Fidelity Market Monitor for the iPhone

One thing I love about Yahoo's stock application is that it has a symbol for the 10-year treasury bond, which is huge in my industry, mortgages. Try searching for ^TNX on this thing and it just scratches its head, confused.

The interface looks pretty spiffy, though.

Tried it out and didn't really see any value over the native Stocks widget..at least for me.

I'm not quite a daytrader, but I do trade intraday and watch the market almost daily. On the iPhone, it's just a pain in the butt. EDGE is slow, and even mobile versions of broker sites are kinky on the iPhone's interface. With the lack of java apps and flash support, getting real time or streaming quotes just isn't going to happen on the iPhone.

The problem for an "active" trader with both the iPhone's built-in widget, or any other publicly accessible site is that the quotes are 20 minutes delayed, which is an eternity behind the times in a volatile market. Look at the intra-day charts of AAPL the last week and look how hard it falls the last twenty minutes most days. Someone relying on these widgets wouldn't know the carnage was there until the market had closed.

For the serious investor/trader, the stock widgets are just a toy, and for those like you Scott (don't understand or follow the market), an interesting oddity at best, and probably a waste of a widget place holder on the iPhone's home screen.

One killer app for me on the iPhone would be a site that offers real time quotes over EDGE that the iPhone can read. Anyone's broker do that yet?

Google's tried in the past to argue with the Stock Exchanges that they should be able to offer them up on Google finance, but as they're a premium product/service, that's not likely to happen any time soon.

Iphone is a great product. But, it needs 203 years more to be more "mature" imo.
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Nice work, loaded pretty quickly on my iPhone over edge, better on wifi. I've been a user of their os x widget for a while, nice to see this ported to iPhone. Pretty neat how they integrated the phone numbers in there. I only wish I could login to my account and see my own watchlist, balances, etc.

Yeah - great link. I (mistakenly) entered the URL without the index.php file, says site is broken (side note - is this really so hard to correct, web people? No, it's not).

After I re-entered the URL as you gave it, the screen went black, put some type of progress bar up that never got past about 75%.

Thanks for killing 5 minutes of my day. (Wouldn't this article almost be considered advertising, anyway?) Sheesh......

It could also be noted that they have a pretty good Desktop Widget: http://personal.fidelity.com/misc/buffers/labs/index.shtml

Just tried on my iPhone, site appears to be down.

I don't get it why would developers put messages like "The Fidelity Market Monitor iPhone Application will only work on an Apple iPhone/iPod Touch" if at the end both Macs and iPhone/iPod Touch use WebKit browser?? Talk about web separation...