Free Stock Market Software

If you ever have a look through your junk email folder you might just find a few surprises. If you're like me and follow all the latest stock market blogs then no doubt you've had all the emails offering you latest affiliate products that are going to make you rich over night. Yeah right! If someone had software like that would they really be selling it on to you for $50. I know I wouldn't. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that if you get an offer in your mail box like this that sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Don't get caught up in the convincing sales pitch or watch the testimonial videos on You Tube. They are just after your hard earned cash.

The best stock market software is actually available for free online. Google Finance will provide everything you need and you'll also get access to Gmail which in my opinion is the best web mail on offer too. So ignore those affiliate products the gurus are trying to sell you and sign up for a Google Finance account right now. It's worth it purely for the up to minute stock information you'll get from Google News.

There are so many amazing features in Google Finance that I thought I would begin with the fantastic stock screener. Not only can you use it to check up on how your current stocks are performing against competitors but you can use it as a research tool. If you have an idea in mind of certain criteria to find in a particular company such as price to earnings ration or dividend yield then you can enter this in as filters. The screener will almost immediately return the results showing all the companies that meet your criteria. From there you can give you broker a call and purchase the stocks. Of course, if you have Gmail and use the call feature to call the broker. Perhaps we're putting too much faith in Google here? You can also keep track of your portfolio at the click of a button. If you're at the stage where you're still looking at stocks for beginners books then this is an absolutely necessity for you.

So in conclusion, sign up for Google Finance and forget what the gurus are trying to sell you. All the features you could ever wish for in stock market software are available for free. Learning how to use investment advisor software is worth the time and effort as it can save you from a lot of frustration further down the road. Don't forget you will also get access to Gmail and Google Buzz too which is Google's version of twitter. I had used Google Wave too for chatting to my stock market buddies but now I do all this from the Gmail window.