Staying on top of your stock portfolio means knowing what the market is doing even when you’re away from your computer. Google Finance makes this easy for monitoring stocks, but for frequent traders, you’ll have to look somewhere else.
Finance is easy to read and allows you to add several stocks to your home screen, so you can monitor them as you go about your day. There’s no limit to the amount of stocks you can watch, so keeping an eye on them is relatively easy. The only downside to Finance is that it doesn’t include an option to group stocks, so if you wanted to watch all of your technology stocks at once, it’s impossible to do so.
While Finance doesn’t provide an avenue for trading stocks with the major companies like Scottrade and Fidelity, the widget feature of the app is more than enough for anyone who wants to keep an eye on their investments. The footprint of the app is relatively low for the frequency of the updates, which is what makes it an advantageous to have installed for those with limited space on their smartphones.
As with all Google apps, Finance frequently receives updates to improve the user experience. As Google works to improve how people interact with the application, stock grouping, a larger history, and other options may become available in the future. As the app stands right now on the market it’s decent for those who are new to the market and want to keep an eye on it, but for more advanced investors, apps that allow trading like those provided by Scottrade might be of more interest.
Google Finance is ad-free, which alone makes it better than many of the third party applications that are available on the market.
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