Dawn of the Geeks

Yahoo! probably has the best financial site on the net for gathering stock information. The goal of indie-stocks is to be an excellent free resource for portfolio tracking. At first I was pulling data directly from Yahoo! into the indie-stocks database. That worked for about a day. Data is now being downloaded directly to a local daily file. At the end of the day all the data points will then be pushed into the local database at once.

Once I get that process running efficiently I may have the database being updated as the day progresses. But, indie-stocks is not intended for day trading anyway. It’s for portfolio tracking. As such, fast time updates aren’t necessary. If you want to track the value of your stocks throughout the day, there are other services that can do that.

Currently indie-stocks is not doing database updates, but all the data is being collected. Hopefully I will have some time soon to make the site more useful.