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Add Initial Support for a Stock Ticker

Open mggates39 opened this issue 1 year ago • 19 comments

Description

This begins to addresses Issue 341

  • Uses the FinHub API https://finnhub.io/docs/api/introduction.
  • Needs a free API Key stored in your secrets.h file. It can be an empty string.
  • Accepts a comma separated list of stock symbols, any exchange.
  • Shows the data for each stock one at a time for 30 seconds.
  • Shows Current Price color coded for direction of change Red, Green, White.
  • Alternates the daily high and low prices and the opening and closing prices.

Additional Work Pending

  • Scrolling of more than one symbol. Now it just switches between symbols every 30 seconds.
  • Add additional data: the amount and percentage of change, Market Cap, and number of outstanding shares.
  • Any other suggested features

Contributing requirements

  • [x] I read the contribution guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • [x] I understand the BlinkenPerBit metric, and maximized it in this PR.
  • [x] I selected main as the target branch.
  • [x] All code herein is subjected to the license terms in COPYING.txt.

mggates39 avatar Dec 10 '23 02:12 mggates39