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Hi All,
My name is Nick, and I'm a 17 year old computer enthusiast from here in Australia.

Recently I sat down and looked around the ASX, which I became interested in after my dad successfully floated a new company.

After a bit of investigation and research I was able to find a way to combine these two interests of mine. So I sat down and put together a tiny piece of software, ASX Monitor, which monitors the live prices of a selected security from the E*TRADE website and Notifies you when the price has changed.

I post this program here for you to use for free, in the hope that somebody somewhere might find it useful.

To find out more information about the program, you can Click Here.

The program has also been attached to this thread, in the hope that You'll spare my website bandwidth.

Here are some screenshots of the program in action:
amon1.jpg

amon3.jpg

amon2.jpg



Legal Stuff:
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.
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Thanks for your time.
My apologies to the Administrators of the board if this thread is in the wrong location or is otherwise undesirable.

-Nick
 

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hey nick


do i need to be an etrade client? and if i load this program does it mean you can take over my computer somehow and know all my secrets??

just curious.. the program looks great but i am always weary of loading stuff i dont fully understand.. do i need to use modzilla as well?

cheers
 
Cattlyst said:
Hi All,
My name is Nick, and I'm a 17 year old computer enthusiast from here in Australia.

Recently I sat down and looked around the ASX, which I became interested in after my dad successfully floated a new company.

After a bit of investigation and research I was able to find a way to combine these two interests of mine. So I sat down and put together a tiny piece of software, ASX Monitor, which monitors the live prices of a selected security from the E*TRADE website and Notifies you when the price has changed.

I post this program here for you to use for free, in the hope that somebody somewhere might find it useful.

To find out more information about the program, you can Click Here.

The program has also been attached to this thread, in the hope that You'll spare my website bandwidth.

Here are some screenshots of the program in action:
amon1.jpg

amon3.jpg

amon2.jpg



Legal Stuff:


Thanks for your time.
My apologies to the Administrators of the board if this thread is in the wrong location or is otherwise undesirable.

-Nick
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Thanks Nick ....This will be very handy, nice of you to make it available to other users .


Royce
 
Currently the monitor only supports a single stock, but it shouldn't be too difficult to implement a multiple stock system. Will reply shortly.
 
ASX Monitor now has support for up to 15 stocks/securities. The latest version is attached.

As always, further details can be found here: ASX Monitor

amon4.jpg
 

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Oops. I've jumped the gun and released before I did all the proper tests. The version previously posted will not check the 15th stock. The new and updated version will.

To the administrators: Would it be possible to update the two previous attachments to the one contained in this post. Thanks.

-Nick
 

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Cattlyst said:
Hi All,
My name is Nick, and I'm a 17 year old computer enthusiast from here in Australia.
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Hi Nick,

I hate to ruin your thread, and admire what you have done, but I'm using something that gets all the asx/ and worlds stock exchange data (inc indexes) every few mins and displays them on your desktop...

I hope this helps you from spending to much more time enhancing your product....

Anyway here all the info, and what more once you add the engine(base program) , then you can add 1000's of other widgets (components) like the weather in radar (accurate) and I also have trafic on Melbourne's freeways, not that I leave the office much during trading hours anymore.

Windows Or Mac Engine. (Required)
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
(worth noting base engine installs clocks'n'stuff I didn't want, so you can just delete then and install what you want.

Stock Ticker (optional)
http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=38246

Australian Radar (most reliable One, and select any states and most towns)
http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=38972

Mebourne Freeways (optional)
http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=38029

Sorry again to spoil your party ...

Cheers'
SevenFX
 

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Cattylst

Excellent .

Now a little challenge.
Could you make it that it alerts you of a stock price when its reached.

EG you code in BHP with $x value that if hit it is displayed.
Id find that handy to keep an eye in the background on a watch list.
IE you know that if a stock reaches X then it has broken out,the alter is then placed on your desktop when it happens.

Very clever Cattylst,Us oldies just admire your expertise.
Well done.
 
Hey Nick,

The last 2 posters have made some damm good points, and if your could do that, that would be excellent, and I'd be dumping my yahoo widgets...4 sure :D

I agree the live data would be valuable, and to set of a audioable alert would be awsome....

Thanks
SevenFX
 
captain black said:
Be aware that Yahoo data is normally 20 minute delayed.
I think Nick quoted on his blog that the ASX monitor has live data from ETrade.
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yes his blog says, "prices which are not delayed".

Good stuff Nick.
 
Yes the prices are taken live from E*TRADE :)

@ tech/a:
Well there is nothing difficult about doing that, save for the fact I would have to redesign the options screen interface to accommodate alert values for each stock.

In fact what you could have is a Low Price alert and a High Price alert and receive a notification when either is hit.

Sound alerts are also possible, I think, I'd have to look into it :p:
 
Cattlyst,

Just wanted to say thanks for this, fantastic!

All the programs I have seen to do a similar thing gets the data from free sites such as Yahoo. They are all 20mins delayed.

If you don't mind further suggestions, I'm sure I could think of some!

Is it possible to have the stocks rather than pop-up individually, pop-up in the one window?

Cheers SB
 
also Catalyst, can we save the stocks we want? every time I close it down and open it again it comes up with the default stocks.

cheers
 
juddy said:
also Catalyst, can we save the stocks we want? every time I close it down and open it again it comes up with the default stocks.
cheers
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Also, save any of the options. eg: Check for updates every 1min. :)

Thanks, SB
 

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