Stock market trader's desktop -project announcement and recruitment

[klaym]

Hello there! I'm announcing a new project, 'The stock trader's desktop'. The idea is to build a highly customizable and neat desktop for people who do trading at the stock market. The desktop would include graphical charts of specified companies' exchange rates, a calendar with events to come in the range of a specified stock market, a newsbar (CNN headlines), different sorts of mathematical analysis of specified companies value, etc. etc. All this in a neat and good looking package. The desktop would of course be created on top of some popular environment, such as Gnome or KDE.

If this sounds like a good idea, then please contact me at isometsa a,t gmail d.o.t com, or add a post here, and share your ideas and tell me how you could participate to the project. All interest and help is highly appreciated!

I have experience on C++, but I haven't worked in a Linux environment before, so I would probably be on the sketching side for now. I've worked with Photoshop for a long time, and some time with Gimp too. So maybe I'd mainly be doing graphics. But I'm very keen to learn to code on Linux, too! I will also post my visualization of the desktop later on (everybody is highly welcomed to post your own!).

There's a growing amount of traders out there running Linux. I believe that this kind of project would be greatly valued, if delivered as an easily configurable and good looking package. Please share your thoughts! Thanks!



Henri Isometsä

[UbuWu]

You could do most of the things you describe using gdesklets.

[Psquared]

I think its a great idea. gDesklets does not do it. I don't know of a gdesklet that provides charts and scrolling news from Dow Jones or another service.

One problem you will have is that unless you are hooked up through a broker-dealer you won't get real time quotes or news. Everything will be 15-20 minutes delayed. The key to an app like that would be "real time" otherwise it wouldn't be of much use.

[Lovechild]

I think he meant you could write most of that using gDesklets, it provides most of the framework you need, just hook up to a site that provides the data you need and display - can't be much work.