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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ykyong:
GeckoDev,

Juz few suggestions to make this even more appealing and powerful...

(1) Possibility of a "Download Now" button (as Left softkey) for each page. The current "Download Now" inside the Menu tab, can be changed and used as "Download All".

(2) Hope for Portfolio Management apps like in some advance stock manager programs. Keep track of own portfolio costs and current gain/loss.

Again, we thank you for this best invention.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] nosro:
Suggestion for future feature:

I appreciate that the D-pad can be used to move from page to page. Integrating swipe gestures (left-to-right, right-to-left) to move from page to page would make it very Diamond-esque.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
Good idea, I like the new soft key. I think I would keep Download Now, but whether it downloads all lists or just the current one would depend on a setting (which is already planned).

Yep, that's on the list. ;)

Thank you for the ideas, and for being active and helping me answer questions!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
Wow, it took 116 posts and 600 people downloading it before someone mentioned this. The rest of you should be ashamed! :D

I haven't played with gestures yet, but I've bookmarked the threads about sensor API's so I could figure it out. Adding gestures would be totally cool, but it might take while before we start to see it in this app.

I'm still surprised it took so long for this to come up ... if everyone starts rioting about having gestures now, I'm blaming you! ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] hebbe:
i know why noone came up with gestures :D

first lets make it the best stock-app ever, then deal with the luxury (like gestures)! :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] cellneuron:
Personally I don't like gesture at all. Let's deal with the program first before we add those eye candies. There are still long way to go before this program become mature. For example, enabling offline browsing and add the "exit" button. The new left softkey which is showing status now is a big waste. The status can be moved to the top, and share the line with list name.

While the keyboard bug is fixed (I appreciate it very much), the pop up keyboard is not as elegant as before.

Good job.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
I agree, more important things to do first ... like all those mysterious settings we've been talking about. I'm doing that next, maybe have an update this weekend.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] gqueipo:
Forex

First of all, you have developed a great app, congratulations!

In other subject, have you think to create a similar application for exchange rates? I think it will be a great financial complement, and more for all the people that has international transactions.

Well it is just an idea (an app that I've been looking and never found it). There are a lot of currency conversions, but any that could track in real time and display a historical graph.

Thanks!!! and if someday you decided to go for it let me know I'd like to be the first to donate and download :o
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 12345:
super application but I can't enjoy :(

my- polish index isn't able :(

I kindly please ones again is it possible to add:

http://www.bankier.pl/inwestowanie/n...a/indeksy.html ----------- WIG and WIG20 (this 2 index)

http://fundusze.wp.pl/notowania.html...6e38&_ticrsn=3 -----------POLISH FOUNDS - all off that

Polish stock is (as I now) bigest in east Europe, I don't know why not exist in yahoo......... maybe because off funny president :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] th1nm1nt:
Too lazy to read all the posts, so not sure if this has been brought up. With all the volitility lately, I've been enjoying the 1d and 5d views the best. One neat way to customize this app would be if there was a way to input a Cost Basis within a ticker. It could either be reflected within the row of the ticker itself, or reflected as a green line in the chart once entered (and overlay with the red line for the previous close). I have my cost basis almost memorized, but would be cool graphically since several of my holdings have different cost basis', and therefore, I use an average.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] faethon:
Hi GeckoDev, just updated to 0.4. This continues to be a great app, and it just gets better and better!

I've noticed that the TickerTape.dat file is binary. It stores the Tickers & Lists. One thing that might make the creation of the lists more convenient (especially when using a lot of lists) is to change from a binary file to a text file that also allows offline editing. For instance using a file format like:

[MyList]
^DJI
^AEX
FORA.AS

[MyList2]
MS
HTC
BAM.AS
^NDA

[MyList3]
ETC

which is a definition of 3 lists, with some (bogus) tickers in them. This way it makes creation of a lot of lists more convenient on the desktop, after which it can be copied to the device.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] cellneuron:
Nice tip. BTW, it is plain text, not binary.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] www.capture:
row data

This is a neat little great app.

Would it be possible to add the ability to remove the company name from a row...just the ability to show a symbol or the company name. With both the symbol and the company name, the row looks a little cluttered.

