Reviewer, 2009-01-21 08:52:00

With Personal Stock Streamer, the active investor can track stocks in real-time; get live technical intraday and historical charts; execute trades; calculate gains; collaborate with groups; all free w/ supported brokerage accounts.

Pros: Personal Stock Streamer does stock price streaming so that real time monitoring of the prices can be done easily. You are able to track many tickers to monitor hundreds of stock prices. The application also provides a platform for trading. You can trade in US exchanges such as NYSE, AMEX, & NASDAQ. You can work with multiple portfolios and multiple accounts with these trading exchanges. To trade effectively you will need to look at technical analysis stuff and this application can provide you with candle, line and OHLC types and technical analysis indicators including SMA, MACD, RSI, Money Flow, Bollinger Bands, Momentum, and many others. Interface with Quicken, Money, Metastock and Excel for further processing. Quick access to online research through EDGAR or Yahoo! Finance is available. You could also develop custom indicators if you like, via the API provided with VBScript and Jscript. You are also able to see intraday or historical charts of price movements. Historical data of daily, weekly and monthly changes can be viewed similarly intraday views can be 1/2/3/4/5/10/15/30 and 60 minutes intervals. Mark up such charts and collaborate with others. Transactions can be in buy, sell, dividend, dividend reinvest, share transfers, return of capital, sell short, buy to cover and so on.

The view can be customized with any of several dozen data fields. These can be symbol, price, change, high, low, volume, spread, bid, ask, 52 week high and low, P/E ratio, EPS, dividend, yield, beta, market cap, gain etc. You are able to asses the value of your portfolios in real time as quotes are received. Check of realized and unrealized capital gains.

Cons: Nothing in particular noticed.

Overall: This is a very good 3 star item.