The Highly Technical Doohickey Company has released TickerMenu 2.0 (http://www.TickerMenu.com), an update of the Mac OS X-only application that lets you keep an eye on current stock prices by displaying them in the your menu bar. Now a single click reveals current, color-coded price information for all stocks in the user’s tracking list.

In TickerMenu 2.0, the user can specify that the information appearing in the menubar rotate through all of the symbols in the tracking list, changing at an interval selected by the user, from once a second to once a minute. Also, the user can now specify that any stock with significant price movement is highlighted.

With TickerMenu, clicking on a quote reveals more information about the stock and its trading activity, including the day’s high and low prices and trading volume. A click of a menu item leads directly to full information about a stock available from a variety of financial web sites.

Stock prices are updated automatically. Also, they’re color-coded to reflect daily increases (green) or decreases (red) in price; users may also select a greyscale display instead. Clicking on a quote in TickerMenu reveals more information about the stock and its trading activity, including the day’s high and low prices and trading volume.

A click of a menu item leads directly to full information about a stock available from a variety of popular financial web sites. TickerMenu is compatible with either Mac OS X 10.4 and higher.

TickerMenu is immediately available. It is free to try, and a registration code may be purchased for only $8.95 USD. More information about TickerMenu, including a demonstration video, can be viewed at the TickerMenu web site.