[MMM-JaST] Just another Stock Ticker (new: version 2.x)

Jalibu

@MZ-BER thanks for your feedback. Also @spitzlbergerj asked for such a feature.
Technically, the implementation (and calculation) should be very easy. The tricky part is to get this fitting into the different display modes/styles (e.g. horizontal, vertical scrolling). The horizontal scrolling values for example are hard to understand without any caption for what they stand for.
In a table view like your’s, that’s easy and I’ve been thinking for a long time to introduce an additional table mode (like MMM-AVStock for example). The reason why I haven’t so far implemented this is, that I want to avoid that some features are only visible in a subset of modes/styles.

But since several people have already expressed their wish and one shouldn’t hold back improvements because one could theoretically make it even better, I’ll try to implement that soon.

spitzlbergerj

Hi @Jalibu
I don’t think it’s really a problem to understand the values even without appropriate tags. It’s not like there are hundreds of unknown and untrained people looking at such a MagicMirror. It is rather family or smaller teams that look at the displays. And those who are interested in shares quickly know what means what. That’s how it is in my proposal. On MagicMirror, the color of the values is usually enough for me to decide whether to trade. Everything else happens on the trading platform.

I use many models in different views on my different MagicMirrors. With almost all modules, the different views also offer different functionalities. That’s kind of the point of a view - a different look at the same raw data. so I wouldn’t have a problem with that.

And as already said, I would like to help. Unfortunately I lack the knowledge of the programming language used and the appropriate development environment.

Many greetings and happy coding
Sepp

Jalibu

@spitzlbergerj @MZ-BER
I added some options to calculate the stock’s and the portfolio’s performance based on the purchase price.
You can test it in the module’s development branch: https://github.com/jalibu/MMM-Jast/tree/development

It currently looks like this which is not very pretty, imho. Please share your feedback and thoughts for further improvement.

PS: Inspired by this, I thought of a new display mode with a table with sticky header and alternating body in the future.

Jalibu

@spitzlbergerj @MZ-BER
I introduced a first draft for a table view. You can select a “page size” for stock rotation.

Please share your feedback.

MZ-BER

@Jalibu - fantastic Job! I just pulled the dev version and added the purchasePrice next to the quantity. The calculation is functioning properly. There is a slight discrepancy in the total amount, which is likely due to the exchange where I obtained my information. (The screenshot is from Parquet and they are utilizing Xetra as their exchange.

Overall the first iteration is really good.

Here some feedback (will share more as soon as I have time):

Some of my stocks/ETFs have three decimal places for the prices (Column Kursgewinn)
By adding more options like value increase % or total ect. new columns with header should be created. Otherwise it is confusing to understand where the number refers to.
Kursgewinn could be colored with green or red

spitzlbergerj

@Jalibu
Thank you very much for these variants. I’m on the road and unfortunately won’t be able to test live in the next days.

I don’t really have much room for the stocks on the mirror unfortunately. Three lines at the bottom is all I can use. So the Views I posted initially was my very favorite.

Suggestion 1: expand the ticker format to show each stock in two lines

Share 1                                 Share 2                               Share 3 ... 
current price  current performace       current price current performace      current price current performace ...
purchase price purchase performace      purchase price purchase performace    purchase price purchase performace ...

Suggestion 2: Ticker to switch off

Suggestion 3: gladly also your new ticker view, then however options whether the respective values are to be faded in.

regards
Josef

spitzlbergerj

@Jalibu
Please forgive me for not getting back to you in so long. I just have too many projects in parallel and the MagicMirror had to wait for a while now :-)

I wanted to try the new display now. Unfortunately I am a github and git layman. Therefore I need your help.

How can I switch from the master branch to the development branch and then do a git pull to get the new version?
Unfortunately google didn’t really get me anywhere. I have tried many things, unfortunately without success so far

Thanks a lot!
Greetings
Sepp

Jalibu

@spitzlbergerj
from within the MMM-Jast directory, execute

git checkout development

Unfortunately, I really don’t find the time to continue working on this project.

Community, I would be very grateful for help.

spitzlbergerj

@Jalibu
thank you very much. For me it works now

Jalibu

Some may have noticed, that this module stopped working in the past days due to a change in Yahoo’s finance API.
Today, I published an update for MMM-Jast which should fix that.