Any good software, websites or apps you guys. use for stock market price alerts?

[TJ82]

I want something basic which lets me set an alert price for a stock. Nothing much fancier than that. Currently I use HL's app, but it doesn't let me do much other that pick some funds to track.

You guys have any good apps, free preferably!

 

[Erehy Dobon]

The old warhorse Yahoo Finance has featured price alerts for a very long time. This is likely the oldest stock app in the iOS App Store and one of the earliest apps that is still hanging around.

Their technical indicator graphs are excellent and you are basically only limited by screen size of your iDevice. I find that 6-7 separate technical indicator graphs can fit on my iPhone XS and iPad mini (4th generation).

My brokerage firm's iOS app (Fidelity, a US broker) has price alerts too.

I believe Investing.com's iOS app has price alerts but my most important needs are covered by the two apps above.

 

[TJ82]

The old warhorse Yahoo Finance has featured price alerts for a very long time. This is likely the oldest stock app in the iOS App Store and one of the earliest apps that is still hanging around.

Their technical indicator graphs are excellent and you are basically only limited by screen size of your iDevice. I find that 6-7 separate technical indicator graphs can fit on my iPhone XS and iPad mini (4th generation).

My brokerage firm's iOS app (Fidelity, a US broker) has price alerts too.

I believe Investing.com's iOS app has price alerts but my most important needs are covered by the two apps above.

Really didn't expect Yahoo app to have that, brill thanks, downloaded it yesterday. Guess. if you have an aggressive target price on a stock it's likely too late to buy by the time an app alerts you but good for long term plays I guess.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

If the alert is intended to be a trading action threshold (especially for short-term investing), use limit orders.

And use a solid trading strategy: decide on an entry point and have an idea on an exit strategy before you buy. If you get a price alert and you start thinking "maybe I should buy/sell some?" you haven't done that. Note that deciding on an exit strategy also means thinking about what to do if you start losing money on that particular investment.

Those are decisions that you need to make on your own. No app can make those decisions for you.

The alert is just a dumb alarm on price, it doesn't matter which app gives it.

Your ability to react will largely be governed by the type of trade you want to make: short, intermediate or long. If you want to make short-term trades, you need to pay really close attention to what is happening or rely on limit orders to execute your plans for you.

 

[TJ82]

If the alert is intended to be a trading action threshold (especially for short-term investing), use limit orders.

And use a solid trading strategy: decide on an entry point and have an idea on an exit strategy before you buy. If you get a price alert and you start thinking "maybe I should buy/sell some?" you haven't done that. Note that deciding on an exit strategy also means thinking about what to do if you start losing money on that particular investment.

Those are decisions that you need to make on your own. No app can make those decisions for you.

The alert is just a dumb alarm on price, it doesn't matter which app gives it.

Your ability to react will largely be governed by the type of trade you want to make: short, intermediate or long. If you want to make short-term trades, you need to pay really close attention to what is happening or rely on limit orders to execute your plans for you.

Was initially looking to swing trade, make 2 to 3 day positions, play the dips, but thinking it's too time consuming for me to do while I'm still working. Going to inject as much cash in FTSE 100's with solid fundamentals and play a 3 to 4 month game, or longer. Prices are so cheap right now. I know they could bottom out again with more bad news, but I'm thinking UK peak is over in two weeks, and some lockdown restrictions end in another 4 to 6 weeks, so we might see some flights resuming.

My new annoyance is that all my apps and websites I use are 15 minutes behind the actual index. Worse still is that they all show different prices even at the same time. So they're not all synced by come central server I'm assuming. Any idea why that is? Is there a freebie source for real time info? It's not really super important for someone like me, but it gives me OCD a bit.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

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While I am strong believer of all three old adages, in this case I suggest you look for a UK investors Q&A forum to identify a UK-focused app that gives real-time quotes.

Typically delayed quotes are free, real-time quotes are a pay service. Indexes (FTSE 100, S&P 500, Nikkei 220, etc.) are often real-time, at least in their respective countries.

At least here in the USA, if you have a brokerage account, their quotes should be real-time provided you are logged into your account. I use my brokerage's website, their PC-based trading tool, and their iOS app. All three give real-time quotes.

Short-term trading is for people who have the time to pay very close attention to the market. It is difficult to be a successful short-term trader if you go into back-to-back one-hour meetings at work, have project deadlines, etc.

If you decide to do intermediate-term or long-term investing, real-time quotes won't be terribly important. If you are looking at charts with a 1-day period, those are closing prices. Turning off the candlesticks and switching to a line graph will take out a lot of the noise.