Hi,

I'm new to this whole google finance API. I apologize ahead of time if I'm asking a redundant question.

1. My goal is to monitor a set of quotes from the shanghai stock exchange. If there are any significant movements (say stock X went up by more than 1%), I would like the movement to be displayed in a custom manner. Would the finance gadget would fit my needs? I understand from http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1060 that google finance does have quotes from the shang hai exchange.

2. I started poking around with the finance gadget. I was wondering if anyone has experienced any problems with the hello world finance gadget sample as referenced by the first page of financial gadgets - http://code.google.com/apis/finance/docs/finance-gadgets.html#hello_world_example

The example here is supposed to show quotes for GOOG, AAPL, and INTC. According to the webpage, I should see something like this -

Hello world! Here is your portfolio: GOOG: 631.58 (+15.58) AAPL: 171.46 (+1.88) INTC: 26.65 (+1.17)

However, when I copied the sample code over to a google gadget editor, with no modifications, I only see the following.

Hello world! Here is your portfolio: GOOG: - (-) AAPL: - (-) INTC: - (-)

I've only tried this after the market closes. I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Has anyone ran the hello world sample with success? Were there any modifications to the source code? Does it matter what system/browser was used?

thanks