Stockr is an Firefox extension, developed by Veera Sundar. This extension is targeted to the day traders of Indian Stock Market, NSE (a.k.a. Nifty) for helping them to keep track of their profit/loss position on a given day.
Can I use this extension?
If you do day trade in National Stock Exchange of India, the answer is YES! If you have a demat account with ICICIDirect.com, then you may find this extension helpful. Because this extension gets the stock prices from ICICIDirect.com website and make use of the stock codes from that site. For example, ICICIDirect.com uses the code SUZENE for Suzlon. So, its highly recommended to use the ICICIDirect.com’s code convention while using this extension. If not, this extension might not work as expected.
You can find the ICICIDirect.com’s code for all stocks here (it’s a pop-up) : Find Symbol for Stocks in ICICIDirect.com
How do I use this extension?
- Download Stockr from Firefox’s Addons Gallery and install it.
- After restarting Firefox, you may see a text label ‘stockr’ at the Firefox’s status bar. If yes, then the extension is ready for use.
- Now right click on the stockr label and select Configure Stock.
- Below dialog box will be displayed, where you can configure the stock details. Please note that the stock code in this screen is need to be get from ICICIDirect.com website. For example, here I’m entering SUZENE, which represents the Suzlon Enery.
- After entering the stock details, press save and your information will be saved in the Firefox’s preferences. This ensures that even after you close and re-start Firefox, the stock details will be preserved. Click OK to close the dialog box.
- That’s it. The configuration is done now. Now Stockr will fetch the latest value of SUZENE from ICICIDirect.com and will calculate the profit/loss based on the values you’d given and then updates the result in the status-bar. This process continues for every 5 seconds.
- If you want to stop tracking, then right clock on the Stockr extension and then select Remove Stock.
What next for Stockr – the Road map
Here are the few things that I’m planning to do in the next few months on Stockr:
- Add a proper and better error handling.
- Functionality to track more than one stock at a time.
- Ability to source the information from multiple websites to reduce the dependency on ICICIDirect.com.
- Currently the extension uses JQuery for communication. Have to replace this with native AJAX calls, which may reduce the extension size considerably.
- Some fancy, eye-catchy alerts when stock price reaches a particular value – this feature will bring back the JQuery into picture, again.
Questions/Suggestions/Complaints/Feature Requests
If you have any of the above, then don’t have it yourself. Feel free to leave a comment, so that I’ll be able to respond A.S.A.P.
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Hi,
Stock market India is volatile and all those who speculate in market are loosing everyday. Please remember stock market is not for speculation purpose. If one feel investing in stock market is gamble then its better to think again.
One should always note that if they want to invest money they should do proper research be it fundamental research or technical research. Just think how come you can invest
your money without any convincing reason for the same?
Indian stock market is one of the most happening and emerging market. Major Indian stock exchanges are BSE and NSE and both are of world class standards.
So grab good stocks and invest that’s the bottom line.
We hope to see you in major profits.
Regards
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Can you please update the install.rdf for the new FF version…