Stock News Ticker: Free Scrolling Stock News for Your Desktop

Features

Stock news at a glance

• Follow up to 50 US stocks and ETFs. For each symbol the bar shows the ticker, the company name and its newest headlines.
• 1 to 10 headlines per symbol, sorted newest first, with duplicate stories removed. Stories that mention the company come first.
• News is refreshed automatically every 1 to 60 minutes (every 5 minutes by default), or instantly from the tray icon or the right-click menu.
• Optionally show the news source and the age of every article (for example “2h”).
• Headlines come from free internet news sources – no account, no subscription and no API key needed.

One click to the full story

• Click a headline to open the full article in your web browser.
• Click a stock symbol to open its quotelinks.com page with quotes, charts, financials and more.
• Hover over an item to underline it and pause the scrolling; drag the line with the mouse to scroll it by hand.
• Right-click for a quick menu: open the story or quote page, pause or change direction, update news, settings and exit.

Easy symbol entry

• Autocomplete: type a ticker or a company name and a list of matching companies drops down at once; press Enter to add the selected one.
• The built-in directory covers more than 13,000 US-listed symbols (NASDAQ, NYSE and other US exchanges) and is updated automatically every 3 days.
• Paste a whole list such as AAPL, NVDA, MSFT; class shares like BRK-B are recognized.
• Reorder symbols with Move Up, Move Down, Top and Bottom, or remove them with one click.

Make it your own

• 8 color schemes: Quotelinks Blue, Classic Dark, Light, Wall Street Green, Amber Terminal, Midnight, Graphite and High Contrast – or set 8 colors of your own.
• Any font, adjustable scrolling speed and direction (right to left or left to right).
• Show or hide the company name, the news source, the article age, the logo, the player controls and the separators for a minimal look.
• Player-style controls on the bar: scroll back, pause, scroll forward (fast while held), settings and exit.

Small and fast

• Native Windows program: no .NET Framework or other runtimes, very little memory and CPU.
• Smooth, flicker-free scrolling synchronized with the display.
• Start with Windows option, and a system tray icon that shows the number of headlines and the time of the last update, and hides or shows the bar.
• Freeware: no ads, no registration, no account required.

Stock News Ticker sits quietly at the top of the screen like the Windows taskbar sits at the bottom: maximized windows simply end below it. Add the companies in your portfolio or on your watch list, and the moment a story breaks about one of them it scrolls past – without opening a browser or a trading platform.

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