Stock Spy

Stock Spy is a convenient tool for investors and people interested in analyzing market trends and each asset's performance over time. Besides these, the program offers real-time customizable newsfeeds that add to its overall value and represent a distinctive advantage.

Stock Spy enables a general overview of the market trends and allows viewing historical data ranging between 1 month and 5 years. A minus is the incapacity to provide daily and weekly trends overview, which offer the possibility to perform microanalysis.

However, a great plus is the volume indicator. Usually, volume oscillators are a powerful feature. Based on these indices, investors can scan the market movement and determine, based on the Positive or Negative Volume Index, what the crowd's choices are. These indices allow identifying the volume in the market, and can further unveil upcoming bull and/or bear markets.

One of the nicest and most helpful features of Stock Spy is its ability to provide users with an in-build RSS feed that allows selecting your news sources. One can choose from the predefined options (Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, Seeking Alpha, Market Watch, Street Insider, Forbes, etc), or can easily add new sources and set custom options for filtering the incoming information.

Stock Spy is a program for intermediate users. Of course, it can beneficial for both stock market novices and super-advanced individuals as well; however, it mainly addresses the in-between, beginner-pro, analyst. Why is that?

Because the tool has enough data to offer detailed insights but displays relatively poor diversification in terms of chart views — for example, it lacks important indicators like EMA (Exponential Moving Average), Historical Volatility, Linear Reg Forecast (linear regression statistics), and others.

On the contrary, as a beginner, one might feel like some indicators a little extra or offer too many variables that seem overwhelming. Indeed, in most cases, it is the user's responsability to adapt their knowledge to the imposed requirements, so this particular aspect should not be treated as the app's fault.

As a result and considering the factors previously mentioned, Stock Spy should be addressed (mainly) to intermediate users, and exceptionally, to advanced individuals who only need market highlights and macros.