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smtm --- A global stock ticker for X11 and Windoze
1. Introduction
smtm, which is a not overly clever acronym for Show Me The Money, is a
financial ticker and portfolio application for quotes from exchanges
around the world (provided they are carried on Yahoo!). It creates and
automatically updates a window with quotes from Yahoo! Finance. It can
also display the entire variety of charts available at Yahoo! Finance.
When called with one or several symbols, it displays these selected
stocks. When smtm is called without arguments, it reads the symbols
tickers from a file, by default ~/.smtmrc. This file can be created
explicitly by calling the Save option from the File menu. Beyond stocks,
smtm can also display currencies (from the Philadephia exchange), US
mutual funds, options on US stocks, several precious metals and quite
possibly more; see the Yahoo! Finance website for full information.
2. How to get started
Built using Perl/Tk it requires at least the following modules
Date::Manip
Finance::YahooQuote
LWP::UserAgent
MIME::Base64
HTML::Parser
Tk
Tk::PNG
all of which are readily available for most Unix variants, Linux
distributions and the ActiveState Perl implementation common on win*.
Debian users just say 'apt-get install smtm'.
For others, and following Perl convention, the installation should work as
perl Makefile.PL # optionally "perl Makefile.PL verbose"
make
make test # the tests are somewhat limited
make install
but I do not test this regularly as I install the Debian packages myself.
3. How to use it
'smtm --help' gives a brief synopis, 'perldoc smtm' shows the full manual
page. Several options are available and can be set from both a resource
file ~/.smtmrc, the command-line and the menus once smtm is running.
Additional resource files, e.g. for additional portfolios, are available
in the examples/ directory of the source distribution.
But the simplest case is possibly to just supply ticker symbols on the
command-line: 'smtm DELL IBM MSFT'.
4. Disclaimer (taken straight from the GPL)
NO WARRANTY
11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
In short: if it breaks, you can keep the pieces. This is Free Software,
use it as you see fit, but don't come running or screaming if it doesn't
work as intended.
5. Copyright
Copyright (C) 1999 - 2005 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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