It is a fact of life that press releases influence the current price of a stock. People react emotionally and buy stocks on good press releases, and sell stocks on bad ones, regardless of the validity of the press release. If you can get the news first, you can be in a favorable position to take advantage and gain financially. This article describes how to obtain online stock press releases when they are first announced.

One way to be the first to obtain online press releases on stocks would be to constantly watch one or more of the financial News web pages for a press release via Business Wire. Yahoo provides a popular and reliable financial news web page (

A better way to accomplish the task of monitoring the financial news web pages would be to have someone or something else do it for you, and then notify you. For instance, you can use web page watching software on your computer or you can subscribe to a web page watching service on the Internet.

Running software on your computer to monitor a financial news web page, such as Yahoo's, is easy to do and gives you complete control over when and what you want to watch for. It can also give you faster notification on press release discoveries. There are many programs available on the web to do this. Easy Web Page Watcher by Patrick DiRienzo (

If you do not have full time Internet access, but have email, the next best method of obtaining press releases automatically is to subscribe to a web page watching service. Again there are many services that do this. WatchThatPage (

About The Author

Bill Peifer holds a degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering and has written several computer technology related articles.