Markets Today is a desktop widget to monitor financial markets. The widget is currently in Alpha Beta stage and is available in extras-devel. Harmattan release can be downloaded from here.

You can update the quotes manually or setup auto-update the quotes every few minutes (please see known issues).

Data source is Yahoo! finance. Any indexes/stock tickers supported by yahoo are supported in this app. However, this is not a real-time quote-streaming application or a portolio-tracking application. Assume at least 20 min delay for the quotes.

The specific delays for each exchange supported by Yahoo finance are listed here.

I used this app idea to learn QML. Widget functionality is based on Qt4 Home screen loader. This project is hosted on maemo garage. License is GPL. Check the source or file bugs from garage.

Known Issues:

1) Not tested with CSSU.

2) Memory usage is around 12% on regular use. While I am working on cutting this down, I noticed that the Qt Maemo 5 Homescreen example uses 6% by itself. Appreciate any help from experienced devs on this one. See release 0.2-1

3) Auto-update feature is buggy. You will be prompted to select a connection every time, if no pre-configured connections are available to connect automatically.

4) Not tested with proxy-server setup. Let me know if you face any issues using this widget with a proxy server.


Future Enhancements (based on feedback):

1) Headline news (Subject only) based on RSS feed. Completed

2) Charts Completed

3) Other UI enhancements.


Usage Instructions/Tips:

1) Use INDU as the ticker symbol for Dow Jones, for some reason Yahoo doesn't support ^DJIA.

2) Double tap ^ on virtual keyboard to enter the ^ character (I never RTFM, so this could just be my ignorance).


As with most application in extras-devel or alpha state, use this application at your own risk. Feedback is welcome.