Writting you software/logic on REAL-TIME stock prices

Investing Strategies
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Hi, Is there any programmer on this forum.

I have some questions

1)Where I can get share price atleast per minute through API for programmers

  1. Which language Python or Java or any other better language do u use for that???

I wanted to write simple application that for all A/B group stocks reads stock prices (atleast)per minute and then check if price is rising only for last 30 minutes

SO at any point of time I will get list of stocks satisfying above criteria*****

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  1. Google Spreadsheets provide an API to get uptodate stock quotes :

For example, =GoogleFinance(“TITAN”; “price”) returns the current market price of Titan Industries.

  1. You can use python scripts to read/write data into Google Spreadsheets. This link provides some examples - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9690138/reading-writing-to-google-docs-spreadsheets-with-python

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Raj.

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google finance api shutdown happened last year

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does india cos like monecontrol have such APIs

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Google Finance API for spreadsheets still work. Check this link for a sample spreadsheet with latest prices for few stocks :https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgkO83nN37BxdHFZWDBiZVNCbkxxMlpYZnZ1SGluS3c&usp=sharing

Regards,

Raj.

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The solution I would suggest is to

1). Get uptodate stock prices into a Google Spreadsheet using GoogleFinance function as shown in the example above.

2). Write a python script which will check this spreadsheet every minute or so, compare it with previous values to identify the trend.

Regards,

Raj.

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