Check stock quotes, monitor trends, analyze your portfolio.

No install required or available at this point.

To get some data for AAPL (Apple Inc.), you could enter the following command:

$ python stocks.py aapl sl1p2mwt8

On March 20 2012 this command returned:

                 Symbol: AAPL
             Last trade: 605.96
                 Change: +0.81%
            Day's range: 582.00 - 606.90
          52-week range: 310.50 - 601.77
52-week target estimate: 627.04

After the filename you have to enter the stock symbol or symbols and then the options. If there is more than one symbol, they have to be separated by "+" signs (see the example below). The "s" in sl1p2mwt8 stands for symbol. The "l1" stands for last trade. For a full list of options, see the Options section. Another example, now with two symbols, AAPL and MSFT (Microsoft Corporation):

$ python stocks.py aapl+msft sl1p2mwt8

On March 20 2012 this command returned:

                 Symbol: AAPL
             Last trade: 605.96
                 Change: +0.81%
            Day's range: 582.00 - 606.90
          52-week range: 310.50 - 601.77
52-week target estimate: 627.04

                 Symbol: MSFT
             Last trade: 31.99
                 Change: -0.65%
            Day's range: 31.74 - 32.15
          52-week range: 23.65 - 32.95
52-week target estimate: 33.23

• Historical data and personal portfolio graphs (matplotlib)
• Cross-platform e-mail and desktop notifications
• Initial setup command to configure a portfolio
• Modify the way the program is used but keep the current commands optional
• Use optparser for option parsing
• Modify the way the stock data is printed, use more than one column

And more.

A list of options is available via the options parameter:

python stocks.py options

Which prints a list with the following data: