Stock Quotes

[mike_w]

I was bored today and started playing around with some finance related perl modules and GD. I made this, give it a try -

http://www.trickortreat.org/stocks/

[dank]

That's pretty darn cool, especially for a day's work!

Dan

[Tom]

What did you use for your quote feed?

[mike_w]

The feed part was the easiest, I'm just grabbing it from Yahoo with the following module -

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/da...ahooQuote.html

Obviously, not suitable for a commercial site.

The other modules used are -

Symbol Lookups -
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/da...bolLookup.html

Historical Quote Data -
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/da...QuoteHist.html

GD graphing -
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/da...aph/Graph.html

There are alot of module dependencies, especially for Finance::QuoteHist
 and the gd stuff. I have aquired a rather large collection of modules installed under my home directory since FQ doesn't have them.

[Tom]

OIC. I was just curious - nifty idea and clever way to implement it.  Be careful about legalities and disclaimers should you decide to make it publicly available.

The exchanges have started getting really picky about who serves quotes.  In the past month or so, Dow Jones has decided that you have to be "approved" to provide any of their indexes, such as the Dow Jones Industrials - a lot like it's a copyright issue.  The Chicago Board of Options Exchange and the Toronto exchange just started demanding that all quote services that have their quotes get an approval letter.  May day job is in this arena...

Regards,
 Tom