How to easily display Stock portfolios in Ubuntu

Gnome Invest Applet


This applet allows you to define your portfolio and calculates gains and loses. It also allows you to look at a lot of financial indicators, for each stock.
It comes pre-installed in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.
Just by right click on the panel and select "Add to Panel".

The stock browser allows you to auto refresh the data and select multiple financial indicators that are displayed with high detail.


Stocks gadget in Google Gadgets

Install Google Gadgets, and add the "Stocks gadgets". It's nice application to track stocks and market indexes. It also displays minimal stock data, when you click on a selected stock.

Both tools are very easy to use and setup.

kexi and beancounter

I was looking for applications to track investments on linux, with a good level of usability and configuration. But was no able to find any good ones.

So I was trying to integrate beancounter and kexi into a more usable application.

I converted the beancounter database to kexi (Filename: PowerInvest.kexi).

I was able to have beancounter updating and adding stocks to kexi database, using mysql and sqllite3. I decided to use Kexi 1.1.1 and sqlite to allow me to move the file from machine to machine. I implemented the lsportfolio option in kexi using a simple query in a few minutes.

You can find the PowerInvest.kexi in kde-files.org web site on kexi templates, or using the kexi and selecting "Download example databases" from the file menu. http://kde-files.org/?xcontentmode=614

I would be glade to know about more linux user friendly software for stocks/etf/funds statistics, and portfolio tracking tools (KDE/GNome based).

I'll post more about this test I'm doing with kexi/beancounter in the near future.