. And you can with no trouble get your own personalized real time stock ticker.

There are loads of special kinds of stock tickers, each with their own characteristics, but they also share various features. The most widespread features are the company symbol, the value of the company's shares, and the direction in which the stock price is moving.

As mentioned, there are lots of different ticker software available for your desktop, so you too can have a tape stock ticker running on your computer. The majority of desktop stock tickers are rather diminutive programs, that does not use a lot of RAM or CPU, so you can continue your work. Frequently the stock tickers can be configured to notify you if the price of a chosen stock move outside a predefined area or the stock price changes fast. The desktop stock ticker can be downloaded from several of the online stock trading companies. Since the tickers often are very tiny applications, the download and installation is fast and easy done.

Real Time or Near Real Time?

Many free desktop stock tickers shows the stock prices in "near real-time", meaning that the prices are postponed " most often 15 to 20 minutes. If you are a customer with an online stock trading company however, you can typically get real-time prices - this is obviously a massive advantage, especially if you are a day trader, who buys and sells regularly the same shares though out the day. In this case you need to know the exact price, since you make your money on very small movements. If you are a long term investor the delayed prices are of less importance.

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