As a revenue model for analyst firms (pluggin in their charts with online dailies)? I doubt if dailies would be willing to pay for that. They know while a reader could be obsessed with a piece of news on iPhone, she’ll be hardly interested in knowing what is Apple’s 200 DMA or its EBITDA margin. If analyst firms offer it as freebie to derive brand mileage, then may be.

Coming to day traders. Professional day traders and arbitrageurs are focused operators. They are `hot’ after one or two stocks for 2 or 3 weeks before they move on to the next buzz. During that `hot’ period, they know everything about price action in the stock(s) they chase. So even for them, pop-up charts are meddlesome kibitz. Having spent a whole trading day in front of the monitor looking at nothing but those price movements, they may retch if they are fed with more on those, again. Especially if it happens to be a day when their calls had gone horribly wrong, last thing they want is an action replay. They might be in for some light read, to shake off the blues seeking some calming distraction. The pop-ups could rub it in if they leap off a page when they least expect it.