any programs to check share prices?

edmundli

any1 know of any programs that can check prices of specified shares, instead of a website where i can have to check every1 individually....
cheers
ed

cloud_dog

Not sure you've missed something on the website front.

You can set up a portfolio of shares on a number of sites. I tend to use III (https://www.iii.co.uk) as the chat forums are quote good. In addition you can set up a number of different portfolio's, i.e. "My Investments", "Watch List", etc, etc. Note these don't just have to be shares they can be Unit Trusts, Investment Trusts, etc, etc.

The alternative is to run your portfolio (or list of shares) within a financial package such as MS Money or Quicken. Not investigated if there are any free options around. If you just want to monitor prices, etc then set up one (or more) protfolio's on one of the web sites.

cloud_dog

Btw I dont enter total investment values when I add a share I merely enter one share at the buy price, it them calculates profit / loss against the share price.

wealthsaver

edmundli wrote:

any1 know of any programs that can check prices of specified shares, instead of a website where i can have to check every1 individually....
cheers
ed

If you have some American Stocks and shares....
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/ticker.asp
You can customise which shares are displayed. If wish LSE would do something similar.

I use http://uk.finance.yahoo.com
If you get quotes for the shares you are interested in following, cookies 'remember' which shares you have looked at (My Recent Quotes) which is displayed in the right hand side of the page near the bottom.
You can save them to a portfolio if you like which will preserve the list if you ever clear out your cookies, though I think you need to have a Yahoo login to do that.

Reaper

Another web site which lets you track your shares:
http://www.moneyextra.com/stocks/ and click on "Portfolio" (you need to register but it's free).

Once set up you can see all the prices at the click of a button and click on them to be taken to graphs where you can compare the performance to other stocks, funds, or indicies.

BrightonLad

i use moneyextra too to track my portfolio, (becuase its compatible with Egg money manager whereas my actual holding account is not) but you can create a virtual portfolio on a lot of investment sites.

i use Microsoft Money to track all my accounts etc, and this does it too (uses info from MSN i think)