Chris Billington wrote:
> productivity/ticker (Go) like the similarly-named productivity/tickrs 
> tracks stock/crypto/stockindexes using data obtained from Yahoo Finance.
> 
> The difference between them is that tickrs (Rust) is primarily a 
> graphing program with a very simple portfolio/holdings facility. Average 
> prices have to be manually calculated and only one 'portfolio' can be 
> configured.
> 
> productivity/ticker presents numerical data only, for multiple 
> portfolios, and properly tracks different currencies and major/minor 
> pricing like GBP (Pounds)/GBp (Pence), which is needed in some markets. 
> It also handles multiple lots per security and calculates the average cost.
> 
> For this reason, I suggest it is worth having both in the ports tree.
> 
> This port is v5.3.0 which implements the major/minor currency handling.
> 
> Tested on -current amd64 Build date: 1782425853 - Thu Jun 25 22:17:33 
> UTC 2026
> 
> Testing and comments are welcome
> 
> Regards
> Chris Billington
I since realised that a simpler way of putting the above could be:

tickrs primarily deals with graphing historical data, while ticker 
provides only current price data and can track the value of groups of 
selected holdings.
The two ports are complementary rather than overlapping in functionality.

Comments/suggestions on the ticker port are welcome.

Chris