Comments on: Euro Stocks Widget

By: steve

steve — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:20:45 +0000

great widget ….. but the fact I can’t delete aaba.as is a nuisance. Is there a solution?

By: alex

alex — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:17:58 +0000

Hello and thank You very much for this very nice and useful widget.
I have two observations:
- I think it would be nice to have a weekly chart
- It would be interesting if stocks would sort automatically according to the change in percent: from the highest positive percent change (on top) to the lowest (on bottom). This way you could have at a glance a first impression of the general move of the followed stocks.

Nice work indeed. Keep going!
hvala, merci
alex, serbia

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:19:16 +0000

Hi again,

I have been using the widget some more and have it running next to the Apple stocks widget.

The Apple widget also truncates stock prices to the nearest cent (Grrrr), however the calculations in the change in price seem to be performed on the RAW data, but the EuroStock widget seems to calculate this after the truncation. For example a stock opened at 0.044, dropped to 0.4 (I checked this from the exchange listing). The Apple widget reports a drop in price of 10%; the EuroStock widget says a change of 0% That is quite a difference. It looks like the 0.044 is first rounded to 0.04 then compared to the opening price.

I hope this helps.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:55:12 +0000

Hi, thanks for the widget. A list of suggestions:

* when entering a stock, map the return key to the Add button and ensure the text field for the stock name is reselected (will make it easier to enter multiple stocks)
* reselect the stock when you move it up or down (easily allows you to move it a number of locations)
* display stock price and price change to tens of cents (many stocks only change by a fraction of a cent, but this information is currently lost)
* set background colour for stocks whose price has not changed to blue, for example, not green (then green will only indicate stocks that have risen)

However, I like it. It messed things up when I entered my stocks, but was able to re-enter them okay. Keep up the good work.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:55:20 +0000

Hi Broes. It seems like something has been changed in Yahoo making the kurves at the bottom invalid. The values for many of the stocks are simply not the correct value. The numeric values shows correctly.

Anything I can do to correct?

…thank you

Jesper

By: Joost Janssen

Joost Janssen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:03:42 +0000

Sorry, It seems that a warning about slow flash was stopping the widget from being operated. Works fine now.

By: Joost Janssen

Joost Janssen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:01:50 +0000

The Euro Stocks widget seems te be frozen. I can not do anything with it, not even cmd-R works. I already deleted the .plist and downloaded fresh widgets. What to do?

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:28:19 +0000

Thanks for the explaination. Too bad, but not your fault. I was hoping there is a way to display the data as in the interactive chart. There the data is available.

Btw, thanks for the great widget.

By: Broes

Broes — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:10:15 +0000

@Frank
As you can see on
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EURJPY%3DX&m=L&d=

In the left-side menu, there is no option “Historical prices” (as there is for other items, like e.g. “TOM2.AS”). This option is used by the widget, not directly, but the underlying CSV file download option. It just doesn’t exist for (most of the) currency rates. The data it receives for the 2y and 5y options in the widget is corrupt, but the widget can’t detect that.
The Yahoo charts are all “bitmap” charts, but apart from the 1day chart in the widget, the rest of the charts are drawn “live” in the widget. This essentially means that the widget, apart from the 1day/intraday chart, downloads a list of values and creates the chart itself.

So my apologies, but at this time the widget will not be able to provide you with the data you need, since Yahoo doesn’t provide the “historical prices” option for currencies.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:35:34 +0000

I am tracking EURJPY=X, but the widget can only display a chart for 1 day, 2 years and 5 years. All other (for me more useful) options don’t work and produce the report “chart not available”. Why is that? Yahoo finance can perfectly display the charts.