Stock Quotes - Automatic Updates and Alerts

One of the most important parts of managing a portfolio is knowing when big changes are occurring; specifically when the price for a share in your portfolio drops below a certain level, or rises above a certain level. This can also be used on watch lists to look out for a specific price being hit when buying a stock.

Stock Quotes makes this easy. For each share you are monitoring you can select a minimum and maximum price (or leave as 0 to ignore) – if the share price moves out of these bounds you will be notified. To do this, tap on the stock symbol on the main screen and tap the Alert... button on the resulting stock edit screen. Enter the minimum and maximum value you wish to monitor the share for (note that this is in the same units as the last price, usually cents/pence).

Of course this facility is only really useful if you don't have to press the button to update the stock prices all the time; so Stock Quotes contains a scheduled update. To activate this, select the Schedule... option from the Options menu on the main screen. This will display a dialog similar to that shown below; select the time range you wish the update to be active for (i.e. when the relevant stock exchange is open) and the frequency of the updates.

Important Note:

Depending upon the stock exchange, price information can be delayed by 15 minutes or more; also, while Stock Quotes does its best to read the quote information as scheduled, circumstances beyond its control may prevent it doing so (for example, loss of Internet connection). It should also be noted that frequent updating will reduce battery life.