How To Get Online Press Releases On Your Stocks Before Other
by:
Bill Peifer
It is a fact of life that press releases influence the current cost of a stock. Folk react showing emotion
and buy stocks on nice press releases, and sell stocks on bad ones, regardless of the validity of the press release. If you can get the news first, you can be in a favorable position to take advantage and gain financially. This article describes how to obtain online stock press releases once
they are 1st announced.
One way to be the 1st to obtain online press releases on stocks would-be be to perpetually
watch one or much of the business News web pages for a press release via Business Wire. Yahoo provides a popular and reliable business news web page (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw). But manually look web pages requires your full time attention. Unless you are several rich big businessman who sits by a Palm Springs swimming pool reading the business news web pages as they update, this is probably not going to activity for you. Like most folk you probably have different things to do, such as working for a living.
A better way to accomplish the task of observance the business news web pages would-be be to have being or thing
else do it for you, and then apprise you. For instance, you can use web page look code on your computer or you can subscribe to a web page look service on the Internet.
Running code on your computer to monitor a business news web page, such as Yahoo's, is easy to do and gives you complete control over once
and what you want to watch for. It can as well give you quicker
notification on press release discoveries. There are many a programs accessible on the web to do this. Easy Web Page Watcher by Patron saint DiRienzo (http://www.patdirienzo.com) is an easy-to-use low cost program ($15) that makes a really nice job of observance Yahoo and different business news web pages. To use the program just enter the business news web pages that you will to monitor and the name of your stocks. Once
the name of your stock appears on the web page in a press release, your computer once
apprise you with an loud alarm and by email. You can as well watch for keyword phrases such as "contract awarded" or "stock buyback" that would-be appear in any stock press release. If you have full time broadband Cyberspace access such as cable or DSL you can leave the program running all day and night. The program runs in the background with no disturbance to your different computer tasks. You can set up the program to send you email alerts at activity or anyplace
else.
If you do not have full time Cyberspace access, but have email, the next better know-how
of obtaining press releases mechanically
is to subscribe to a web page look service. Once much there are many a services that do this. WatchThatPage (http://www.watchthatpage.com) is a free web page look service that will alert you by email once
keywords you specify such as the names of your stocks appear in press releases on business news pages you specify. The disadvantage is that you do not obtain an instant loud alarm once
the press release is 1st detected
on the business news web page. You have to wait for the service to send you email before you hear just about the press release.
About The Author
Bill Peifer holds a degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering and has written several computer technology related articles.
bpeifer@numericnetwork.com
