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Monitoring a stock ticker is a great way to keep up with your investments and stay abreast of stock market activity with a quick glance. If you're looking for an easy way to check your stock portfolio, try the free stock ticker product from AOL Money & Finance. Learn how you can view a dynamic ticker with your favorite stocks, check your portfolio, customize your stock ticker and sign up for stock ticker alerts.

Stock Ticker Based on Recent Quotes

If you look up any ticker symbol, that stock is automatically added to your recent quotes. Looking up a quote is as easy as entering the ticker symbol in the search bar at the top of the page. Your recent quotes stock ticker will appear at the top of the stock quote page.

Stock Ticker Specific to Your Portfolios

You can customize your stock ticker by creating a portfolio. Click the blue "Create a New Portfolio" button in the My Investments module to the right and follow the instructions on the next page. Once you've set up your portfolios you can select what data you want displayed in your stock ticker. Simply click the "Recent Quotes" label to the left of your stock ticker and you can choose the name of the portfolio you want to display.

Create or Edit Portfolios From Your Stock Ticker

You can create or edit portfolios using the link appearing directly to the right of your stock market ticker. If you're viewing an existing portfolio in your ticker, the link will read "Edit Portfolio." If you're viewing either the markets ticker or your recent quotes ticker, the links will read "Save as New Portfolio."

More Efficient Than a Ticker?

If you don't have time to monitor a stock ticker but still need to be informed of stock market fluctuations, sign up for stock alerts. You can arrange to be alerted for a variety of events including when a stock reaches a certain price, fluctuates a certain percentage or hits a 52 week high or low.