How To Install a Stock Ticker on Your Website

Introduction

Staying informed or updated with current market conditions is not an easy thing. Investment portfolios are continuously changing, by which opportunities for short term gains can be easily missed. But, if you have a website then, stock ticker is a best way to stay updated with the latest market events. Stock ticker is good for novice investors, who are looking for a method to keep up with their portfolios of investments.

Stock ticker is a way of staying updated about the stock market and new investments made in the market. It is useful since it shows the market trends for the selected stocks. It automatically monitors stock quote that provide unlimited number of symbols.

It also offers detail stock information as high, low, volume and open. This software is good in that you never have annoying features or ads. It can be resized to work on any configuration. Speed for scrolls and updates are adjustable automatically.

Financial sites, to give information about stock market uses stock ticker to have regular visitors. In this, the updated information that attracts visitors is provided. Existing online script can be used by website owners in order to add a stock ticker on a web page. Then they can keep visitors informed about changing prices and other information about stock market. Following steps can be followed to install stock ticker on a web page.

Step 1

First of all, you need to have approach of free Yahoo finance stock tools that are, stock charts and news and stock tickers with quotes. Click the start now button. Create new Yahoo account.

Step 2

Select any one from the three modules. Only choose the one that includes charts, news and stock quotes.

Step 3

Select the content. Select a color based from the color scheme which will contain stock ticker. Choose the size and space according to the design of web page. Add 10 stock symbols. Use the ‘Get quote’ button to look for the symbols for chosen companies. Write the name of the company to check the corresponding stock symbols.

Step 4

Press the ‘Get code’ button. Then copy the HTML code of module. Log in at web host panel for the web page. Press the ‘file manager’ link. Find and click twice on the web page that has information regarding stock.

Step 5

Now click the ‘edit’ button to go on HTML of web page. Paste the copied code for module in the given place. Save the changes. Open the page to make sure that stock ticker has appeared. Now create a new stock module. Modify the settings of the content, if any features or size of the module does not compete with the web page.

Tips and Comments

There are different tools and different sites which offer you a stock ticker for your websites, you can use them too. Be very careful in the step 2 and step 3 because you need to be very precise what you need and what kind of visitors you shall be providing information. Also make sure the font color and size of the text in the ticker is clearly visible. Color should not be so bright because visitors shall be looking at it for long time. Manage the ticker scroll time too; it should give time to note the ups and downs in the market.

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