New Feature: Hover Charts for Even Quicker Stock

New Feature: Hover Charts for Even Quicker Stock Screen Analysis

Update: Now there's an even faster way to view the charts.

I've just implemented a feature I've wanted since I launched the site. You can now hover your cursor (mouse pointer) over a stock ticker to get a pop up of the chart. (Similar to how FinViz.com pop-up charts work.) Here's an example:

For now this works on all of the stock scan result pages as well as your portfolio and watchlist pages (and one of my favorite pages, the list of recent IPOs). My primary goal with this site is to make my nightly analysis process more efficient and this has already boosted my productivity a lot.

For those of you on mobile devices, these "hover charts" will work for you too -- or at least they work on iOS, I haven't tried them on and Android devices yet. All you need to to is quickly tap the ticker and you should get a pop-up chart. In fact, the screenshot above is from my iPad. If you want to go to the stock's page you just have to tap the ticker symbol again and the link will take you to the stock's page where you can see the interactive chart and all the alerts & analysis that SwingTradeBot has generated.

I still have a bit of tweaking to do to those charts. They'll likely stay pretty bare-bones. The idea is to get a quick glance of the recent price action in order to decide if you want to take a deeper look at that stock. I'll definitely be adding volume and a moving average -- probably a 20 or 50-day MA. And if the server can take the extra load from all these charts being displayed I may add these hover charts everywhere that you see a ticker that's a link.

SwingTradeBot almost 10 years ago

This comment was originally posted by an Anonymous user on 2015-02-20 02:40:10.

Great new feature, nice job.

SwingTradeBot almost 10 years ago

This comment was originally posted by TraderMike (@mseneadza) on 2015-02-20 02:45:52.

Thanks Dave.

SwingTradeBot almost 10 years ago

This comment was originally posted by an Anonymous user on 2015-02-20 10:41:23.

This site's text hurts my eyes. You have light-gray text on a white background and light-green hyperlinks on lighter-gray backgrounds. There is very little contrast to these colors and makes it much harder to read.

Worse yet, when I highlight the text, I am again greeted with white text on a light purple background. The torture to the eyes never end!

Also note that the text on the DISQUS comment box are dark-gray on white, and when highlighted are white on medium-blue, which provides a much greater contrast than the rest of your site's text.

Please consider making your default text and link colors darker so it's easier to read. This is a great site but otherwise unreadable. Thanks.

SwingTradeBot almost 10 years ago

This comment was originally posted by OptionSamurai (@optionsamurai) on 2015-02-20 16:15:22.

Great feature! works on Android too. :-)

SwingTradeBot almost 10 years ago

This comment was originally posted by TraderMike (@mseneadza) on 2015-02-21 05:41:06.

Hi James,

I just made the text darker. I'd never noticed that the highlighting was purple. I'll see if I can address your other points in the next coming days. I'm not a designer by any stretch of the imagination and just went with whatever was in the theme that I'm using. Hopefully the darker text will eliminate the need to select / highlight the text.