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Best stock market apps for iPhone and iPad for 2012

The iPad is the latest craze and I purchased mine recently. No doubt it is much better than a PC. You can simply sit in your bed with this tablet or carry it on your way to the office and the sheer convenience it offers is hard to beat. I have had the iPhone for years and as an investor I have used to track my portfolio of stocks whenever I am on the move.

On my iPhone I have these apps which I think are still going strong in 2012

CNBC Real Time – As the name suggests this one from CNBC provides real time news and stock prices. The best part of the app is the great interfaces and the historical interactive charts that it dishes out for each stock.

Stock Ticker Picker – This is the one which I use to build my portfolio and create the watch lists. It has some really good tools to create the portfolio and track the stock prices, gains and technical charts.

I also have the usual suspects which I use rarely though which are the The Street app and the Market Watch app.

Here are the two must have apps for your iPad in 2012

Stock Guru – This app is simply too good and I would say that it is the Guru of all apps. The app has some real great information for each stock. It gives all the information with regards to analysing the risk factors for a particular stock. It also tells about the financial strength of the company via the financial ratios. It also assigns a guru rating to a stock to help make you a decision of a particular stock. With that guru rating then is the financial rating, the momentum rating, the risk rating and the risk score. Unbeatable is what I would say for those who buy and sell stock all by themselves rather than relying on a stock broker.

Stock Watch – As the name suggests this one is for pure tracking of stocks within your portfolio and for creating the watch lists for stocks to buy. It gives real time information on stock prices and also builds the technical charts for the stocks. It is purely for checking the stock prices and basic information about the stock related trades. Still a must have for keeping a tab on your portfolio.

Other good iPad apps are

Ichartist – If you are a technical analyst to the core then you need this app. It will give you some technical charts with charts likes Bollinger bands, 200 DMA, Candlestick patterns, exponential moving average etc.

Bloomberg for iPad – Coming form Bloomberg this app is really great and works like a charm. It has real time data on stocks as well as news from all the stock market around the world. There are some great tools that you can use within this app and also get some expert advices with Podcasts that are sent for your consumption.

Market Watch – This one from Dow Jones has tons of information though I do not think this is as focussed an app as the others. This has good amount of articles and theories and discussions to help you form an opinion for a stock or the trends in the stock market in general.

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