Stock Lookup

Searching for a stock symbol can be difficult. Many of the larger financial sites are slow to load and it is often quite difficult to find the input box where you are supposed to enter the company name whose symbol you are looking for. Slow loading is a major issue when the trader is in a hurry and just wants to get his hands on the symbol quickly. Why wait. At tickerfind.com you can find the stock symbol instantly. In fact, for most symbol searches conducted from a broadband based computer, the symbol search will happen in under two seconds. This is much faster than the major commercial sites where symbol searches take much longer, sometimes as many as 15 seconds for the information to be retreived and for the entire page to load. This is a long time, and there is really no reason to do this. After all, a stock symbol is a relatively small piece of information to search for. There is really no reason it should take so long.

One reason stock symbol searches take so long at the major financial sites is their search algorithms are not fine tuned for speed. In fact there is both a science and art to creating good search engines. There is always a tradeoff between speed and accuracy, unless of course you are running on a supercomputer in which case it really wouldn't make much difference. The fact is that most (dare I say all) of the computer servers being used at the major financial sites are not supercomputers. Therefore the search algorithm does matter and the fact is most of the time it is inefficient. The search algorithm used at tickerfind.com is much better and in fact has been fine tuned for maximum speed.