Also, since typically when updated, all tickers in a list are updated at the same time, maybe a last updated date / time at the list level and not for each row. That would make the row more eye friendly.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
The file is actually more complicated than that, but maybe there could be an import feature that merges a text file like that with the data file. Also an export feature that creates a text file you can edit, or keep as a backup of your lists. What do you think?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
That's actually the TRADE time that the quote represents, not the time it was updated. So each ticker will (potentially) have a different time from the others.

I'll think about the other suggestion ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
You can track currency exchanges in Ticker Tape using their ticker symbol. See here to find out what the symbols are. For example, you can use EURUSD=X for Euros to USD.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] th1nm1nt:
Disagree...I have over 12 lists, and the company name helps a lot.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] sycamore22:
Great apps Bro!! Very nice!! Thank you:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] kiludi:
Excellent Application. Very good development and very promising.

That is what I was looking for in Windows Mobile from a long time ago.:)

Any possibility in the future to track a portfolio (enter amount of shares, purchasing date, ...)? :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ykyong:
kiludi,

this has been answered. see post #117
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] gevak:
Thank for your sift! I like it very much!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
It probably IS because of funny president. :)

I've looked, but I wasn't able to find the Polish indices, and I don't know why that exchange isn't provided.

The links you gave are broken, can you repost them?

Also, I can't read whatever language those sites are in. If you can find some sort of data feed from them, I can probably do something about it. Links to pages that show quotes do me no good, because I'm not screen-scraping to get the data. I need something that provides their data.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
Hey everyone,

An XDA member wrote a short article about TickerTape on an Italian HTC/PocketPC blog! I thought the international fame and fortune was interesting. :)

Here's the link, and here it is translated (poorly by Google) into English.

That got me curious, so I did a quick search and found out a couple things:

(1) I'll probably need to change the name of the app at some point, because someone else already has a "TickerTape" app. The other one is for NEWS feeds though (not quotes), but anyway...

(2) It seems there are people that build sites offering the software posted here on XDA. Does anyone know what's up with this? I realize that anyone could get it from here, but whoever runs that site is generating ad income by exploiting the XDA forums, and THAT is disturbing. What a crock.

In other news, the Settings and a few other additions are underway, and I'll probably have an update this weekend. Today was a bad market day, so I hope nobody got pissed off at TickerTape and threw their Diamond in a river. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] scletan:
BRAZIL .SA

Brazil Sao Paolo, .SA, is 15minutes delay. What can i do to hav it in real time? I can pay for this service and make a donation to you.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
I have plans to integrate with Yahoo's real-time service, which is reported to cost about $10 per month. The idea is that you will be able to configure your Yahoo account information in TickerTape, and it will use that info to get the real-time quotes you have subscribed to. I'm not sure when this feature will be added.

Donations are certainly appreciated. ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] alexk1f:
Specify download times

Hi,

First all great app. I really like it.

Suggestion: Would it be possible to set a few download times? I live in Asia and I want to automatically download the US market information in the morning when I wake up.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Alex
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 12345:
try this one....

http://fundusze.wp.pl/a,3,b,1,notowania.html

thanx
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] llecaroz:
Samsung i780 (320x320) tests

Hi GeckoDev,

I just tried for fun, & certainly will donate for the next version. your app looks interresting.

Here is my feedback on my i780. The Menu is too big on the i780 screen, an horizontal scrollbar is displayed . I suppose that the vertical scrollbar is normal as I suppose that you want your app to be used also with device not having "finger ready" features. but it should be interesting in settings to be able to hide the vertical one if you add a finger ready feature. Anyway, the vertical scroll bar is displayed in the "compare to" sub menu even if all items are visible & does not need a scrollbar

for the horizontal one, there is no need on i780...

About the number of quotes being able to be displayed, only 2 quotes can be displayed without being truncated... the third quote is truncated & other are hiden under the graph.

Maybe an horizontal sizing bar or a setting containing the number of quote to display and/or the size of the graph could be useful !

but anyway, I like your pre alpha beta version !
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] mhoesch:
Great software

Just want to thank for this great software. Everything works great.

One thing would be outstanding: Using the HTC Diamond Scroll/Zoom wheel functionality for the chart (or double tab to chart makes it landscape fullscreen).

And using wipe left/right to switch between the tabs.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] fdecausans:
Nice little apps.

