[HN Gopher] A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker
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A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker
Author : maydemir
Score : 342 points
Date : 2021-02-03 10:33 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| amerf1 wrote:
| Love this! Would love to see more features in there I know
| someone mentioned charts which is great! Other features could be
| news/fundamentals! Let me know if you want to brainstorm my
| Twitter is in my bio. I used to work at a data vendor that
| competed with Bloomberg have plenty of ideas!
| elhudy wrote:
| This is nice, but what I would really like to see is a tracker
| for heavy volume trading. If some hedge fund suddenly purchases
| 1% of a pharmaceutical company, I want an alert on so I can act
| on it quickly.
|
| Does anyone know of a tool that does this?
| [deleted]
| DLA wrote:
| A Bloomberg Terminal, amazing but $$$$. If a _good_ hedge fund
| does this then it will be done quietly and across accounts, in
| dark pools, as a direct trade, or other "off tape" move, often
| reported later. They're not just going to throw a 1% sized
| trade in as a limit order for you to see, so the "act on it
| quickly" part is not as easy as you may think. (Former
| professional trader)
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| Would be good to add support for trading indicators like MACD,
| RSI, etc.
| uberswe wrote:
| I made something similar for cryptocurrencies a while back
| https://github.com/uberswe/golang-cryptotracker
| jgrahamc wrote:
| What are people doing that requires this?
| odiroot wrote:
| Being bored at a desk job, would be my guess.
| person_of_color wrote:
| Yep, many FAANG employees got rich trading during lockdown.
| valuearb wrote:
| They all went busto yesterday.
| frockington1 wrote:
| Market was up almost 2% yesterday, great day for anyone
| over the age of 20
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Only if they went all in on an overvalued meme stock like
| GME; if they put money in an index, like the one that
| follows the S&P 500, they would be up by anywhere between
| ~10% and ~45% depending on when they got in. Long-term,
| broad-spectrum trends have always been upwards.
|
| TL;DR don't bet all your money on one horse. stock.
| whichever.
|
| (This is not financial advice, I am not a financial
| expert, and results from the past are not representative
| of future results)
| doovd wrote:
| Can't tell if this is sarcasm but this is, on balance of
| probabilities, not true.
| frockington1 wrote:
| Lockdown was an incredible easy time to make money. The
| market is up over 50% from the lows. Was an incredibly
| easy time to make a lot of money with very little effort
| or skill
| mschuster91 wrote:
| People who had the spare cash lying around to "buy the
| dip" of the March 2020 crash
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_stock_market_crash)
| caused by coronavirus panic and held their stocks until
| now have enjoyed 58% growth of their investment even when
| picking dumb index funds (e.g. S&P 500: 2237.40 at
| 23.03., current 3826.31).
|
| Crises of this magnitude always benefit those with liquid
| assets / cash who can afford to buy out those who have to
| exit out of (financial) pressure and ride out the crisis.
| The 2008ff crisis was just the same - whoever bought a
| house at fire-sale foreclosure rates back then now has a
| lot of net worth.
| [deleted]
| palebluedot wrote:
| "Require" might be a strong word.
|
| But here is why I find this project attractive: I like to check
| out my watchlists and stock investments occasionally when
| taking a quick break. But, I want to avoid being sucked into
| the browser where the temptation is strong to check out
| reddit/hn/twitter, and then lose 15-20min.
|
| With this, I can just keep a terminal tab that I can flip to
| with a hotkey. This way, I won't leave the terminal, and the
| risk of additional distraction is lower.
| valuearb wrote:
| Psychology, monitoring long term investments closely is a bad
| idea. Very seldom is price information actionable, and can
| easily lead to frustration or boredom induced action.
|
| 99.99% of investors should buy and hold and forget. If you
| have the intelligence and interest to earn your CFA, you
| should do your valuation analysis to set your buy and sell
| prices for potential targets, and ignore their price action
| until they near a target range.
| palebluedot wrote:
| Not sure if I agree, although I'm sure it varies per
| person. I've been investing for > 20 years, and I enjoy
| watching the daily movement as it helps me keep a mental
| model of trends and performance. I seldom sell, but do buy
| regularly, and I think having this information frequently
| refreshed in my brain has helped my performance (of course,
| no way for me to do an A/B comparison there, so I can't
| assert it as fact).
| valuearb wrote:
| A Buffett story you might find interesting. He refuses to
| look at the stock price of any potential investment while
| he is doing his valuation for it.
