Use Google Alerts to monitor your Stocks & Shares
Regular monitoring the shares you own is as important as buying good
shares. You should always stay updated about the development in the company
whose shares you have in your portfolio. The traditional sources of information
are business news channels, newspapers
and stock broker website. Accurate and
timely information about your stocks & shares can save you from heavy
losses. The news about popular stocks is easily available. But news about the
less popular stocks is not easily available. Google Alerts can help you in
monitoring such stocks.
What is Google Alerts?
Google Alerts is a
content change detection and notification service
offered by Google. Google
Alerts sends emails to you when it finds anything new such as blog posts, web
pages, news, articles, or any research, that match your search term. You will get
emails when new results for your topic show up in Google Search. Google Alerts
service is very useful for many reasons, such as monitoring the web for
specific information about your shares and company, your online content, your
competition or current trends. You must be thinking how Google Alerts is helpful
in monitoring your stocks & shares. In this post, I’m going to explain how to
use Google Alerts to monitor
your Stocks & Shares.
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Advantages of using Google Alerts
Following are the advantages of using Google Alerts
1. Google Alerts is a free service.
2. You can create, edit or delete Google Alerts as per
your requirement.
3. You will get emails from Google Alerts when
new results for your stocks & shares show up in Google Search. It will save
your time as there is no need to search news related to your stocks & shares.
4. You can read all news
about your stocks & shares in your email anytime when you are free.
5. You can search particular news about your
stocks & shares from your emails archive after few days.
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How to use Google Alerts to monitor your Stocks & Shares?
Follow the step by step process to setup Google alerts
for your stocks & shares as given below
2. Log in using your Google Id
and password. If you don’t have one, then you need to create your Google
account for using this service.
3. In the box at the top, enter
the name of your stock for which you want to create an alert.
4. To change your settings, click on the “Show options”.
5. Select an option for “How often” you want to get alerts.
Options are “As it happens”, “At most once a day” and “At most once a week”.
6. Next select source as “Automatic” or select multiple
sources like blog, news, web, finance, video, books, discussions etc as per
your requirement.
7. Next, select your
“Language” and “Region”.
8. Here select an option for “How many” results you
want to see. You can select either “Only the best results” or “All results”.
9. Select your email Id or RSS feed where you want Google
Alerts for your stock to be delivered.
10. Click on “Create Alert” button.
11. Now you will get emails from Google Alerts whenever
Google find matching results for your stock.
12. Repeat the above-mentioned process for all the stocks &
shares you want to monitor.
How to edit Google Alerts?
Follow the below steps to
edit your Google alerts
2. Next, to an alert, click “Edit”.
3. If you don’t see any
options, click “Show options”.
4. Make the desired changes.
5. Click “Update Alert”.
6. To change how you get
alerts, click “Settings” and check the options you want and click “Save”.
How to delete a Google Alert?
2. Click “Delete” next to
the alert you want to delete.
3. You can also delete an
alert by clicking Unsubscribe at the bottom of an alert email.
Hope now you will get
required news about your stocks & shares in your mailbox using Google Alerts.
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