How to Track Stocks

Post on: 16 Март, 2015 No Comment

Set Up Your Portfolio

Even if you don’t own stock, this online portfolio can help you decide whether to invest, by tracking the prices of stocks that interest you.

On the homepage. scrawl over the My Portfolios tab and select New Portfolio from the drop-down list.
Select Track Your Current Holdings .
Name your portfolio in the Portfolio Name field.
You can call it whatever you likeLucky, Fred, whateverbut if you own shares in different kinds of stocks, you could name separate portfolios according to category.
Under Ticker Symbols. enter the one to four letter abbreviations of all the companies you wish to track.
For an explanation of ticker symbols. see How to Read the Stock Market .
Under Example Market Indices. select which indices you wish to be displayed on your account’s homepage.
Market indices offer an up-to-date measure of the performance of a certain market sector. For example, the NASDAQ Composite tracks tech companies.
For more, see the Security and Exchange Commission ‘s Market Indices page .
Select your preferences under Basic Features.
Most importantly, if you don’t want everyone who walks by to know your financial situation, check off on Don’t show portfolio total value on your My Yahoo! pages.
In Advanced Features. check off any other data you wish to track.
Shares Owned and Purchase Price/Share will allow you to watch your overall stock holdings grow and contract.
Set the Upper Limit and Lower Limit functions in order to recieve an alert every time a stock reaches a certain level, high or low.
Click Continue .