Stock Trading, yay !
On stock trading
Stock trading is fun.. well, when you make money of course. There are days when you wish you didn’t buy that crappy stock, today it’s intel.
They released apparently bad numbers yesterday and took the plunge:
Uh oh !
Invest Applet
This leads me to the introduction of Invest, a replacement/companion for gtik, the stock ticker currently in gnome applets.
It allows one to create a portfolio, and track its progress in terms of gain/losses.
It also features a yahoo graph viewer, with the options found on their website, very nerdy !
Screenshots
The panel applet, with the overview dropdown
The Yahoo! chart viewer, with 1337 options
The portfolio editor, note the particularly bad taste of mine..
Code
This is the first release, nothing official yet, but i know there are people who like these things.
I have discussed with Christopher Aillon and he gave me really nice ideas for future developpment.
Maybe this can be integrated in gnome 2.16, if I receive positive feedback 
Download the invest-applet-0.1.0.tar.gz tarball !
Contribute !
I welcome any patch/comment/suggestions. The future applet will have a color indicator instead of numbers in the pane, to take les space and be less anti-private, in case someone is looking over your shoulder. Further improvements also include gconf usage and maybe general applet polishing.
January 18th, 2006 at 20:20
Hey Guy, you’re great. I’m not involved in that stock-stuff, but this applet seems to be motivating to do so
January 18th, 2006 at 21:21
Nice idea! I just got into that (finance) a few days ago, but into mutual funds, not stocks. I don’t know if the support for mutual funds would be any different (probably). It sure would be a nice addition anyway
Great work
January 18th, 2006 at 21:21
Happy to see the adoption of the tango style among the developer crowd. Yay!
January 19th, 2006 at 1:01
Récolter le fruit de son travail, c’est juste. Récolter le fruit du travail des autres, ça ne l’est pas. Tu pourrais peut-être employer ton énergie à autre chose que l’amélioration d’un outil à répandre la merde, non ?
Et si tu veux vraiment faire un bon placement, fais un don à la FSF…
(feel free to translate…)
January 19th, 2006 at 9:09
Hey! Great work with this new tool!
January 19th, 2006 at 11:11
Salut kiki, comment ça va depuis cette nuit ?
Bon bin je peux déjà te faire une remarque “commission” ça prend 2 “m” :-p
@+
January 19th, 2006 at 21:21
Hi,
This is great work, and I encourage you to continue it. I only wish I had time to help code. I can, however, help test, since I have to work with stocks on a daily basis anyway. I am not sure that it needs to be part of the gnome core, since I don’t know what percentage of users will use it, but I do encourage you to work and release a final version.
Personally I use Fedora Core 4 (and FC5T1), and would be more than happy to test if there is an installable RPM. This is something that would be great in fedora-extras.
— noah
January 19th, 2006 at 21:21
One more thing,
graphs and quotes could be grabbed from several places. For example, clearstation.com has very good graphs, while some other places have quotes for more funds.
January 20th, 2006 at 14:14
Salut,
pas mal du tout, continues.
Cela marche aussi avec yahoo France et sur les sites des différentes places boursières européennes ?
Pourquoi ne pas calculer la valeur du portefeuille aussi avec en plus différentes factures de frais sur le portfoliio, (frais bancaire pour la garde des titres, …)
March 1st, 2006 at 7:07
great applet, but it seems the make install didn’t get it to show up in the applets list. Any idea on how I can get it to show up so I can add the applet into the panel?
March 9th, 2006 at 23:23
Interesting…what made you think of this?
April 26th, 2006 at 13:13
The file ‘Invest_Applet.server’ has to be in the right directory, (/usr/lib/bonobo/servers/ for Ubuntu Dapper). Mine ended up in /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers. A quick workaround is simply to move the file and the applet shows up in the applet chooser.
Anyway, great applet!
May 9th, 2006 at 16:16
I have just started stock trading in Singapore. Wish us success in snatching our wealth in our stock market!
My blog is at http://stock-wealth.blogspot.com. Hope to C U there!
June 2nd, 2006 at 15:15
Very cool applet - I use FC5, would love to see this end up in Extras or something, if not in GNOME itself..