|
| His thinking is if he falls in love with the business
| while reading their financial reports, and he knows the
| stock is trading at $10, he's subconsciously influenced
| to bias his valuation estimate over $10, because he wants
| to buy it.
|
| So he waits to ensure his valuation is as unbiased as
| possible, and only when finished checks the price. Kind
| of like the excitement of opening a present at XMas, not
| knowing if it's a lump of goal or new AirPods.
| smabie wrote:
| What if your investments aren't long term?
| valuearb wrote:
| Then you are not an investor, you are a trader. And if
| you are a trader, you shouldn't be distracting yourself
| by writing code during market hours.
| frockington1 wrote:
| This is exactly what happened to me as I type this. I went to
| check on futures after yesterdays rally, and 20 minutes later
| I'm commenting on this post. Use case validated
| tyingq wrote:
| I imagine it might show up in the background of some FinTech
| hacker movie at some point.
| belgianpi wrote:
| this is fantastic. thanks.
| [deleted]
| moontear wrote:
| How is it that pretty much all stock trackers / APIs only support
| US symbols? There are so many stocks out there that don't have a
| symbol and have an ISIN. Is everybody only trading symbol-based
| stocks? That seems very limited to me.
| debarshri wrote:
| The application uses Yahoo finance to fetch the market
| information. It is generally delayed by 30 minutes for exchanges
| like AEX or other european exchanges.
|
| What I generally do it query the endpoint in EURONEXT's portal
| https://live.euronext.com/en/intraday_chart/getDetailedQuote...
| directly to get the current stock information which is almost
| real time.
|
| You can also track intraday price from EURONEXT via -
| https://live.euronext.com/intraday_chart/getChartData/FR0000...
| riku_iki wrote:
| EURONEXT is only for European (not US) stocks, right?
| omneity wrote:
| Try Monitoro[0] on that website to setup alerts with Slack,
| Discord, IFTTT, Zapier ... painlessly, no code. Our delay is
| 1-2 seconds at most to delivery so you should get it pretty
| fast.
|
| (Disclaimer: I'm the founder)
|
| [0]: https://monitoro.xyz
| [deleted]
| sub7 wrote:
| You have no idea how useful this is for me. I have nativefier
| wrapped yahoo finance/msn money/coinstats etc which are all
| pretty bloated and this gives me all I need with around 1%
| overhead. Many thanks.
| teekert wrote:
| Nice! This would be great if it could output HTML, then I'd
| configure it with the Yaml, make cronjob on my homeserver to auto
| update and point my browser to it (or more like point it to the
| nginx container behind my traefik container). But still, this is
| also very nice, will install tonight.
|
| I made something like that myself with the Bittrex API (for
| crypto) once myself (based on Python and
| pandas.DataFrame.to_html()), very useful.
| rayshan wrote:
| Great work! I see that you're using Yahoo Finance data. Yahoo
| deprecated its API so your data could stop flowing at any time.
| You can try free services like Alpha Vantage [0] or Google
| Finance formulas in Google Sheets exposed as an CSV / JSON.
| Another way is to hook up a freemium service like IEX [1] and ask
| your users to BYOK - bring your own key. I use IEX for my stock
| watching browser extension [2] and eat the costs for my users.
| It's not too bad.
|
| [0] https://www.alphavantage.co/
|
| [1] https://iexcloud.io/
|
| [2] https://finance.shan.io/stock-inspector-discover-new-
| compani...
| xeonoex wrote:
| Isn't AlphaVantage free limited to 5 requests a minute and 500
| a day? And it requires an API key?
| rayshan wrote:
| I think it's a soft limit? I haven't run into the limit, but
| then it's not my primary data vendor. Just ask them and
| they'll give you an API key for free.
| omneity wrote:
| An alternative way is to monitor the data and extract it from
| the Yahoo Finance website itself (or another one for the
| matter).
|
| We solve this at Monitoro[0] and we make it easy to receive
| alerts or just store historical prices in SaaS apps and
| automation platforms. No fear of losing access to the API, and
| no need for coding in the first place.
|
| (Disclaimer: I'm the founder)
|
| [0]: https://monitoro.xyz
| rayshan wrote:
| I think your service is super helpful for many small volume
| use cases! But it doesn't come with guarantees right? Like if
| Yahoo moves its UI around, change elements and classes, etc.
