afjcjsbx / stockbar

A menu bar app to track stock prices, currency exchange rates, and cryptocurrency prices.

StockBar

About

A menu bar app that tracks changes of stock prices, currency exchange rates, and cryptocurrency prices every minute. The menu bar item displays the daily position changes if the unit size is provided in the settings. Otherwise, the per unit daily changes is displayed.

Click on the symbol name to show details such as the price, the change percentage, the last updated time stamp, and the position information.

Some symbol examples are listed below. Please refer to https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup/ for more.

Indices:

• ^GSPC : S&P 500
• ^N225 : Nikkei 225

ETF:

• IVE : iShares S&P 500 Value ETF

Stock:

• AAPL : Apple Inc
• GOOG : Alphabet Inc Class C
• NFLX : Netflix Inc
• 9626.HK : Bilibili Inc
• 600519.SS : Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd

Currency Exange:

• USDJPY=X : 1 US dollar equals to X Japanese yen
• USDCAD=X : 1 US dollar equals to X Canadian dollar
• EURCNY=X : 1 Euro equals to X Chinese yuan(RMB)

Cryptocurrencies:

• BTC-USD : 1 Bitcoin equals to X US dollar
• DOGE-USD : 1 Dogecoin equals to X US dollar

Preference

Provide the stock symbols to track in preference view. If unit sizes and average position costs are supplied, the open profit and loss will also be tracked. Click StockBar in the menu bar and select Preference. You may need to update the unit size and the average position cost after stock splits.

API

• In use: yahoo finance api. Reference.
• Other apis:
  1. alphavantage. Free API key is available (By the time of writing, any string can be a valid free API key). However, the free API can only send five requests per minute. It only has end-of-day Nasdaq quotes.