3cham / ticker

Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

Ticker

Terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

Features

• Live stock price quotes
• Track value of your stock positions
• Support for multiple cost basis lots

Install

Download the pre-compiled binaries from the releases page and copy to a location in PATH or see quick installs below

mac

brew install achannarasappa/tap/ticker

linux

curl -Ls https://api.github.com/repos/achannarasappa/ticker/releases/latest \
| grep -wo "https.*linux-amd64*.tar.gz" \
| wget -qi - \
&& tar -xf ticker*.tar.gz \
&& chmod +x ./ticker \
&& sudo mv ticker /usr/local/bin/

Quick Start

ticker -w NET,AAPL,TSLA

Usage

Alias	Flag	Default	Description
	--config	~/.ticker.yaml	config with watchlist and positions
-i,	--interval	5	Refresh interval in seconds
-w,	--watchlist		comma separated list of symbols to watch

Configuration

Configuration is not required to watch stock price but is helpful when always watching the same stocks. Configuration can also be used to set cost basis lots which will in turn be used to show daily gain or loss on any position.

# ~/.ticker.yaml
watchlist:
  - NET
  - TEAM
  - ESTC
  - BTC-USD
lots:
  - symbol: "ABNB"
    quantity: 35.0
    unit_cost: 146.00
  - symbol: "ARKW"
    quantity: 20.0
    unit_cost: 152.25
  - symbol: "ARKW"
    quantity: 20.0
    unit_cost: 145.35

• Symbols not on the watchlist that exists in lots will automatically be watched
• watchlist and lots are both optional properties

Notes

• Quotes are pulled from Yahoo finance which, like other financial news sources, provides delayed stock quotes as opposed to real-time quotes - information in ticker is appropriate for casual use cases such as position tracking and price watching but not for active trading where up to the minute/second pricing matters