| omneity wrote:
| not yet, but you will be notified that extraction has
| stopped, and you can fix it in a few seconds.
|
| We want to make it eventually robust to changes unless the
| data was really removed from the webpage you're monitoring.
| Glench wrote:
| Have you considered charging for your extension? I just made
| https://extensionpay.com which makes it easy to add payments in
| your extension without needing to run your own server.
| rayshan wrote:
| I have! This is timely because Chrome Web Store just killed
| its payment system. How does this compare to using Stripe out
| of the box?
|
| BTW I think someone was trying to start a browser extension
| developer guild on HN, can't remember which thread... You
| should tap into that community.
| Glench wrote:
| > How does this compare to using Stripe out of the box?
|
| Basically you don't need to run your own server / database
| / custom Stripe integration code / user management system /
| custom extension integration, which is annoying to write
| yourself and costs money to run a server. With ExtensionPay
| you just add a little code in your extension [open source
| here](https://github.com/Glench/ExtPay) and register your
| extension in the web UI. I made it for use in my own
| extensions :)
|
| > BTW I think someone was trying to start a browser
| extension developer guild on HN, can't remember which
| thread... You should tap into that community.
|
| Cool, I'll check it out, thanks. Any other hints to how I
| could find it?
| joncrane wrote:
| Does it provide real time quotes for options as well?
| popol12 wrote:
| Nice tool! The ETH-BTC pair is limited by the 2 decimals display,
| for instance, is this configurable somewhere? It would also be
| great for crypto traders to source all trading pairs available on
| coingecko.com, not just the few available on yahoo finance :)
| pavlov wrote:
| I remember what the stock market mood was like in early 2000.
| Everyone breathlessly watching their favorite stocks, IPOs
| jumping 100%+ on first day of trading, tech companies entering
| large indexes...
|
| This year feels exactly the same as 21 years ago, but people are
| saying it's different because of Covid, Fed buys, etc.
|
| Then again, "this time it's different!" is the rallying cry at
| the peak of every bubble.
| fred_is_fred wrote:
| So many people fail to see this. The number of stock market
| "investors" making Tik Tok videos and people gambling with rent
| money might even be worse than 2000.
| Someone1234 wrote:
| People are bored and trapped at home. It isn't that
| surprising that day trading as a hobby has picked up a
| little.
|
| A market correction wouldn't be that surprising in general,
| but keep in mind a bubble and a correction aren't the same
| thing. Plus, and maybe more importantly, even know a
| correction _could_ occur without knowing _when_ isn 't
| actually actionable information (could be tomorrow, next
| year, or three years from now, and you would lose money if
| you react at the wrong time).
|
| So people saying we're in a bubble/correction is due, what
| action would you have people take? If the answer is "nothing"
| or "I don't know" then what good is that?
| loopercal wrote:
| >what action would you have people take
|
| People can obviously do whatever they want as long as
| they're aware past performance...blah...blah...don't invest
| more than you can lose...blah.
|
| I've pulled out from everything with a rich P/E ratio and
| am only keeping money in companies that I feel are a)
| stable and b) have a reasonable-to-low P/E ratio.
|
| My thought is that new investors tend to go for well-known
| companies or meme stocks, but either way driving up the P/E
| ratio. I don't want to be caught in the downswing when
| these investors leave.
| fred_is_fred wrote:
| The difference here is understanding that investing and
| gambling are not the same thing. If they are investing for
| retirement and buying low cost index funds, I would do
| nothing. If they are gambling due to the dank memes, I
| would ensure that I wasn't gambling anything I couldn't
| afford to lose.
| stouset wrote:
| People have also been steadfastly insisting the market will
| crash again for... well, actually, I don't think it's even
| stopped briefly since the recession.
|
| During the recession we were told that the days of 10%+ YoY
| returns in the market were over and that we could expect to
| live in a world with 3%-5% from here on out. The market
| meanwhile has gone up _fivefold_ in the interceding 12 years,
| or roughly a 15% annual return.
|
| All along the way have been the doomsayers insisting that the
| market will crash, that it feels like 2000 all over again, that
| Trump, or COVID, or Biden will destroy the stock market, that
| being at all-time-highs, having an unprecedented CAPE ratio, or
| quantitative easing is going to send things tumbling... and yet
| here we are. Sure, the crash will come at some point, but given
| the thousands of failed predictions I've seen in the past
| twenty years I have zero faith in anyone's individual ability
| to correctly guess when it will happen.
