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Quotes</b></a></dt>
<dd>
Add ability to download stock quotes, other price quotes.
<p>Add ability to download historical prices as well.
Add ability to obtain stock, mutual fund, and currency trading
data from news agencies, web pages.
Add ability to download historical prices as well.
(<em>e.g.</em> get 5-year history of mutual fund
performance vs. djia).</p>
performance vs. djia).
<p>Right now, stock prices are stored along with everything
else, in the main database, in the transaction table.</p>
<p>This leads to several aesthetic quandries.</p>
else, in the main database, in the transaction table.
This leads to several aesthetic quandries.</p>
<ul>
<li>It bulks up the database with 'less-than critical'
information.</li>
information. That's bad. We need an alternate storage
mechanism.</li>
<li>Basically, transactions are either 'critical' vix
record the movement of money, or are non-critical viz
<li>Currently, the transactions stored in the engine
are either 'critical' <em>viz.</em>,
record the movement of money, or are non-critical <em>viz.</em>
record things retreivable from the historical record,
<em>e.g.</em> prices.</li>
<li>Shouldn't storage for prices be moved to somewhere
else?</li>
<li>Hmmm ... what about storage for valatility, shares
traded, etc?</li>
<li>Does indeed sound like an alternate storage method
would be useful.</li>
<li>What about GUI implications?</li>
<em>e.g.</em> prices.
This alone is a good reason to ask that price &amp; other
non-critical financial data be stored in a separate location.
Add to this the idea that we should probably store other
'technical' stock data, such as share volume, high/low/close,
daily volatility, etc.
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Status:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Can obtain stock quotes from Yahoo (NYSE), Fidelity
<li>Quotes.pm can obtain stock quotes from Yahoo (NYSE), Fidelity
Investments, T.Rowe Price, and do automated update of
GnuCash data files (with the <tt>gnc-price</tt> perl
script). Need to add more data sources. See <tt>
src/quotes/Quote.pm</tt> and <tt>
src/quotes/gnc-price</tt> for details.</li>
src/quotes/gnc-prices</tt> for details.</li>
<li>Quote.pm is now a separate development project at
source-forge.</li>
<li>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4232">
Quote.pm</a> is now a separate development project at
SourceForge.
</li>
<li>Need to integrate with GUI. Right now, this is a
stand-alone perl script run from <tt>crontab.</tt> This
will be done by writing scheme wrappers for the module
(???)</li>
<li>RLB has integrated with GUI, using scheme. Done in
version 1.4.0. Does this mean gnc-prices is dead, or is it
--batch ??
stand-alone perl script run from <tt>crontab.</tt> RLB
has written scheme wrappers for the module. Its ready now, but
not checked into cvs. Will be in 1.5.
</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.daveware.com/linuxrapid.html">
Xrapid</a> stock technical analysis.</li>
<li><a href="http://getquote.giammy.com/">GetQuote</a> is a
command-line toll for getting stock quotes. Implemented in C.</li>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=3522">
Accountant</a> project at sourcforge aims to create a generic
business library.</li>