Ticker Tocker - Stocks, Crypto and Currency Prices
· v1.0.2
About
Ticker Tocker is a watchface designed as a tracker for the realtime trading price of a stock, cryptocurrency, or FOREX currency exchange pair. One or two assets can be tracked at a time, with support for graph view, trading candles (OHLC), and trading volume bars. (Currency exchange pairs can only use graph view). Prices and percent change calculations are updated every 5 minutes. While the visual focus is on trading prices, Ticker Tocker is also a highly functional watchface, supporting dual time zones, four customizable data fields, 24 hour and 12 hour time format, AOD display mode, and intuitive weather forecast icons.
*Currently, foreign stocks are not available. Only US stocks/indices, foreign currency pairs, and cryptocurrencies are supported*
Instructions for tracking entries:
-Select the type of asset corresponding to your entry (Currency, Crypto, or Stocks)
-Currency must be entered as a pair, delineated by a slash, ex: EUR/USD
-Cryptocurrency must be entered as a pair, delineated by a slash and supported by Binance, ex: BTC/USDT or ETH/BTC
-Stocks must be entered by their ticker as supported by Alpaca, ex: GRMN. Currently, the Alpaca API only supports US assets.
It may take 5 minutes for prices and graphs to appear after setting or changing the saved entries.
Users must sign up for a free Alpaca API account to fetch stock ticker data. (Crypto and foreign currency data is available without any API key required.) To set up your Alpaca API key:
-Register an account at https://app.alpaca.markets/signup
-Login to your account, enable 2FA if required, and navigate to account management at https://app.alpaca.markets/user/profile#manage-accounts
-Copy the key from the Key field to your Ticker Tocker app settings (through Connect IQ) to "Alpaca API Key ID"
-Copy the Secret Key (from the field below Key) to "Alpaca Secret Key"
For security reasons, it is recommended to use a new, otherwise unused Alpaca account solely for this purpose.
Technical notes: Only available trading days are returned for stocks; for example, if the time window is set to 3 days, it will return the last three active trading days for which graph data is available, excluding days where the market was closed, so that the chart does not display as blank. Percent change calculations are over the displayed graph duration, not intraday; for example, if your time window is 14 days, the displayed percent change is from 14 days ago to the current time. Price refreshes as frequently as every 5 minutes when an update is available; stock prices are delayed by a further 15 minutes (Alpaca API limitation). Volume bars and candle view are not available for currency exchange rates. Currency exchange rate data is limited to daily points+current rate; therefore, it is not recommended to use a 24h time window for currency data, as the graph will consist of only two points (API limitation).
There are 4 customizable data fields with user choices to display any of the following: Sunrise/Sunset, Heart Rate, Respiration Rate, Intensity Minutes, Active Calories, Daily Calories, Pulse Ox, Steps, Floors Climbed, Distance, Altitude, Notifications, Weather High/Low Temp, Weather Current Temp, Body Battery, Stress, Barometric Pressure, Recovery Time, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Running Distance, Cycling Distance and Battery Percentage.
Further user options include a second time zone display, radial or numeric seconds display, Bluetooth status icon, and grayscale datafield icons.
What's new
1.0.2: Performance improvements