Acutally I really like the current 0.4 version and the fact is that it is small. Don't really need any other improvement except maybe the way it connects. I would prefer the data connection to stay on while the prog is running rather than starting/closing at every periodic update (or at least have the possibility to choose).
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] scletan:
I use www.advfn.com in Brazil and im sure that this site has usa, canada, europe, africa and asia too. i pay 11,00 usd per month to hav brazil real time. u can contact them to be a partner, thats my sugestion. i wanna hav it quick on my phone. congratulations, keep growing, u can hav much money working in this software. be quick :-)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
New Update!

Hey everyone ... Ticker Tape 0.5 is now available! See the 2nd post for changes, and the 1st post to download.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 69alfa:
Hello , i instaled version 0.5 and is fantastic to see charts as completed screen but i think if better to use all the screen to see the chart(chart must ocupied all the screen) then it was very very fantastic..

regards , and i promise to donate you four your work
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
The downloaded chart is 512 pixels high (when rotated). I didn't want to resize it to fill the whole screen, because then the chart would become distorted and hard to read.

On devices with lower resolutions, the chart will still get shrunk some to fit the screen, so in those cases it ends up filling the whole screen, but there will be some distortion due to resizing.

But on the Diamond and other VGA devices, even though it doesn't quite fill the screen, we get to see the chart actual size with no distortion. Make sense?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] anthony_kwok:
Great! The menu speed is really faster than 0.4.

Thanks! :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] benchmarkone@gmail.com:
You've designed an outstanding, professional-looking app, GeckoDev. And I can see you've spent just as much time designing the look and interface of the app as you have it's efficiency and accuracy. Excellent job.

I agree with you - it makes perfect sense to have a smaller undistorted chart than a larger distorted chart.

By the way... I don't think anyone's mentioned this yet, but you can also enter mutual fund codes and your app will track those just like a stock. For example, if you want to view the Fidelity Balanced Fund, you can do a search on Yahoo Finance to get the fund code (FBALX), and you're good to go. Note: this only seems to work for American mutual funds.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 12345:
what about that data ? usefull or not ?

M
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] EazyVG:
Great new features for 0.5 ... thumbs up.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
Not useful, sorry. It's just a web page, not a data stream. I'll do some looking around and see if I can find somewhere that provides the data. Thanks for trying though. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
Thank you, thank you, and thank you! I'm pleased to see that everyone is enjoying the update!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] johan_hi:
Hi GeckoDev,

Love the app! It works great on my Touch Pro. The design is the sweetest yet on this kind of app. Thumbs up!

I have got a little request.

I live in Norway, and I am wondering if you could get data from one of these sites:

www.netfonds.no or www.nordnet.no

Not that I am a programmer, but I think you would be able to get data from these sites. My best bet would be on Netfonds.

Contact me if you need translation or help. Would be glad to help you out.

Cheers! :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
The Oslo Exchange is on the list of exchanges that the data comes from, so you should already be able to get what you want. ;)

Try putting ".OL" at the end of the ticker symbol you want, or look up the symbol here. Let me know how it goes!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] wd-40:
Wonderful app. The design is really quite impressive. I would love to see some actual stock (buy and sell, profit and loss) tracking. Would this possibly be included in the commercial version?

BTW: The size that this app and data take up is so amazingly small. Well done.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] cellneuron:
V0.5 is nice. For the full screen chart view, why not make it a real full screen (title bar is still there which looks ugly, most importantly, the view is not that much bigger than the integrated view.) I guess a real full screen view will looks bigger.

thanks.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] lit2fly:
Price Alert

Thanks for the program, it is very professional and useful

One feature makes the program even more brilliant!

Please add the price alter function..... in which the alert can be an SMS, email, alarm....... you name it.........

Thanks!!!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] hebbe:
your app is getting better every version! my girlfriend is a stock analyst (using a bloomberg terminal), and she's also impressed by this app!

a suggestion for the look and feel for the next version maybe:

i think the ui will look a lot "smoother" if you add a padding between the first ticker (stock) and the list title (caption)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] lit2fly:
Display Time According to Time Zone

Another request: Display the "last update date/time" according to time zone the device is set to.

Define Non-Trading Hours

User can define non-trading hours (in local time) such that during the non-trading hours, the program will not update the stock data automatically.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 69alfa:
some ideas for future version.

its posible to add some stock information like this example:

Day's Range: 95.13 - 100.40

52wk Range: 85.00 - 202.96
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] wd-40:
Is there any chance to add an option to be able to view the chart information in an off-line mode? Obviously, you would be online to download data but the chart data would still be available after the device is no longer connected.

