[PLUG] Has anybody made a stock ticker

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On Saturday 24 March 2018 01:48 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Using part of my blog post for sharing both the rationale and what is needed.
> 
> For quite sometime now, I had been thinking of how to get a stock
> ticker working in GNU/Linux. I know and knew lot of large financial
> institutions use GNU/Linux as finances are secrets and GNU/Linux is or
> can be great at keeping secrets. Hence I was under probably the false
> impression, I would just need to go to github or some code-sharing
> place and somebody would already have done something. For
> self-security as I’m a freelancer (we don’t have pensions in our part
> of world apart from Government and the defense services) I have
> invested some money in equities and some in Mutual Funds. Now the
> Bombay Stock Exchange lists both equities and mutual funds on its
> exchange. Now tuning on TV and trying to figure out stocks and what
> they are listing is a major time sink. I don’t need real-time quotes.
> There are quite a few services which give near-realtime quotes but
> even they are a bit of overkill for what I have in my mind.
> 
> I just need a ticker which takes the BSE codes and gives near-realtime
> quotes and displays it in the ticker. Joey Hess made one and its lying
> orphaned in debian.
> 
> That doesn’t really work for me. I did try the example as given by joeyh in
> 
> /usr/share/doc/ticker/examples$ cat sysinfo-ticker
> 
> while it works on the console on the upper part, I need it to be more
> of a stand-alone ticker which scrolls at the bottom near the bottom
> panel.
> 
> Brownie points if it’s able to store the output to another .json file
> along with IST time-stamp. Better if it’s also able to share the
> volume of trade. BSE does give all this info. for free in
> near-realtime quotes as money is made by big punters who do real-time
> purchase and sale within the working day itself.
> 
> Just to check out the competition, I did a search-engine fu search to
> see if there is a ticker for MS-Windows and somebody already made it.
> 
> https://bse-nse-stock-ticker.apponic.com/
> 
> If this is made possible and maybe at some future date might do a
> gnuplot once enough data is there.
> 
> For the data part, there are two competing services so it might be
> possible to use one as primary source and the other as secondary or
> fallback resource.
> 
> http://www.apidatafeed.com/product/equity
> 
> https://www.quandl.com/data/BSE-Bombay-Stock-Exchange
> 
> As shared, I did scour github.com but not sourceforge.net, mercurial
> or the hundred of code-sharing sites. I did however try our different
> keywords and re-arrangement of keywords in search-engines in the hopes
> I get a foss BSE sticker but didn't hit anything.
> 
> I did see another one at jstock.org and
> https://github.com/yccheok/jstock but github.com software doesn't give
> any instructions for self-compile or/and testing. Also don't
> implicitly trust random .bin files.
> 
> While I don't really care whether it's written in ruby, python,
> openjdk or some other fancy computer language as Debian has most other
> languages covered (only exceptions are C# and Oracle Java, won't run
> them)
> 
> FWIW, I am only looking for GPL, AGPL or any of the licenses listed on
> https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ although do prefer GPL, AGPL or
> Modified BSD License as these are the most common types of licenses I
> have worked it.
> 
> If any students do attempt to do it, would suggest looking at how
> joeyh has done with the ticker before trying their own.
> 

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