October 20th, 2006 at 10:10
I have just installed Edgy - and found the Invest Applet. Very nice piece of work. However, I haven’t got the “Total”-line in my applet - and just right of the invest-icon is either nothing or a coloured field as in the screenshot: http://raphael.slinckx.net/images/invest-applet-1.png
October 30th, 2006 at 22:22
I am seeing the same colored field (instead of the total) as 2hansen… (Ubuntu 6.10)
December 26th, 2006 at 18:18
Hmmm. Kinda cool but does not support currency rates as in the following string: USDCAD=X
This was the behaviour in stock ticker.
Would be nice to have it back unless I’m missing something.
salut!
December 31st, 2006 at 23:23
Is it possible that Invest will someday have ticker functionality?
I just want to see a scrolling list of some basics, like the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ, etc. Maybe a few individual stocks. Or maybe not. I don’t care about a specific portfolio, I just want to see prices.
Maybe that’s already supported. Is there any kind of documentation? I’ve been able to figure out how to change things in the portfolio editor, but it doesn’t seem to have any effect. The drop down on the panel doesn’t drop down, all that happens is that the arrow changes size briefly.
What am I missing?
January 21st, 2007 at 8:08
Wish I could use it. Using Edgy. Added to panel from aplets. Won’t open, can’t remove with right click. Help
January 24th, 2007 at 13:13
Hi,
Thanks for the app. A minor feature request:
Could you add support for a third decimal place? eg. $0.085
cheers,
Toby
February 14th, 2007 at 1:01
Hi,
Is there any way to show graphs from the german financial yahoo web page. Basically I can see the stock price and the daily change, but cannot open the graph as the address is pointing to a wrong place.
How can I edit this and change the address? Is there anyway to save the setting when viewing graphs? GOTTA SAY GREAT APPLET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 18th, 2007 at 10:10
Nice applet! Is there a possibility to add support for other stock exchanges than american ones?
April 20th, 2007 at 20:20
I have just started using Invest today, and I like the expanded offerings that you have put in. There are some things that I think will take some time to get used to. I am a big investor as well as a developer, and I’m thinking about contributing to the project. I will check out the project website shortly.
Thanks
David
June 1st, 2007 at 16:16
Hi, thanks so much for creating this, works wonderful on ubuntu. I just wondered is there a way how to change the defualt view for the graph? I have to change it all the time, the different indicators.
Love
Pavel
July 16th, 2007 at 19:19
[quote comment="8390"]Is it possible that Invest will someday have ticker functionality?
I just want to see a scrolling list of some basics, like the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ, etc. Maybe a few individual stocks. Or maybe not. I don’t care about a specific portfolio, I just want to see prices.[/quote]
Exactly!
I just upgraded and now I’ve lost gtik and have no more scrolling ticker.
I like the graphs, but really miss my ticker!
sdb
August 15th, 2007 at 19:19
Hey, what about proxy support?!?
November 7th, 2007 at 5:05
Cool work. Nice tool , Can a I get a lookalike program for windows?
December 3rd, 2007 at 22:22
I love the applet, but I would like to know what the different colors mean. (red and green are obvious).
April 16th, 2008 at 16:16
Hey, it seems that if i enter an “amount” in fedora 8, I get a blank popup window from the applet. If I leave the amounts as all zeros, I see the current value and percent change.
One feature that I think would be nice, would be an option to specify the minimum percent change to show a colour change. Say if a stock hasn’t changed by more than .05%, the entry is shown as black, otherwise it is shown as green or red.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:04
Hi,
This applet is great
I’d like to request a feature…
I use Sharebuilder as my broker, and they allow me to buy fractional shares of stocks. For example, I own .54 shares of Google.
When entering my stocks into Invest, i discovered that it will only accept whole numbers.
Not a big deal, but it would be a nice if it allowed fractions of shares…
Thanks!
June 27th, 2008 at 0:00
I always find myself searching the web for sights with stock market news and free charts but I can’t find one simple site that gives all the info I want on one page so I can quickly see an over view of the market as well as news and stock charts, so I’m building a new web site for this purpose, I’ve just started working on this site so any advice would be approached.
One trading site built by traders for traders, Market News, Free Charts, and useful stock Gadgets:
http://www.allstockcharts.com
August 18th, 2008 at 4:04
Great app! But for some reason I don’t get the Total line
October 2nd, 2008 at 20:20
Here is what we call abrilliant idea of investing aplet.