Articles

RSS started out as an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary, but these days those definitions are no longer adequate.  Basically, RSS is a standards-based format for distributing content such as news, blogs, articles, and even audio.

Personal Stock Streamer 7 includes a built-in RSS reader module that lets you "subscribe" to most RSS feeds available today.  The lists of headlines are updated automatically, and a little "unread articles" indicator is displayed at the bottom of the Personal Stock Streamer application window to tell you how many new articles are available.  To see the RSS reader window with your current subscriptions, select the "RSS News Headlines" command from the Tools menu.

While we have pre-populated the built-in reader with a handful of feeds that we thought you might find useful, you can add as many of your own feeds as you want.  We have created a resources page to which we have added many more recommended feeds; all you have to do to add those feeds to your active subscriptions is to drag and drop the links into the RSS reader window.

A little bonus that we have included is the ability to automatically create Yahoo Finance news feeds for most stock tickers by simply dragging and dropping the tickers from your Personal Stock Streamer window into the RSS reader window.  (Right now you can only drag and drop one ticker at a time, but we will expand this capability in the future.)  When you create a news feed for a ticker, it will only receive headlines specific to that ticker.

We welcome suggestions for improvements to the RSS reader, as well as recommendations for additional feeds for our resources page.  Please send them to us through the contact us page.