MarketWatch - News & Data Reviews – Page 21
5/5 rating based on 223 reviews. Read all reviews for MarketWatch - News & Data for iPhone.
MarketWatch - News & Data is free iOS app published by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Watch list fail
Tx_loneliz352
No problem with the articles but the main reason I got the app is because I wanted a way to track my portfolio and MW does good when it comes to before and post market. However I'd say about 70% of the time the app will give me a red banner at the bottom saying my watch list is unavailable. Really disappointing. Don't waste your time with the app. Stick the the website.
Zero instructions/mobility
ShanniLee7
You can do almost nothing in the app, you cant even get to the homepage! This is very frustrating because we are required to do this for class and now I have to navigate the almost as confusing website.
Good for monitoring, but a few considerations
Likeaknight
I like where the current app stands as far as monitoring markets, stories, and ongoing events, as well as sending alerts with significant market changes. This makes the app a fantastic monitoring system. However, I have a few ideas that I think should be taken into consideration for the app that would bring MarketWatch completely under the control of your smartphone. I feel that the MarketWatch app is lacking a serious component that I’d like to see made available - access to your VSE (Virtual Stock Exchange) games in the app. I don’t like how I have to switch to Safari (or other internet browser) to make changes to my VSE game portfolios or get on my laptop to make such changes. Since the app already uses internet connections to get stories, why can’t it do the same for my VSE games and make me able to make changes to my virtual portfolios on my smartphone app? Plus, the sliders, buttons, and menus already make the experience mostly smartphone-friendly in my perspective. Also, I’d like to see that searching for certain stocks would be made a little more “user-friendly” where I could search for a specific name-brand product that I know a company sells, but not knowing what the company’s name or stock abbreviation is, and be able to see that the app knows what I’m trying to find. For example, I want to be able to search “Xbox” and have Microsoft (MSFT) come up or search “IPhone” and have Apple (APPL) come up, along with significantly related companies, like partners/competitors (ex. EA for “Xbox” or IBM for “Apple”) with all of their market data. Similarly, sometimes I’m looking for a company that isn’t publicly traded. Instead of showing a blank bar that says “no results” I want the bar to say something that makes me feel like it understands what I want to find but tell me it doesn’t exist on the open market, kind of like Netflix’s “search titles related to...” in their search box when you try to find a movie/show that isn’t in their database. This means that it isn’t just telling me it can’t find what’s in the search box, but it’s able to understand what I haven’t typed in completely and show that it doesn’t have results for what I’m trying to find. This feature is already part-way there where I can type in an existing company and it’s market info comes up, along with closely-titled stocks, but I’m looking for more flexibility and understanding in the search features. I would also appreciate it if MarketWatch offered tips and tutorials on how to utilize the information that the stock market gives. I understand the basic stuff - stock price, buying/selling, time charts, etc. but I’m struggling to understand the more complex information and charts. A quick overview/tutorial would be much appreciated, especially on what the charts for individual stocks and their components mean to me as a potential/invested virtual stockholder.
Good app but could be better with one feature...
alli9422
The ability to bookmark articles for later is a feature that would be very useful in this app. There have been a number of times I wanted to come back to an article or read it later and could not book mark it.
More fake news
PGM60
WSJ is becoming another fake news, sky is falling (while market climbs) business news source. I use this only for data presentation which is good. Don’t read the so-called news stories.
Detail app
Azad k
I like thus app very much I used it every day I benefited in trading for profits every week Question how do I put my watch list in alphabetical order Many thanks
Very Biased Articles
skim299
Definitely not objective journalism, very biased articles and obviously sponsored.
What I don’t like
Wagoosh
In the mobile version, if I make an error in entering a stock symbol, there isn’t any way to back space and correct the error, much less delete that entry, that’s my problem with this program.