| pavlov wrote:
| 2012-2019 offered great returns, but it didn't have the same
| breathless mood as prevails now.
|
| Taxi drivers want to talk about stocks. Every graph is
| looking parabolic. Day trading has boomed. Last time these
| things happened was 1999-2000.
| vkou wrote:
| Okay, do what's your play, here? You sit 2021 out, the s&p
| froths up to 5.5k over the next 18 months, and then crashes
| down to 3.7k? And you _perfectly_ time buying the dip?
| (Unlikely.)
|
| You'll still lose money, compared to just buying and
| holding.
| pavlov wrote:
| Owning stocks is a good idea. But if you just buy the S&P
| every month, you probably don't need a "terminal stock
| watcher and stock position tracker", which is the program
| being discussed here. It seems like a symptom of a short-
| term exuberance that may not end well for most
| participants.
| maigret wrote:
| Indeed. https://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-
| investors-performe...
| chad_strategic wrote:
| -> Then again, "this time it's different!" is the rallying cry
| at the peak of every bubble.
|
| It is different!
|
| Trillions of dollars magically printed by the Fed. Bitcoin,
| Doge Coin, Robinhood, Covid, GameStop, Trump, insurrection...
|
| Fiat currency always ends the same, it's the duration of the
| fiat currency that I believe is the variable.
| yarky wrote:
| I don't know in early 2000 but this time everybody's calling it
| by its name, a bubble.
| moksly wrote:
| While I do think the low global interest rates, national debts,
| general housing prizes, and, real valuable estate being hogged
| by hedge funds makes things significantly different from the
| 2000, I don't think middle class stock options have. Sure you
| have fewer options because of the things I mention, meaning the
| only place to keep minor wealth is in stock, but the danger
| isn't different.
|
| Diversify and put most of your money into boring industries
| like water and energy companies that aren't stuck on a single
| type of fuel, and you'll be alright.
|
| People who shoot for the moon are playing the lottery and most
| of them are going to lose. It's always been like that, and I
| don't think that's different now.
|
| I'm much more worried about the inequality we've created. I'm a
| boring investor, and the worst stock I have from 2000 is
| Vestas, and it's up around 900% since then. This isn't take me
| to the moon money like the gamblers who get it right earn, but
| it's 900% more than all the people who live pay check to pay
| check.
| hpkuarg wrote:
| "This time it's different!" is also the rallying cry for people
| trying to time the peak ;-)
| nostromo wrote:
| If you're going to pattern match, you're almost always wrong
| calling any specific moment a bubble.
|
| The S&P 50 has closed within 5% of its all-time high 32% of
| days for its entirety. 1 out of every 15 days the market closes
| at an all time high. And the vast, vast majority of those don't
| end up being the precipice of a crash. In fact, even the ones
| that do predate a crash almost always end up being perfectly
| fine times to invest for long-term growth.
|
| The null hypothesis really should be that most markets aren't
| bubbles. So, a "why is this time it different" argument should
| be required from people calling it a bubble, not from those
| saying it's not.
| mattnewton wrote:
| I've heard this sentiment call hundreds of tech bubbles since
| the dotcom boom, and we've seen only one in an unrelated
| sector. I am not saying it isn't a bubble, just that market
| enthusiasm tends to look like a bubble but happens all the time
| without crashing everything.
| vkou wrote:
| This is the correct take on it. That kind of analysis has
| predicted eighteen of the last three bubbles.
|
| The problem is that while, say, stocks are frothy, eventually
| inflation catches up to the froth - so even when the crash
| happens, you end up better off than if you sat the frothy
| market out on the sidelines.
|
| It doesn't help to be right in the direction of the market,
| when you're wrong in the timing of it.
| brewdad wrote:
| Agreed. As much as I wished I had sold some positions last
| February when it was clear something big was building in
| Asia, I am confident that I wouldn't have had the guts to
| buy back in after the crash and would have missed out on
| the rebound gains.
|
| In the end, I'm probably better off having held and
| continuing to buy every couple of weeks throughout than
| trying to time the market swings from COVID.
| oarsinsync wrote:
| > As much as I wished I had sold some positions last
| February when it was clear something big was building in
| Asia
|
| I did this.
|
| > I am confident that I wouldn't have had the guts to buy
| back in after the crash and would have missed out on the
| rebound gains.
|
| I did this too.
