Widget Watch: Fidelity Market Monitor

If you are like me and have a burning desire to check on your stock portfolio compulsively throughout the day, there are many options in the world of Dashboard widgets, Apple's own included stock widget amongst them. But I just downloaded the Fidelity Market Monitor - a natural since I have accounts with Fidelity - and I'm really digging it.

The widget lets you personalize your watchlists, track your stocks and stay current on the latest symbol-specific and overall market news and conditions. It loads fast and is very easy to customize. It's easy on the eyes, too. Did I mention it's free? Well it is. Bulls and bears alike should be pleased.

Update: Alternate link download link.

Thanks, Hadley!

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Source: http://personal.fidelity.com/misc/buffers/labs/index.shtml

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Joe Merchant

I love the color and sorting capabilities, but hate the 25 stock limit.... is there a similar tool (sorts quotes by % change) that does not have this limit? I watch about 100 issues with Yahoo, but it doesn't do the sorting....

November 21 2006 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Laurie

mooton - I suspect it's just a temporary issue on Fidelity's site. You don't need to be a customer to use the widget. I posted an alternate download link above, from Apple's site. http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/fidelitymarketmonitorwidget.html

November 08 2006 at 12:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mooton

Am I missing something? There is no download link for the Market Widget. Does one need to be a Fidelity customer?

November 08 2006 at 11:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hamlet

Nice Find, I have been using the one by Apple but it is great to see a better one. Off I go to get it.

November 07 2006 at 3:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sherman Homan

Ah ha! Fidelity discovers the Mac!

November 07 2006 at 6:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gandhi

This is nice. Better then the one provided by Apple, IMO.