If you’ve new to the stock market you might have done the sensible thing and signed up for a few stock market blogs to get their newsletter delivered directly to your inbox. Nothing wrong with that. In fact it makes perfect sense to get as much information as you possibly can especially when you’re just starting out. The problem is that there are so many so called gurus out there who’ll play on your naivety to simply try and sell you a product. They’ll market it as the next best thing. It’ll make you a millionaire in a matter of weeks! Not exactly. If they had software like this do you really think they’d be selling it? Of course now they’d be keeping it for themselves!
Forget the rubbish the gurus are trying to sell you as the best stock market software out there is actually available for free. Don’t believe me? Check out Google Finance. It has so many features its unbelievable for a free product. If you already have a Gmail account you’ll be familiar with the layout and navigation. You also get free access to the wonderful Google News.
To really get a feel for the power of Google Finance you have to try out the stock manager portfolio. If you’re like me and have a portfolio spread across various different companies it can be difficult to keep track of how they are all performing. With Google Finance, this becomes an absolute breeze. All the stocks you own can be shown on one simply screen so you have an at a glance view of your entire holdings. From there you can use the stock screener to work out what your next investment will be. Simply enter a few variables into the filters such as price to earnings ratio and watch Google Finance do it’s magic. You can then export all this information into Google Documents to share with your friends or if you’re part of an investing club. On second thoughts, perhaps you’ll want to keep this information to yourself. Stocks for beginners is difficult enough without helping the competition!
Investment advisor software comes in various different price ranges but in my experience free software can deliver exactly what you need compared to the paid software the stock market gurus are trying to sell you. Sign up for Google Finance today and you might just be amazed at what you find.
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