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Stock Observer v1.2
Stock Observer gets the *current stock value for your given stock symbol and displays this information within your system tray, with a smile or frown. When your stock price is up, Stock Observer smiles; when your stock price is down, Stock Observer frowns. To get the actual stock price, hover your mouse cursor over the smile/frown icon and the tool tip has that stock price.

 


Feature Highlights 
  • Automatically updates every 5 minutes with the *current stock value
  • On-demand updates
  • Daily logging of the closing stock value to a log file
  • Enable Automatic start
  • Double Click Details of the *current stock value

Features

 

Daily Logging

The log file is just a comma seperated, plain text file.  It exists in the StockObserver sub folder, within "My Documents" (example: C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\Stock Observer\StockObserver.log).  To view the log file, right click on the Stock Observer icon in your system tray, and choose "View Log File...", which will launch your default text/log file viewer/reader (normally notepad.exe).  Also, since the StockObserver.log file exists in plain text, you can directly open it in what ever text viewer/reader you like.  By default, logging is disabled.  To enable/disable, right click on the Stock Observer system tray icon, right click and choose "Settings...".  Within the Settings dialog, check/uncheck the "Enable Daily Logging of Closing Price." option.

 

 

Double Click Details

Double Click on the Stock Observer icon in your system tray to display a balloon tip, which contains the stock value (current price, current change, current change percent), today's high/low/open, the previous close price, and the annual range.

 

 

Enable Automatic Start

You can enable Stock Observer to automatically launch when ever you start your system.  By default, Automatic start is disabled.  To enable/disable, right click on the Stock Observer system tray icon and choose "Settings...".  Within the Settings dialog, check/uncheck the "Enable Stock Observer to automatically start when you log onto Windows." option.

 

 

Other Highlights

 

Known Issues

  • Online Help links to a non-existing site.  This is because of a recent move of ERMWare.com to a new web host and not being able to create linked to page at the same location.  Work around, just navigate to ermware.com and come to this page.

 

 

In Upcoming Releases 

  • Stock alerts - you set a price that you want to be alerted about and when your stock hits that price you are alerted.
  • Log file in other formats; XML, Excel, ...
  • Updated Icons

 

Programming/Developer Details 

Stock Observer was developed in Visual C# using Visual Studio 2008.  Stock information comes from the following Web Service - http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx

 

 

*~20 minute delay on the current stock value.  Stock Observer is intended to provide you with a general way to track your favorite stock.  When buying/selling, consult your stock broker and DO NOT rely on Stock Observer for offical trading price/value.

 

This page was last modified on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:49:08 PM