mop: track stocks the hacker way

A command-line utility that displays current information on select markets and individual stocks.

Installing mop from source

Ensure GO language is installed. Download from: https://go.dev/dl/ and the $GOPATH is set then:

git clone https://github.com/mop-tracker/mop
cd mop
go build ./cmd/mop
./mop

Using mop

By default, mop refreshes quotes and market data on a 5 minute (600s) interval. These values can be changed in the .moprc file.

For demonstration purposes mop comes preconfigured with a number of stock tickers. You can easily change the default list by using the following keyboard commands:

   +                  Add stocks to list
   -                  Remove stocks from list
   ? h H              Display this help screen
   f                  Set filtering expression
   F                  Unset filtering expression
   g G                Group stocks by advancing/declining issues
   o                  Change column sort order
   p P                Pause market data and stock updates
   t                  Toggle timestamp on/off
   Mouse Scroll       Scroll up/down
   PgUp/PgDn          Scroll up/down
   Up/Down arrows     Scroll up
   j J                Scroll up
   k K                Scroll down
   q esc              Quit mop

When prompted please enter comma-delimited list of stock tickers.

The list and other settings are stored in the profile file (default: .moprc in your $HOME directory).

No Timestamp

With Timestamp

Expression-based Filtering

Mop has an in realtime expression-based filtering engine that is very easy to use.

At the main screen, press f and a prompt will appear. Write an expression that uses the stock properties.

Example:

last <= 5

This expression will make Mop show only the stocks whose last values are less than $5.

The available properties are: last, change, changePercent, open, low, high, low52, high52, volume, avgVolume, pe, peX, dividend, yield, mktCap, mktCapX and advancing.

The expression must return a boolean value, otherwise it will fail.

For detailed information about the syntax, please refer to Knetic/govaluate#what-operators-and-types-does-this-support.

To clear the filter, press Shift+F.

You can specify the profile you want to use by passing -profile <filename> to the command-line.

Options and settings

In ~/.moprc:

    "RowShading": true,

will cause row shading on alternate lines.

Contributing

• Pull requests accepted.

License

Copyright (c) 2013-2024 by Michael Dvorkin and contributors. All Rights Reserved. "mike" + "@dvorkin" + ".net" || "twitter.com/mid"

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