Taking the visual display of stock info into a new realm
4/11/2000
There's nothing new about the visual display of stock information.
Charts showing the rise and fall of a particular stock or group of stocks have
been around for a long time. The Web, of course, has made them more easily
available, not to mention updatable, customizable, downloadable and generally
more usable for the average investor. Smart Money's Map of the
Market, however, takes the visual display of stock information into a new realm,
providing the kind of tool usually found only in high-end systems on the desks
of traders and portfolio managers. This colorful application groups stocks
into sectors and shows, at a glance, which are doing good, bad or indifferent
over the past day or over a three-, six- or nine-month period (your
choice). A click of the mouse allows you to drill down within a sector
(seeing, for instance, in the same map-like presentation, how Software,
Hardware, Semiconductors and Internet are doing within Technology), or to pull
up information about a particular company, including news, financials, ratios,
and other information from Smart Money's general site. All of this
information is readily available elsewhere, of course, but check out the Map of
the Market, using their pre-set selection of stocks or your own portfolio, to
see how the mind can follow the eye in keeping tabs on the ups and downs of
market activity.