[PLUG] Has anybody made a stock ticker

[Skool!lookS]

4 not SO wise soul like me, who is still learning the ways of 
experiencing own freedom without harming other's interest is NN, The 
middle letter from both the words GNU & LINUX. Just supplement it with 
freely available, pure life Principle, "O" (Oh : 15.8), makes it "NONO"

"The Case Rests Hear", from a unique perspective.

Thanks for being patient audience.

[
Spelling Mistakes are the most intelligent input available to your 
intelligence that a wisdom may ever offer, unless an ego decides to 
climb down.

May it be a failure of auto-correction facility or transit errors 
introduced by carriers (a.k.a. freedom protecting agencies) to reduce 
the impact of payload, or your own uncorrected typing mistakes.
]

Let's wait for Plug's highly knowlegeable GNUtapalli-ji after his own 
self defined Period of Silence (POS) gets over.

On Monday 26 March 2018 03:13 PM, Skool!lookS wrote:
> Moreover all the important functions stacked together you become a dream 
> target of your would be cyber attacker.
> 
> The Key is to carry minimalistic physical load (software or otherwise) 
> when on Mt. Everest Expedition.
> 
> Every wise person knows (or learns along the way) what progress and 
> technology is all about.  So that we must leave all our gadgets outside 
> the important places of worship (like consulates).
> 
> Avoiding them altogether may not possible for all in the short run, but 
> once you have reached the summit of knowledge (even in case of foss and 
> whatever) climbing down to a middle path that help you in the long run 
> is advised.
> 
> Jainism is all about it...
> 
> 
> 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.
>>
> 

-- 
--
Consultant Spirituel

Guruvision Inc.