The iPhone stocks application is a simple app that displays the current stock price of a list of stocks that you provide.
The main screen shows the stock symbol, the current price, and the relative change for the day. Red is used to indicate a falling price, green to show a rising price. The chart at the bottom of the screen shows graph of the stock price for the selected stock.
Pressing the i button at the bottom right of the screen will bring up the list of stocks you are tracking so you can edit them. You can click on the button to the left of the stock to delete it from your list. You can also click on the % or Numbers buttons on the bottom to choose to display a percentage of change, rather than actual dollars per share value.
You can re-arrange the stocks by pressing and dragging the right end of the stock line up or down.
To add a stock, press on the + button at the top of the screen. You can then type the symbol of the stock or the stock name and it will look up the stock symbol for you.
February 21st, 2008 by Gary Rosenzweig
To add the Dow Jones Industrial Average, use ^DJI. The Nasdaq is ^IXIC. The Standard and Poors Index is ^GSPC.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Is it possible to change the way the name of the stock is displayed i.e. from IXIC to NASDAQ?
April 21st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Not that I know of.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I would like to add non us stocks e.g. stocks listed on londin stock exchange, but no joy. Any ideas on how this can be done?
August 19th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
peter: I just tried adding one and it worked: “RDSA.L” This is a Yahoo application, so anything you enter into Yahoo Finance should work.