|
| > In the end, I'm probably better off having held and
| continuing to buy every couple of weeks throughout than
| trying to time the market swings from COVID.
|
| I wish I'd done this.
| ROARosen wrote:
| Exactly, the market is definitely overenthusiastic which we
| can call a bubble. So we keep on hearing all those claiming
| it is a bubble in the sense that it will imminently "pop"
| because people will always want to say "I predicted the
| bubble will pop". So they will wake up every few months (when
| the market peaks yet again) and shout "bubble, bubble" so
| that just in case it happens _now_ they can be the
| foresighted ones.
|
| The amount of times we've heard "bubble" over past few years,
| even while/if true, in of itself keeps people from taking it
| seriously.
| freewilly1040 wrote:
| What's possibly different with this alleged bubble is the
| influx of retail into the market and day trading in general.
| The wallstreetbets sub has grown at least 3x during this
| episode, and I know personally of several people who were
| previously uninterested in stocks now looking to trade.
| mattnewton wrote:
| Sure, but then the argument for it being a bubble is "it is
| different this time." It could be, I don't know! But plenty
| of interest in retail investing has not resulted in a bust
| before.
| pc86 wrote:
| So the important questions then are 1) is it _actually_
| different? and 2) if it is different, is it different in a way
| that prevents or mitigates a bubble? I could see things like
| COVID and Fed interventionalism changing the dynamics such that
| a bubble is harder or less damaging when it pops. I could also
| see the opposite. I just don 't know, and I was entering my
| freshman year of HS in 2000 so I don't really remember what it
| was like to be working and invested in the market at that
| point.
| pstadler wrote:
| This seems very nice and I'll definitely give it a shot. If
| you're looking for something simple, try ticker.sh[1].
|
| [1] https://github.com/pstadler/ticker.sh
| FriedrichN wrote:
| Looks cool! Also thanks for exposing me to jq, that will come
| in handy for sure.
| [deleted]
| Wonnk13 wrote:
| would this be considered best practices in terms of organizing
| and testing a go package?
|
| I'm brand new to the language, so curious if this could serve as
| a reference project? For example, I'm not sure if it's standard
| to use resty for a rest client as seen in this project?
| sixhobbits wrote:
| A see a lot of these that use Yahoo Finance API - AFAIU, it was
| deprecated many years ago and I guess might be in something close
| to a "forgot to switch off" state.
|
| I wonder how much will break when they finally turn it off.
| davidkuennen wrote:
| There's still also a lot of apps around obviously using the
| Yahoo Finance API. Apps with hundrets of thousands of
| downloads. I'm curious as well.
| ihuman wrote:
| It looks like the same API that the Yahoo Finance website calls
| (via react)
| gruez wrote:
| Doesn't the ios stock app also use yahoo finance api as well?
| PartiallyTyped wrote:
| Yes both the iOS and MacOS use yahoo finance api as well.
| Perhaps Apple is paying the bill here.
| tl wrote:
| One difference between this and Apple: Apple's apps show
| the news stories when you pick a stock where Yahoo
| presumably can get ad revenue. I doubt this gets popular
| enough to be targeted though.
| wp381640 wrote:
| Funny only recently I noticed the ads in the Stocks app
| and thought it was very un-apple
| chillingeffect wrote:
| fwiw, idm, ISTR it being turned off around 2018, so I'm
| surprised to see it working again.
| nautilus12 wrote:
| Anything like this with watchlist that dynamically populates
| based on highest and lowest momentum?
| submeta wrote:
| Awesome! Anyone know a similar project in Python?
| DLA wrote:
| Brilliant work. Love it so much. With a black terminal it has a
| nice pro feel to it. How I miss having a Bloomberg box. Great
| app. Install was flawless. Love the CLI options. A little reverse
| text flash upon price change would be amazing. Or a timestamp
| with the last update time.
| joelbluminator wrote:
| It's nice, what API's is the author using I wonder? All free
| stock APIs that I checked are no longer functioning, only paid
| products remain.
| maddyboo wrote:
| Looks like Yahoo! Finanace:
|
| https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker/blob/8722bc93eed178...
|
| DIY: curl
| 'https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?lang=en-US&r
| egion=US&corsDomain=finance.yahoo.com&symbols=AMZN,GOOG,GME' |
| jq
| huhtenberg wrote:
| It's right there, in the readme - Notes
| Real-time quotes - Quotes are pulled from Yahoo finance.
