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Re: Ask HN: Review QuoteSentinel, personalized stock price notifications

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Post by ezl »

uptown wrote: post #9
ezl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question brosephius. I was not/am not aware that yahoo finance and other brokerages do it for free. Didn't find it immediately with a quick Google search either, so I'd appreciate the link (though I found another site that is new to me and seems to provide similar service) At the time I wrote it, I couldn't find other instances of this service online. I could constantly poll stock prices on my phone to see if my…

You can setup Yahoo stock alerts from here: http://alerts.yahoo.com/st_watch_editalert.php But anyone that's going to take action on these types of alerts likely already has a brokerage account with more-advanced alerting capabilities.

whoa, +1 uptown. i'm sort of bummed that I didn't know about that before. Seems like I should have found that.

1. Have you used this (and did it work)? I just tried registering an alert and I never got the notification from yahoo, despite the fact that the alert condition was met. I was also able to set an alert to get notified when SPY fell to $500 (currently trading 108.70). I also got a 404 in the 3rd step of the phone registration process, but it somehow saved the number anyways.

2. I got a 404 in step 3 when i registered my cell phone to receive alerts.

I guess I'm trying to figure out if this service is still operated at all by yahoo. Of course, it could be equally damning if yahoo decided that its not worth supporting and just nexted the product.

Regarding brokerages offering alert capabilities: I'd be interested in finding out more. I use Interactive Brokers personally and Quote Sentinel was originally actually a python script hooked up to the IB api.

Obviously trying to monetize a service that is being offered for free by many more established parties isn't the smartest idea... Can't really make excuses for why I didn't find that earlier though (functional or not).

Re: Ask HN: Review QuoteSentinel, personalized stock price notifications

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Post by uptown »

ezl wrote: post #11
uptown wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can setup Yahoo stock alerts from here: http://alerts.yahoo.com/st_watch_editalert.php But anyone that's going to take action on these types of alerts likely already has a brokerage account with more-advanced alerting capabilities.

whoa, +1 uptown. i'm sort of bummed that I didn't know about that before. Seems like I should have found that. 1. Have you used this (and did it work)? I just tried registering an alert and I never got the notification from yahoo, despite the fact that the alert condition was met. I was also able to set an alert to get notified when SPY fell to $500 (currently trading 108.70). I also got a 404 in the 3rd step of the…

I have no idea whether they maintain it or not, though it's linked to from every company's summary page within Yahoo! Finance right underneath the chart. E*Trade offers a similar feature, and I do use that one.

At the very least, I guess you've found that the Yahoo! product isn't the best ... so perhaps there's a market for your product. Something else you may be interested in is the Google Finance spreadsheet features.

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

Not sure whether there's a way you could add a hook to send an alert when certain prices are met, but their in-spreadsheet stock prices are pretty slick and very easy to use. Probably not something you could resell, but for personal use, it's a good tool.

Re: Ask HN: Review QuoteSentinel, personalized stock price notifications

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Post by cake »

uptown wrote: post #9
ezl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question brosephius. I was not/am not aware that yahoo finance and other brokerages do it for free. Didn't find it immediately with a quick Google search either, so I'd appreciate the link (though I found another site that is new to me and seems to provide similar service) At the time I wrote it, I couldn't find other instances of this service online. I could constantly poll stock prices on my phone to see if my…

You can setup Yahoo stock alerts from here: http://alerts.yahoo.com/st_watch_editalert.php But anyone that's going to take action on these types of alerts likely already has a brokerage account with more-advanced alerting capabilities.

Yahoo stock alert only works on U.S., Canadian, and Australian markets.

Yours seems to work on european markets.

Re: Ask HN: Review QuoteSentinel, personalized stock price notifications

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Post by joshu »

ezl wrote: post #4
bgimpert wrote: post #3

Umm, stop orders?

I think you're hinting that the existence of stop orders make this unnecessary. For some people that may be true. Quote Sentinel only notifies you -- at the time the first Quote Sentinel script was written, I couldn't find something that would send me a text message when my limit was about to be triggered. Basically I personally had 2 main use cases: 1. I want to go to lunch and I want to be notified if something is…

One thing I've always wanted is a view of the world that's beta-adjusted.

"Stock is up 7%, but down 1% if you factor in correlation to SPX"

Re: Ask HN: Review QuoteSentinel, personalized stock price notifications

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Post by dirtae »

As others have mentioned, you can already do this on Yahoo Finance for free. Notifo also allows you to set up free stock price alerts: http://notifo.com/user/stockalerts

It's certainly possible for you to do a better job than those services, but if you want me to pay, your site needs to explain exactly why you're better than them.

Re: Ask HN: Review QuoteSentinel, personalized stock price notifications

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Post by ezl »

dirtae wrote: post #17

As others have mentioned, you can already do this on Yahoo Finance for free. Notifo also allows you to set up free stock price alerts: http://notifo.com/user/stockalerts It's certainly possible for you to do a better job than those services, but if you want me to pay, your site needs to explain exactly why you're better than them.

Thanks Dirtae.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that it only serves iphone users (blackberry/android pending).

I suspect that iPhone (and generally smart phone) users will be less likely customers though, because its generally easier for them to check prices from their phone than for mobile users like me (no smart phone).

I certainly can't expect to be able to serve everyone who wants stock information. But I was right in my target market, so I'm crossing my fingers that there are others as well.

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