Conference Categories | Apps Conference | Stock Tickers Topics Personal Stock Monitor 32-bit -- Personal Stock Monitor is designed to make simple the routine and often quite time- Consuming chore of tracking stocks. It offers several features lacking in the competition, but at the same time it lacks many that are standard fare in other ticker clients. Personal Stock Monitor features include the ability to choose from among five different free stock servers (PC Quote, Security APL, CNN Financial Network, StockCenter, and real-time quotes with PC Quote's MarketSmart), configurable update intervals, multiple concurrent connections, proxy support, price alerts, stock printing capabilities, and more. Information offered for each stock includes daily and yearly high/low prices, current price, daily percentage change, volume traded, and the time the stock was last updated. Like all other stock ticker clients on the 'net, the stock information posted by Personal Stock Monitor is always delayed by at least fifteen minutes. Features missing relative to the competition include ticker searching (or searching of any form), mutual fund monitoring, ticker scrolling, integration with the Windows 95 task bar, portfolio management capabilities, bond and international investments tracking, and more. Personal Stock Monitor is also only available as a 32-bit client, but it will run on Windows 3.x platforms with the latest version of Win32s. Overall, Personal Stock Monitor offers quite a selection of features for only $25, but the competition offers even more and often does so at a cheaper price. Pros: Easy and efficient app for delivering free stock quotes straight to your desktop Cons: Stocks are always delayed by at least fifteen minutes, lacks many features found in the competition New: Real-time quotes through PC Quote MarketSmart, historical data export, proxy support, more Version Reviewed: 1.1 Date of Review: 5/10/96 Reviewer: Forrest Stroud Location: http://www.clark.net/pub/aivasyuk/psm/psm122.zip Author: aivasyuk@clark.net Information: http://www.clark.net/pub/aivasyuk/psm/ apps conference Main Menu