| andylynch wrote:
| Looking at the European landscape, venues are required to make
| trade & price data freely available 15 minutes after
| publication - it'd be an interesting project to build something
| to aggragate these.
| tchalla wrote:
| > Real-time quotes - Quotes are pulled from Yahoo finance which
| may provide delayed stock quotes depending on the exchange. The
| major US exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ) have real-time quotes however
| other exchanges may not. Consult the help article on exchange
| delays to determine which exchanges you can expect delays for
| or use the --show-tags flag to include timeliness of data
| alongside quotes in ticker.
|
| The ReadMe says Yahoo Finance.
| obayesshelton wrote:
| I hope you support banana and show a diamond for every 100% gain
| rcar1046 wrote:
| This is very well done. Didn't realize Yahoo APIs were still
| live. I made one using IEX.
|
| https://stockdaddy.io/samples/dashboard/
|
| They offer an excellent API for a very reasonable price and offer
| it free to people if you're interested in a more comprehensive
| solution for free. Also, take a look at IEX if you're interested
| in getting into financial APIs.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| Edit: Oops, thought this was a Show HN.
|
| Looks pretty clean.
|
| If you want a fun feature to build, add tiny sparkline graphs.
| Maybe pressing z/x/c/v can switch between last
| hour/day/month/year charts on each stock item.
|
| Check out https://github.com/holman/spark for how to make graphs
| with simple character glyphs.
|
| I realize my problem with terminal programs like this is that I
| forget to ever use them. That's why I prefer something like a
| macOS menubar app that I can toggle to run at startup.
| stanislavb wrote:
| Thanks!
| qorrect wrote:
| Many of us don't use macOS, there are plenty of mac apps for
| stock tracking.
|
| My only complaint is it's always going to be 15 minutes behind
| if you're using public sources, otherwise I love it!
| zwily wrote:
| Yahoo Finance API is real-time for Nasdaq and NYSE. Delayed
| for most other exchanges though.
| rhacker wrote:
| It's amazing how many times the original author finds out about
| random HN posts anyway...
| Jtsummers wrote:
| tmux. I have a set of tmux panes which show my current
| financial status. It's just a couple keypresses away when I'm
| on the terminal. Things like this, or a terminal weather app,
| can easily become a quick dashboard using another set of panes.
| But I practically live in emacs so being on the terminal is
| natural to me.
| colesantiago wrote:
| This is neat and very cool, just installed it!
|
| Since we're talking about API's and finance and not to hijack the
| thread, does anyone know or recommend an economic calendar REST
| API feed?
| slig wrote:
| For anyone looking for a Yahoo Finance API alternative, try
| http://alphavantage.co/
| jdoss wrote:
| A free API key is great, but what is the catch? The whole
| Robinhood drama about them selling data to third parties has me
| leery about anything "free" in finance SaaS.
| [deleted]
| kristopolous wrote:
| It's tiered. They have a "pay me" tier.
| jdoss wrote:
| I totally missed that. Thanks!
|
| edit: For those wondering what the price is it's on this
| page https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/ which is not very
| apparent from the front page.
| Terretta wrote:
| They mention they are "partnered with"
| https://polygon.io/stocks and send you there for real
| time.
| welterde wrote:
| Sadly the limits for the free tier look too low to even
| run this CLI ticker application off of it (or is it
| possible to query more than one symbol in one API call?).
| slig wrote:
| FWIW, last year I was playing with this API and they were
| not verifying the key properly: just appended anything at
| the end of the key and it worked.
| alisonkisk wrote:
| Robinhood drama isn't "selling data" it's selling access to
| fulfill bids.
|
| It's akin ordering delivery from a store and having Instacart
| be the only option.
|
| Most of the drama was misinformed speculation. A bit was
| suspicion that the order fulfiller was untrustworthy (because
| the reason they are willing to provide the service is that
| they know you will make bad trades, so what happens if you
| make a good trade that makes them lose money?)
| hdra wrote:
| I cant find any info regarding this, but do they have data on
| global exchanges? More specifically those in Asia?
| tbrock wrote:
| Eh, no websocket for prices? I like finnhub
| (https://finnhub.io) or alpaca (https://alpaca.markets/)
| better.
| slig wrote:
| I forgot to write "a [free] alternative to Yahoo Finances"
| jordache wrote:
| public websockets API? Doesn't that introduce a lot of
| scaling issues for the API provider?
