A Wall St. inspired ticker display board, right on your desktop. Color coded, live prices, and percentage changes using Yahoo Finance data.
- Color coded price changes (green for gains, red for losses)
- Scrolls across the bottom of your screen
- Updates prices every 30 seconds
- Settings button to manage ticker list
- Python 3.x
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- Copy absolute file path to
main.py - Create a new shortcut on desktop
- Find Python interpreter file location
- Format as "C:\Path\To\Python\pythonw.exe" "C:\Path\To\YourScript\main.py", and save it to the shortcut
- ⊞ Win + R
- Type "shell:startup"
- Copy that shortcut or drag it into the startup folder
- To change ticker colors, edit the color_map dictionary before the class in
main.py - To change the scroll speed, locate the class StockTickerApp in
main.pyand on line 16, change the float in self.scroll_speed.