Question: what apps do you use to track your investment portfolios on a PPC? I am currently using StockManager.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] wd-40:
Good suggestion. That would be a nice addition.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] curious george:
@GeckoDev

How difficult, and would you consider undertaking, an interface like this that updates Sport Scores? Maybe something that cache's info from espn.com to were the user can get live updates of games etc like yahoo's sports tracker? The ability to pick the sporting genre and then drill down to professional or college, men or womens etc etc etc.

Curious G
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] romant:
Great application -thanks a lot. Re the landscape chart, I understand your point about not wanting to distort the chart by going from 512 pixels to 640 but I still struggle to read the chart - getting old I guess. Would it be possible to either implement zoom and scroll or send the chart to the built in picture viewer to allow that to zoom/scroll?

Also, I guess this would depend on the data source but e.g. for the currency conversions in particular it would be useful to enter a past date and get the quotes as at that point.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ycimpir:
Add Turkish Stock IMKB..

Hi GeckoDev..

Is it possible to add Indice of Turkey (calls IMKB) ?

:D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] sev7en:
Awesome tool... many thanks for sharing!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
@lit2fly: Would the last update time really be useful, since it already shows the trade time that the quote represents? Alerts and trading hours are already on the list. ;)

@69alfa: I can get that info ... the question is where to display it! Maybe the chart area could double as an area to show extended info with some sort of toggle? Hmmm. Let me ponder that for a bit.

@wd-40: It already does that! Have a look at the settings for cached charts. You can specify which chart ranges to view cached, and you can specify how old a chart needs to be before it is considered "stale" (in which case a new chart is downloaded). Note: if you kept your data file from a previous version of the app, you need to specify when to get a new chart, otherwise it will always considered to be stale.

To answer your question, I use TickerTape to track my portfolio ... of course, I have the version that lets me track the positions I hold. Just kidding. :) Soon though....

@curious george: That's an interesting idea for an app. I'll give it some thought after hibernating for the winter (it's almost below 70 here in Florida ... BRRRR!) Maybe in time for the Final Four. ;)

To everyone talking about the fullscreen chart: Just for background info, the idea was to not distort the chart by stretching it (there's a more detailed explanation a few pages back). But since a lot of you are talking about it, I could add some stuff to the full screen view to allow you some control over the zoom level and so on. Does that sound good?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] fryman:
This app is great - Thank you. How hard would it be to add this app as a page into TF3D? Or at least as a link under You Tube on the internet page. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] hebbe:
just another tip for a smoother ui:

make the lines between the menuitems just one pixel in height, and give them a light grey color :). (at the moment the line has a height of 2 pixels and is black:D)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Tazkika:
Hi Ycimpir,

the ticker ^XU100 gives you the ISE100 index, strangely the Yahoo site refuses to give info on the ticker, but when you enter it in TickerTape you get the graph. I've asked Yahoo a few times to follow this index in more detail, but no luck....

CU,

Tazkika
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] HTC_TELUS:
Nice App

Just wanted to show you my appreciation over this wonderful and simple to use app.

Only minor point is QVGA resolution on the charts is blurry *i know it was designed for VGA users* so my only request would be updated graphs.

Other than that, great app, i can follow the Stock Market downslide everywhere i am.... LOOK I'M LOOSING MONEY! =)

Keep up your good work

-long-time lurker, sometimes poster-
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
I'm not really sure how hard it is yet, I've never tried it. I have it on the list to think about, but I think there will be issues with screen real estate. I have already thought about making the app completely full screen just to claim the extra space where the taskbar is (even though I think only games should do this ... normal apps should play nice with the OS). If it plugs into TF3D, it would have even less space to work with. So I think this whole idea will stay at the bottom of the list forever. :)

You can always add it to the Programs tab in TF3D...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] GeckoDev:
You're right, it does look better, thanks! BTW, the line was only supposed to be 1px to begin with, but I found out the background fill was missing the last pixel at the bottom. That combined with the 1px top border made it look like 2px between them. Anyway, it's all taken care of now, thanks.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] cellneuron:
I support the full screen idea, at least make it an option. But please add "exit" button first, either in menu or somewhere else.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] dersbach:
Hi GeckoDev

I would also like to thank you for this great program. I regards to the yahoo feed, to my knowledge there is a free stocks application for the iphone that uses the bloomberg feed (for free). I wonder if someone can find out if this can also be used for your application. thanks and keep up the good work :-)