Monday, July 25, 2005 - Checking a stock on the market!

    You just were told that one of the housing stocks, TOL, has been doing well lately. You already own a home building stock (DHI), and it has been doing well in the last three months.
    You also know that the oil stocks, like SUN; Harrar's grambling stock, HET, and Boeing, BA, are also doing well.

    You have learned to use Yahoo Finance's stock addressing schema. So you type the following in your browser's address window:

  • "http://finance.yahoo.com" to get to the Yahoo Finance Service page,
  • then add "/q/bc" to get to the "qoutes" and "basic chart". Then
  • your enter "?s=TOL" to indicate the stock of interest. Then you enter
  • "&t=3m" for an interval for the last 3 months (or &t=1y for a year).
  • Next comes "?c=dhi,sun,het,ba" so you can compare these stock.

        Thus, your entry looks like this:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=TOL&t=3m?c=dhi,sun,het,ba

        Well, did it work?  This sure beats having to find the favorite/bookmark for Yahoo Finance, and going through Yahoo's data entries.

     Today, July 22, it looked like this!

        What does it look like now?