Stock Ticker
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- nosaj
I need to put a stock ticker on a site. Any one have any links or suggestions as to how to do this?
- 7ONE80
There are companies that offer a "real time" stock ticker or at least 15 min delay but you (your client) has to pay a monthly maintenace fee. (Go on the financial sites and see who provides the graphs, tickers etc., they are the companies you should research)
MSN.com also has a free ticker but its offcourse doing advertisment for MSN.
Or you can get a programmer nerd to hack into yahoo or msn finance to get the stock info and set a ticker up but I don't recommend this, your client can get in trouble.
Finally, I advise you to figure out who the audience of the site is and if its worth having a stock ticker.
- nosaj0
Thanks for the tips 7ONE8.
- ********0
Yahoo finance has csv data to download on there somewhere... I used php to strip out the bits i didn't want.
Other than that I use (UK) Hemscott and HUGIN. But they will give you eveything and charge you about £1600.
- nosaj0
This has ended up being so much more difficult then I had origionally thought it would be. All I need is a little script that will generate the price for one company, similar to this site http://www.merck.com/ (right under the News). Any other suggestions as to how we can get this to work?