Stocks

Check stock quotes, monitor trends, analyze your portfolio.

Setup

Installing manually (Linux)

No install required or available at this point.

Usage example

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

To do

• Historical data and personal portfolio graphs (matplotlib)
• Cross-platform e-mail and desktop notifications
• Initial setup command to configure a portfolio
• Modify the way the program is used but keep the current commands optional
• Use optparser for option parsing
• Modify the way the stock data is printed, use more than one column

And more.

Options

A list of options is available via the options parameter:

python stocks.py options

Which prints a list with the following data: