On 26/03/2018, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 1:48 AM, shirish शिरीष <[email protected]> > 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. >> > > > I believe you will be connected to the net all the time when using such > tickers. Also assuming you will be using some browser for the ticker. > > A simple google search for "Indian stock market ticker > {desktop/android/....} gave me enough sensible results. Many of these > tickers can be customised as per user needs. > > Not able to understand why the ticker has to be under FOSS. In any case, > live data is freely available but need to pay for the same to get it in > your required formats. > > Regards > -Sudhanwa >
Not necessary, as shared before on the thread, even EOD (End of Day) tickers would be good enough. Also the links I shared for the data feed, as far as I could tell, you don't need to pay for them unless and until you want 'live' data feed. The 15-30 minute delayed data feed is useless for any 'real trader' as trades happen in seconds or even micro-seconds if you look into 'algorithmic trading' https://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Algorithmic%20trading As far as the question of having it under foss, it's simple, the data is then at the user's end and as such is able to play/understand it a little bit. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list [email protected] http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
