Stock Market

Quoter – The Console Based Stock Quote Tool

Last Updated on March 24, 2022

In Operation

Quoter is a small command-line tool to fetch stock quotes.

By default, the program shows you the summary of the securities entered and the DOW, NASDAQ and S&P 500, and NASDAQ index data, as shown in the image below.

Quoter - indices

Let’s say we want to find out the current price for a few stocks listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange, a stock exchange based in New York which consists of around 3,500 companies. We simply need to append the stock tickers to the command quoter.

$ quoter TSLA NVDA AAPL JNJ

Quoter

We can display more detailed information using the -d option. For example, let’s see more detailed information for NVIDIA Corp (NVDA).

Quote - NVDA

There’s also a -t switch which shows a 3 month trend which includes daily high, low, and close prices.

The software lets us save specific securities as a default.

Next page: Page 3 – Summary

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Summary

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