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Online Stock Trading Software: 5 Trading Tools You Can't Afford To be Without

The advent of online stock trading software in the late 1990's - early 2000's precipitated a surge in stock trading the likes of which had never been seen before. Suddenly, trading in stocks became accessible and profitable to almost anyone who tried it. The days of manually creating charts with ruler and pencil had gone forever; replaced by online technical charting services and analytical tools. Live stock quotes, once upon a time 'only available for a huge monthly fee to the wealthy few' had become a free inclusion on the home pages of countless online stock ... read more

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The advent of online stock 
trading software in the late 1990's - early 2000's precipitated a surge in stock 
trading the likes of which had never been seen before. Suddenly, trading in 
stocks became accessible and profitable to almost anyone who tried 
it.
The days of manually 
creating charts with ruler and pencil had gone forever; replaced by online 
technical charting services and analytical tools. 
Live stock quotes, once upon 
a time 'only available for a huge monthly fee to the wealthy few' had become a 
free inclusion on the home pages of countless online stock trading web sites. 

The technological 
innovations within the trading sector rapidly advanced to the point where today, 
online stock trading software is not only easily affordable even for the 
budget-minded trader... but is also equally easy to use.
There's a vast number of 
specialist trading software programs on the market, catering for every possible 
level of experience. Obviously, I can't cover them all here. However, the 
following five trading tools from Ashkon Software are classic examples of what 
to look for in online stock trading software and should all be given serious 
consideration for inclusion in your trading arsenal.
Number 
1 Stock 
Predictor 
Is an advanced stock 
charting and investment strategy performance analysis software package for 
technical traders. It allows you to easily display several technical indicators 
for a single stock on the same chart, maintain predefined lists of stocks and 
test your own investment strategies. Stock Predictor has more than a dozen 
embedded technical indicators and over four hundred investment 
strategies.
Another great feature of 
Stock predictor that I particularly like is the one-click buy and sell function 
that gives you a unique opportunity to apply a trading strategy to a given stock 
and view a cumulative and summarized performance of your investment at any 
selected point in time.
Finally, I'd like to point 
out that Stock Predictor has a built-in data feed and no subscription fees. In 
other words, you'll never need to pay for your charts again!
Stock Predictor allows you 
to print and plot technical historical stock charts, apply and construct analog 
trading strategies, analyze the trading strategies' performances, and give 
recommendations to buy, avoid, hold or sell.
Stock Ticker 
Application Bar 
This handy little example of 
online stock trading software has been designed for continuous retrieval of 
stock quotes through the Internet. It lives at the top or bottom of your 
computer screen and displays (in real-time) ECN quotes, including pre-market and 
after hours quotes or '20 minutes delayed quotes' of predefined lists of stocks, 
indices and currency symbols as a scrolling message.

The Stock Ticker Application 
bar also displays quotes for up to 200 securities, automatically or manually 
updates stock prices, has user defined positioning, scrolling speed, fonts 
selection; includes top and bottom stock price visual and sound 
alerts.
Another really cool feature 
of this particular ticker is the stock price percentage change indicator. You 
can imagine how helpful that is when comparing a given stock's upward or 
downward movement with the overall market.
Historical Quotes 
Downloader 
Allows you to instantly 
download intraday or end-of-day historical quotes of stocks traded in the US. 
The customized ASCII data output format makes historical quotes data compatible 
with most technical analysis and charting analysis software packages such as 
SuperCharts, MetaStock, Advanced Get, Elliott Wave Analyzer, Microsoft Excel, 
Omega TradeStation and others. No subscription fees.
Stock Sector 
Monitor
Is a desktop financial 
application that allows you to easily monitor over 200 stocks and over 7000 
public companies online. You can watch daily top losing and gaining stocks from 
each stock industry sector, see percentage change, quotes, volume and other 
quotes information, access news, print reports, charts, and create and maintain 
your stock portfolios.
Ashkon Stock 
Watch 
This is serious charting 
software for the financial information market. It allows you to display on the 
same chart several technical single security indicators, open multiple chart 
documents, test your own investment strategies and maintain predefined lists of 
securities. While it's got the usual built-in market indicators such as moving 
averages, price channels, bollinger bands, volatility, stochastic oscillators 
and MACD momentum indicators, it's a really cool piece of software... especially 
the way it plots technical indicators in multiple panels (I just hate the way 
some trading software programs try to cram everything inside one small panel 
this Stock Watch tool is so refreshingly different!)
Conclusion:
For those of you who are 
wondering why I chose to review five online stock trading software programs all 
from the one source, take note: there are over 32,000 web sites in Google alone 
that focus exclusively on online stock trading software programs. Ashkon is just 
one of these. However, having personally experienced the quality of Ashkon's 
products, I have no hesitation in recommending them. Ultimately though, the onus 
is on you the trader to make the final choice.

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