sStockQuote

sStockQuote is a tiny and portable application that lets you quickly create a database of stocks to keep track of. It offers support for alerts and logs.

You can drop the program files in a custom directory on the disk and just click the executable to launch sStockQuote, or save them in a removable storage unit to directly run the app on any PC. It doesn't make changes to the Windows registry.

Represented by a large window slit into multiple parts, the interface is pretty intuitive. To get started you can create the database with new entries by specifying symbols, financial values to take into account for high and low alerts, total shared owned, along with any notes.

It's possible to add as many stocks as you want, edit their properties any time, remove any of them from the list, change their order in the database, as well as export them to CSV format to import them later or on another PC running sStockQuote.

The alert system is optional. You can enables sound notifications, balloon tips and text-to-speech, as well as check out log details concerning these alerts and clear the log anytime. For the text-to-speech feature you can select the voice and adjust the rate and volume level.

When it comes to recording stock information, the utility makes a note of the last trade, change, percent change, previous close, open, day's high and low, volume, average daily volume, dividend/share and yield, PEG ratio, and so on. More details can be looked up Yahoo! Finance.

No error dialogs were shown in our tests, and the software program didn't hang or crash. It was prompt regarding stock alerts and used low CPU and RAM, so it didn't hog system performance.

To conclude, sStockQuote offers an effective solution to helping you keep track of stocks, backed by handy options and configuration settings.