| jkarneges wrote:
| It does, but it doesn't have to. :) https://fanout.io
|
| (Disclosure: founder)
| coder543 wrote:
| Not really. A websocket is "just" a TCP connection.
|
| If the API provider is using a language+framework that
| can't easily handle lots of concurrent TCP connections,
| then yes, that could cause scaling issues, but... that's a
| choice.
|
| There are plenty of ways to build scalable socket servers,
| and it's especially feasible in languages like Go and
| Elixir.
| kruxigt wrote:
| What would you say pros and cons are compared to yahoo?
| slig wrote:
| It's a supported API, with free and paid plans. The Yahoo API
| has been officially dead for years, they just didn't pull the
| plug yet.
| kruxigt wrote:
| Yeah, the state of Yahoo is really strange. It's still the
| best free one I've found. Why I'm looking for
| alternatives..
| rcar1046 wrote:
| I would look into https://iexcloud.io/ as well. I used their
| excellent set of APIs to build https://stockdaddy.io/
| kruxigt wrote:
| Is anyone really using any of these stock trackers (including
| those built in in OSX etc? I think the whole idea is broken. This
| is why:
|
| If you are interested enough to regularly check the price of
| certain stocks and indices you know that the most important thing
| is that the shown price is CORRECT. And you know that the most
| trustworthy way to get a correct price is to go directly to the
| largest brokers and the largest and most trusted portals like
| Investing.com and Marketwatch.
|
| On the other hand if you don't care that much. Why the hell would
| you like to have a special application for checking when you
| could as well go to any of the above?
| dreamcompiler wrote:
| If you're a long-hold investor who lives in the terminal, it's
| perfectly fine. Plus watching GME crash in ASCII is
| entertaining.
| kruxigt wrote:
| I would't call it perfectly fine. It's still not trustworthy
| enough. You would certainly want to double check it, which in
| turn makes it rather unnecessary in the first place.
| KingMachiavelli wrote:
| I typically keep a Windows VM running for the main purpose of
| using my brokers very powerful trading desktop application.
| While it is very useful and can do all sorts of calculations &
| graphing, it is kind of slow and the UI is a little cumbersome.
| The number of clicks to add a stock to a watchlist is very
| high, etc. In comparison, it takes 1 button to add a stock to
| mop [1] and I can keep it in a 'dropdown' terminal window
| controlled by a keyboard shortcut.
|
| Unless you are a HF trader, you probably only need the stock
| price within a few minutes unless you are about to place a
| trade. (And typically all these terminal stock tickers are
| doing is scraping these sites anyway so the data is about the
| same.) Therefore, during the day I can watch stocks in the
| comfort of my terminal using mop [1] (or this if this has more
| features and is as easy to use), and if anything strikes my eye
| I can then go to my stock trading terminal and watch things
| more precisely.
|
| I also do have a custom search engine that can open any stock
| ticker to finviz.com but I'd rather not have to have yet
| another account on some random website that either has
| distracting ads and/or pushes me to pay for more features.
|
| There is a very large UX vs features trade off when it comes to
| anything stock related so it makes sense to use multiple tools.
| ezequiel-garzon wrote:
| Thank you for your post, adding the reference:
|
| [1] https://github.com/mop-tracker/mop
| malux85 wrote:
| What's the desktop application you are using? Sounds
| interesting
| binaryblitz wrote:
| If I had to guess, the Fidelity Active Trader Pro app.
|
| It's a pretty handy app, that seems to be constantly up to
| date, but it's garbage on Mac, so I setup a PC laptop next
| to my main setup so I can have it running. Still a bit
| finicky on PC, but way better.
| Operyl wrote:
| I play with fake money, in a Discord server with a bot we made
| and a few friends. Sure, I'm probably not the norm, but I find
| them useful :).
| kruxigt wrote:
| This might be the only real use case haha
| w0m wrote:
| I feel like it's an excuse to write a CLI app in your favorite
| language. I dig it; tempted to clone it in python.
| kruxigt wrote:
| Nothing wrong with that! :)
| brundolf wrote:
| This was my thought too- it seems like a really fun and clean
| and data-driven coding project, whether it's actually useful
| or not
| nine_k wrote:
| You need an account with a broker to see prices with sub-minute
| resolution. If you need that, you likely trade seriously, and
| have more serious tools from a broker or two anyway.
|
| But if all you want is to watch trends, not do HFT, being even
| 5 minutes late is fine. Even just looking at how a day went
| after hours is fine.
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