As of right now the project is really an experimental rough-draft... no where near a real API I'm willing to put my name behind... But what I'm wanting to know is if people would be interested in this. Would you be interested in a very fast and easy-to-use C# API that can accept any stock ticker symbol and return a full, real-time quote, from which you can easily read the data and integrate it directly into your software?
If this might be of interest to you then vote up and/or reply to this post; if it seems like a good handful of people might be interested in this I will write a usable version of the aforementioned API and offer it as freeware -- free of any charges or royalties. Since I've already gotten all the details worked out and have a working mini-prototype the work will not take me too long! I just don't want to do all the work if no one wants it!
The API returns stock quote objects that look a bit like this::
[source lang="csharp"]public class StockQuote{ /*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * FIELDS & PROPERTIES :: *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /// <summary> /// Ticker symbol of the stock /// </summary> public string Ticker { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Name of the company /// </summary> public string CompanyName { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Description of exchange on which stock is traded /// </summary> public Exchange Exchange { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Name of base currency in which prices are quoted /// </summary> public string Currency { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Last trade price /// </summary> public float Last { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Today's high price /// </summary> public float High { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Today's low price /// </summary> public float Low { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Today's total trade volume (in n-shares) /// </summary> public uint Volume { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Average daily volume /// </summary> public uint VolumeAvg { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Total market capitalization /// </summary> public double MarketCap { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Today's opening price /// </summary> public float Open { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Last session's closing price /// </summary> public float PrevClose { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Net change for the day (in points) /// </summary> public float NetChange { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Net change for the day as percent /// </summary> public float PercentChange { get; set; } /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* ******************************************************************************* *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/};[/source]
Sooo... let me know! Feel free to post any suggestions/ideas as well! ;-)
Regards,
--ATC--
