I proudly present you the "Stock Pilot", a tool for simplifying research on stocks.
This is what happens when a programmer shows interest in stock research ;)
I developed it out of my observation that researching stocks takes too many user interactions,
and that bookmarking finance portals is not very helpful in getting arranged with all those
pages and companies.
The addon covers the 5.000 largest US stocks, very soon up to 10.000 stocks will be supported. Working samples and the actual coverage can be accessed here:
The technical background is very interesting and features different technologies:
- Firefox Add-On for recognising the finance portal and the "context" of researched company (Boris Ruf did an excellent job implementing this part, please also check out his awesome "FootieFox" add-on, which provides Soccer scores for over 200 leagues and cups of 60 countries - live and almost instantly: http://www.footiefox.com
- Web-Crawling Agents for retrieving the neccessary mappings
- Amazon S3 for providing reliable storage
Please download it here
If you like it, then vote on addons.mozilla.org - if not let me hear about your experiences, maybe I can help by improving...