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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
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