Here's a simple Tcl script which will fire up a window to track a small portfolio of stocks. Nothing too fancy. I've included an example portfolio of three stocks, and a cash holding. To see your own portfolio, simply edit the 'shares' array, and the 'cash' variable.
#!/bin/sh # # Portfolio tracking by Vince Darley # # This file may be freely modified, sold, changed, etc. # If you do make useful changes, I would like a copy, # although you aren't obligated to send me anything. # # Ideas for future improvements: auto-update every N minutes, # graphs of total portfolio value over time, # ability to record changes in portfolio over time... # #\ exec wish "$0" package require http namespace eval portfolio {} set shares(AAPL) 550 set shares(ORCL) 100 set shares(INKT) 100 set cash 3285.74 ## # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # "portfolio::getInformation" -- # # Takes a list of symbols, from Nasdaq, NYSE or even mutual funds etc., # and returns a list of results, one for each symbol given. # Each returned result is a string containing comma separated values, # in the order: # # symbol, price, date, ... # # We use a quote server from yahoo. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## proc portfolio::getInformation {symbols} { set query "http://quote.yahoo.com" append query "/d/quotes.csv?s=[join $symbols +]&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv" set token [http::geturl $query] set actual {} foreach res [split [string trim [http::data $token]] "\r\n"] { if {$res != ""} { set res [split $res ,] lappend actual [lreplace $res 0 0 [string trim [lindex $res 0] {{}""}]] } } return $actual } proc portfolio::dumpData {data} { foreach result $data { set items [split $result ","] puts stdout $items } } proc portfolio::createWindow {portfolio} { foreach {s q} $portfolio { set w [symbolToWin $s] label ${w}symb -text $s label ${w}price -text "" label ${w}change -text "" label ${w}quantity -text $q label ${w}value -text "" grid ${w}symb ${w}price ${w}change ${w}quantity ${w}value } button .update -text "Update" -command portfolio::updateAll label .total -text "" grid .update .total wm title . "Portfolio" wm withdraw . portfolio::updateAll wm deiconify . } proc portfolio::symbolToWin {symbol} { return ".[join [string tolower $symbol]]" } proc portfolio::updateWindow {data} { global cash if {[info exists cash]} { set total $cash } else { set total 0.0 } foreach items $data { set w [symbolToWin [lindex $items 0]] set price [lindex $items 1] set change [lindex $items 4] ${w}price configure -text $price ${w}change configure -text $change set val [expr {[${w}quantity cget -text] * $price}] ${w}value configure -text $val set total [expr {$total + $val}] } .total configure -text $total } proc portfolio::updateAll {} { global shares updateWindow [getInformation [array names shares]] } portfolio::createWindow [array get shares]
Also see http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkstkw