ticker – terminal stock ticker

In Operation

Here’s an image of ticker in action. We’re watching a few indices (FTSE 100, FTSE 250, S&P 500, and the Hang Seng), as well as a few individual stocks by issuing the command:

$ ticker -w ^FTSE,^FTMC,^GSPC,^HSI,AZN,VOD,EZJ.L

The stock price quotes are retrieved via Yahoo finance, so many quotes are not real-time.

More functionality is available if you use a config file (it’s in YAML format, a human-readable data-serialization language).

For each stock, we can display the opening price, the high, the low, and volume. There’s also support for pre and post market price quotes.

We can also define our holdings, and show the total gain and loss for positions. It’s handy there’s the ability to sort stocks, as well as group them into holdings.

ticker supports converting from the exchange’s currency to a local currency.

Here’s an image showing all the available options.

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