Check stock quotes, monitor trends, analyze your portfolio.
No install required or available at this point.
To get some data for AAPL (Apple Inc.), you could enter the following command:
$ python stocks.py aapl sl1p2mwt8
On March 20 2012 this command returned:
Symbol: AAPL
Last trade: 605.96
Change: +0.81%
Day's range: 582.00 - 606.90
52-week range: 310.50 - 601.77
52-week target estimate: 627.04
After the filename you have to enter the stock symbol or symbols and then the options. If there is more than one symbol, they have to be separated by "+" signs (see the example below). The "s" in sl1p2mwt8 stands for symbol. The "l1" stands for last trade. For a full list of options, see the Options section. Another example, now with two symbols, AAPL and MSFT (Microsoft Corporation):
$ python stocks.py aapl+msft sl1p2mwt8
On March 20 2012 this command returned:
Symbol: AAPL
Last trade: 605.96
Change: +0.81%
Day's range: 582.00 - 606.90
52-week range: 310.50 - 601.77
52-week target estimate: 627.04
Symbol: MSFT
Last trade: 31.99
Change: -0.65%
Day's range: 31.74 - 32.15
52-week range: 23.65 - 32.95
52-week target estimate: 33.23
And more.
A list of options is available via the options
parameter:
python stocks.py options
Which prints a list with the following data: