I'm in a similar situation...... I'm trying to find a national debt ticker that I can place somewhere on the desktop.

Something tells me I might need a huge widescreen monitor to fit the entire number though. :smileyvery-happy:

A place to start: http://widgets.yahoo.com/tags/finance

If you are running Vista you can check the widget options for the Windows Sidebar as well.

Hi MPO, many thanks - I've now got a suitable stock ticker up and running, the Paul Brill ticker.  Regarding colours, as you can't seem to change the green/red up/down figures, you need to configure the colours fairly carefully to make it easy to read.  Here's how I did it:

 

1) Make the background black

2) Make the stock symbol and current price yellow.

3) Set the ticker speed to slow in the drop down list, and then set the slider scale to full slow as well.

4) If you're after, say, FTSE quotations,  you need to suffix them with '.L' for London, otherwise  you may qet the US equivalent if it uses the same code.

 

The end result is quite readable and not jerky.

 

My outstanding questions are:

 

1) An '*' appears next to symbols which apparently indicates news.  Does anbody know if this is a free service, or is it something that needs to be paid for?

2) If I wanted to display, say, the Japanese or Hong Kong indices as well as Dow JOnes, what symbol would I use?

 

Thanks again everybody and I hope this info is helpful to my fellow 'stock market losers!':mansad: