https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker

With ticker you can track stocks, crypto, and derivatives prices and positions in real time without leaving your terminal

The latest v5 release introduces functional and performance enhancements with a rewrite of many of the core components. Some of the enhancements include:

• Streaming price updates for supported exchanges (e.g. Coinbase)

• Price change animation

• Debug mode with error logging

• Derivatives support

• Design improvements (data source extensibility, decoupling currency conversion, streaming and polling data source support)

These enhancements build on the existing features:

• Live price tracking for stocks, crypto, and derivatives

• Real time profit and loss tracking for positions and portfolios

• Support for multiple portfolios

• Support for tracking multiple cost basis lots

• Customizable display options (color scheme, sorting, additional data)

• Currency conversion for prices, positions, and portfolio

• Output positions and watchlist as CSV, JSON, and pipe into other commands

So I was wondering what makes the Bloomberg terminal worth $20k, what can you do with it that you can’t find online. Basically I’m asking why is it $20k? I have access to it as a finance student and as amazing as it is to have information on any company at the tip of your fingers, I don’t see how it’s worth $20k as all the information I find on it can be found by doing some searching.

Hey!

I’ve been working on a terminal app for people like me who want to monitor stock prices, market news, and historical data — without needing a web browser or GUI app.

It's called stocksTUI — a cross-platform Terminal User Interface (TUI) built with Textual and powered by yfinance. If you're into finance, data, or just like cool terminal tools, you might enjoy it.

What it does:

• Real-time-ish* stock and crypto prices

• Latest news headlines for each ticker

• Historical performance with ASCII charts

• Custom watchlists (tech, indices, whatever you want)

• Theming support (Solarized, Dracula, and more)

• Fully configurable (refresh rate, default tab, etc.)

* Data comes from free APIs, so expect minor delays — but good enough for casual monitoring or tinkering.

Why I built it:

I like keeping my terminal open while I work, and tabbing to a browser to check the market felt clunky. So I built something I could run alongside btop, vim, and other tools — no mouse needed.

Works on:

• Linux

• macOS

• Windows (via WSL2 or PowerShell)

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/andriy-git/stocksTUI
Contributions, feedback, and feature requests welcome!

Ticker is a stock watcher and position tracker for your terminal that updates live

https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker

FAQ:

• Supported symbols - The data is sourced from Yahoo finance so any symbol supported there is supported by ticker. This include symbols from non-US exchanges and cryptocurrencies.

• Price latency - The source Yahoo API returns real-time data for most major US exchanges however other exchanges might have a delay

• Non-regular trading sessions - Pre and post market pricing are support

• Support operating systems - Linux, Mac, and Windows are supported

Hey folks! I've been building an open source project called stocksTUI, and I’d love to share it with the community.

It’s a terminal UI that lets you track stock prices, crypto, news, and historical performance, right from your terminal window. It’s built with Textual and uses open APIs like yfinance for data.

Why it exists: I wanted a fast, minimal, mouse-free way to monitor the market while working — and I figured others might want the same. This project started small, but it's grown into something useful, customizable, and pretty slick looking.

Highlights: 📈 Real-time stock & crypto prices

🗞 News headlines for any ticker

📉 Historical data with ASCII charts

🎨 Theming and config support

🧪 Modular design, easy to extend

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/andriy-git/stocksTUI

It's licensed under GPLv3. Contributions, issue reports, and suggestions are very welcome — especially if you enjoy TUIs, financial tooling, or open source interfaces.

Thanks for checking it out!

Many of you may recognize this project from a post I made on this subreddit a few weeks ago - but the then project (a weekend throw-together script) has evolved into a much more serious program.

cliStocksTracker includes many features it didn't before - including custom color selection, command line argument configuration, a more detailed view of your portfolio, and more! Best of all - it's been refactored (twice already!) to make it as friendly for new (and relatively unexperienced) developers to start contributing.

Check out this screenshot, featuring two tickers on the same axis - as well as that upgraded table view!

Interested in checking it out (or even better, contributing)? Check out the project on Github:https://github.com/ConradSelig/cliStocksTracker

Hope you enjoy! ~C

If so, which one should I consider to use?

I've been looking for a "one stop" platform to use for researching, alerts, charts etc. - comparable to the good old Bloomberg Terminal where it's "everything in one place" - but I'm way out of that "league" in terms of cost.

Until now, I've been trying out TradingView, Unusual Whales, Bloomberg, my broker also shows some of the info but it's on a "meh" level

Right now, I've been trying out Benzinga Pro and it looks really nice but it's fairly costly if you want the full range of benefits. But! One main drawback I find, is that it seems that a LOT of the articles are just AI - many of the have the same kind of phrasing and it seems that some of it is more aimed at getting retail to become bag holders than actual, solid advice on investing. Especially the analyst price targets - but that's maybe due to having seen ridiculously low price targets for GME for 3 years that have NO place in reality haha

I don't want "get rich quick"-clickbaity stuff and I need it to cover both stocks, ETFs, options and futures.

Can I ask a ) if you have a suggestion as to what platform would be something for me to look at and b ) what you guys are using for researching trades ?