The sites mentioned here offer 15-20 minute delayed prices.
Note: most of the sites listed enable you to choose between basic and
advanced chart formats. Basic is normally pre-set, but quick and simple.
Advanced allows you more choices in terms of format, indicators, etc.
A few also offer Java charting functionality, which is even more interactive.
However, not all Java functionality is available to Mac users.
Yahoo Finance
(UK)
The home page already offers you a quick, intraday FTSE 100 chart with
the current price, net price change and percentage price change (all
delayed by 15-20 minutes). It also provides the same information (without
charts) for the the FTSE techMark, Dow Jones, S&P 500 stockmarkets
as well as the dollar and euro rates.
If you wish, click on the FTSE 100 link on the right-hand side under
"Market Summary". Here you will find the previous day's closing
price, the day's range and the 52-wee k range (i.e. high and low).
To access more sophisticated charts, click on the time frame options
under the chart. You can choose a variety of financial technical analysis
indicators, including Bollinger bands, moving averages, MACD, RSI, stochastics,
ADX (referred to as DMI), etc., and timeframes.
Still under the "detailed" view, click on "components"
to get the share prices (net change, percentage change, volume) of the
FTSE 100 companies. Click on any of the stock quote symbols on the left-hand
side to get current stock price, previous close, 52 week high and low
and a small price chart. Or, from the home page, you can also click
on the FTSE 100 link under "Investing... Today's Markets"
on the left-hand side. From here, click on links to charts to get the
chart, or news, reports, etc.
From here, or from the "detailed" view mentioned above, you
can also get stock market prices and charts for the FTSE 250 as well
as the AIM index, Dow Jones, Nasdaq, Dax 30 and Eurostoxx 50 and prices
by sector by clicking on the links just above the stock "quotes"
sections along the top.
(If you're not sure that you understand the significance of the information,
check out our courses. To do so, simply click on any of the links in
the menu on the left-hand side of this site.)
The Yahoo Finance (UK) site has several other useful free services.
Other features are described on the relevant resource page.
The Financial Times -
FT.com
The Financial Times should not require an introduction. However, many
people are not as familiar with the web site as they are with the appearance
of the famous pink-paper newspaper.
This site offers more attractive stock charts than Yahoo - and a wealth
of information on UK stock market and company news (as, indeed, does
Yahoo Finance). Registration for interactive charting is free. For quick
chart views of the FTSE 100, FTSE-All Share and techMark, click on "Markets",
then "UK equities".
On this page is a link to interactive charting. Curiously, every time
we tested this link... we were automatically presented with a chart
of ATT & T on the New York Stock Exchange! Nevertheless, you can
type in a company n ame from here. Don't forget to choose from the country
list or type in the country abbreviation followed by the stock symbol
(if you know it). You will see a 1-minute price chart (delayed by 15-20
minutes). To get a longer time frame and access the interactive charting
features with technical analysis indicators, choose from the menu under
the company chart.
We haven't yet come across any stock market index company list.
Alternatively, if the company is one of the 25 highest gainers (or
losers, or most active) on the stock market index, go to "Market
Data and Tools" and click on the link from there.
Premium information, such as the prestigious Lex column, requires a
paid subscription. If you have difficulty deciphering the mass of figures
that appear in the printed version, the FTS
Stock Market Essentials Course shows you how to speed-read and glean
the essentials of The Financial Times stock market information in under
5 minutes.
CBS.MarketWatch.com
This site is more US-oriented than FT.com. So don't exp ect the same
breadth of UK-related news. However, you can access the same UK stock
market charts from this site - with the same technical analysis indicators.
The shortcut symbol codes are the same as those used on FT.com. To access
the FTSE 100 chart, click on "International indexes". Registration
for interactive charting is free. To access UK share charts, enter the
name of the company on the search menu, or enter the company symbol
code ("ticker") if you know it.
Bloomberg.com
Unfortunately, Bloomberg.co.uk doesn't seem to
exist any more. Nonetheless, some information on the UK can be found
at the American parent site: Bloomberg.com - if you know where to look!
You won't find much UK-related financial information by clicking around
the home page.
The secret is to scroll down to the bottom and
click on the site map, or simply click on the direct link here.
From here, click on "international indexes" and choose FTSE
100 (or another index) . It will offer a simple 6-month chart. If you
click on "Chart the performance..." under the chart, you will
then find a 20-minute delayed intraday chart. You can also select a
weekly or yearly view. The are no technical indicators on offer. However,
it does provide volume bar graphs.
An interesting feature is the Market
Movers by Index (the link is just above the world indexes link).
Here, you can choose between several indices, and find a list with the
price and volume overview of the component companies. Click on the ticker
symbol of a company and it will provide a brief overview and a chart
performance comparison with its sector.
CityComment.co.uk
This site provides stock market index prices along the top. Here's
a trick: to access the stock market index charts, try to click on the
name of the index as it streams across the top of the screen.
To access FTSE 100 component company prices, pass your mouse over the
quote menu and select your choice. Also offers prices f or FTSE 250,
FTSE Small Cap, FTSE Fledgling, AIM, techMark listed companies, etc.
Important warning about stock market charts, especially on FT.com
and CBS.MarketWatch.
If you use the technical analysis indicators on FT.com and CBS.MarketWatch
- note that the colours of the signal lines and the main indicator lines
on one site are the OPPOSITE of the colour of the signal and main indicator
lines on the other site! Be warned!
We have also noticed that, for certain market indices, the longer-term
chart views may not be updated for several days. In other words, if
you choose a 3-month daily chart of the Nikkei 225, it may still show
the "latest price" of several days ago! If in doubt, check
the 1-day daily price, and compare it with the price information on
another site. We found this bizarre, as one would have thought that
the information would have been automatically updated via their database.
Always check the date and time on the chart.
This phenomenon may also occur on other sites, so beware.
We hope you find this section useful. More coming soon!
