Watchlist Cinnamon applet retrieves and displays stock quotes and indexes from Yahoo! Finance and Google Finance.
Quotes may be delayed by 15 minutes.
Watchlist is tested on Cinnamon 3.0.6.
Click a stock/index to open charts in the browser.
To setup a watchlist/portfolio, type symbols and positions in the following format
Symbol1,#Shares1;Symbol2,#Shares2;Symbol3;Symbol4...
in the settings. For example, VTI,10;VEU,0;MUB,5;JNK;GLD means the portfolio formed by 10 shares of VTI, 0 share of VEU, and 5 shares of MUB as well as JNK and GLD included in the list.
All positions must be priced in the same currency to obtain the correct value in the portfolio.
Select the following indexes in cinnamon-settings to display in the drop-down list:
- S&P 500 Index
- Dow Jones Industrial Average (available only with Google Finance)
- Nasdaq Composite
- CBOE Volatility Index
- CBOE Interest Rate 10 Year T-Note
Copy the folder watchlist@yjwu to $HOME/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/ and enable Watchlist in cinnamon-settings applets.