Stock market tracking applications for smartphones

There are a lot of smartphone applications (IPhone and Android) to follow the stock market. It is often difficult to make a choice. The first question you have to ask yourself is: How do you intend to use your smartphone application on the stock market? Do you want to follow prices in real time, monitor your portfolio’s movements, place stock market orders, or be informed of all the latest stock market news, etc.? The choice of a stock market tracking application for your smartphone must, above all, be made depending on your needs. You can then orient your choice according to the different functionalities offered by the application and its interface.

The various categories of stock market tracking applications for smartphones

Your broker's smartphone applications

: Almost all stock market brokers have a smartphone application that generally works on IPhone and Android. These applications are a way to offer their customers access to the simplest trading platform features. You can therefore place orders, monitor charts over several time units, monitor your portfolio’s changes and of course you can consult prices of the products offered by the broker. This type of smartphone application is generally quite well designed and aims to facilitate access to financial markets for individuals and to adapt it to their needs. The quality of the application can be very variable according to the brokers but we find the same types of features.

Examples: Your broker.

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Information applications for smartphones

: The largest sites or newspapers specialized in stock exchange trading have their own applications. Their objective is to offer the content of their articles on an IPhone or Android. The interface is simple and functional. The most advanced applications offer to create alerts for different events (news that falls on a value, price level reached, etc.). These are general applications that suit the greatest number of people. Most of them also offer to display stock market charts over several time units, to consult the daily ranking, to create personalized watch lists, etc.

Examples: Investir;Boursorama, Boursier; Bloomberg, Yahoo, etc.

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Community applications for smartphones

: Some applications are intended to circulate various discussions or tips published on a specialized site. As with traditional forums, the application then makes it possible to follow progression of discussions, new topics, etc. Other specialized sites focus their smartphone application on stock market advice. It is then possible to consult the analysis as soon as it is published. Therefore applications’ interface and functionalities can be very varied and are intended for followers of a site, rather than the general public.

Examples: Morningstar, tradingSat, etc.