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.\" Manpage for stock

.\" Contact mchirico@users.sourceforge.com to correct errors or omissions.

.TH STOCK(1) "29 June 2006" "1.0" "stock man page"

.SH NAME

stock \- Obtain stock prices from finance.yahoo.com

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B stock [-v] [-h] [-H mmddyyyy] [-s] [-i] | [ticker symbol | [, ticker symbol] ]

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.B stock 

command writes to standard output the current stock price for the 

ticker or tickers given.





.B stock

shows the current stock price,date

and time, change price, open price, high price, low price and volume.





.B stock rhat

.RS

"RHAT",29.01,"3/3/2006","4:00pm",+0.76,28.10,29.28,28.00,3339778 

.RE



.SH COMMON INDEXES

.B ^DJI 

(Dow)



.B ^IXIC 

(Nasdaq)

 

.B ^GSPC 

(S&P 500)

 

.B ^TNX

(10-Year Treasury Note)



.B ^IRX 

(13-Week Treasury Bill)



.B ^TYX 

(30-Year Treasury Bond)



.B ^FVX 

(5-Year Treasury Note)



The following show how to use the above options:



.B stock '^DJI,^IXIC,^GSPC,^TNX,RHAT'



See http://finance.yahoo.com for more information on symbols



.SH OPTIONS

.B -v 

version



.B -s

sectors



.B -i

industries



.B -H [ mmddyyyy ], --history [ mmddyyyy]

history

.RS

This gives the history of the stock going back to mmddyyyy where mm is equal to the month, 

dd is the day and yyyy is the year. So the following would give the stock of Red Hat

going back to 2000.



.B stock rhat -H 01012000



   ...

   5-Jan-00,218.50,258.00,212.00,256.00,4664000,128.00

   4-Jan-00,228.00,229.00,215.00,215.00,1235600,107.50

   3-Jan-00,228.25,231.63,211.00,231.50,1620000,115.75



Use the date command along with this option. For example, to get the

last 100 days of a stock, you could use the following.



.B stock rhat -H `date -d '-100 day' '+%m%d%Y'`





.RE



.SH SCRIPTS

The scripts folder contains Perl programs for

viewing industry and sector data.



.B industry_rank.pl

daily ascending stock prices by industry



.SH BUGS

No known bugs at this time.

.SH AUTHOR

Mike Chirico (mchirico@users.sourceforge.net)

.RS

http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/chirico/index.php

.RE

.SH SOURCE

 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116073

.SH SVN (Subversion)

The SVN can be found in the stockroach project. 

  svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stockroach stockroach

.SH REFERENCES

The following is an excellent, maybe the best, reference for learning how to

trade in stocks.



 "How to Trade in Stocks in Stocks: the Livermore Formula for Combining  Time Element and Price". 

By Jesse L. Livermore. Copyright (c) 1940. ISBN: 0-934380-20-1