📈 Share Price Monitoring CLI Application

A command-line application for tracking and recording share prices using Yahoo Finance data. This tool allows users to create and manage a customizable list of shares, with historical pricing data saved as CSV files.

🚀 Features

• Track multiple shares: Maintain a customizable list of stock symbols to monitor.
• Live price retrieval: Fetch real-time share prices using the yfinance package.
• Automatic CSV logging: Save historical price data for each tracked share, organized by date.
• Persistent share list: The list of tracked shares is stored locally and can be manually edited.
• Simple CLI interface: Interact with the program via a command-line interface.
• File selection UI: Uses tkinter for selecting files when needed.

🛠️ Installation

Ensure you have Python 3.7+ installed, then install the required dependencies:

pip install yfinance pandas tk

📌 Usage

Run the application from the command line:

python share_monitor.py

Core Functions:

• Add shares: Add stock symbols (e.g., AAPL, GOOGL) to your tracking list.
• Remove shares: Remove stocks from the list at any time.
• View tracked shares: Display all currently tracked shares.
• Fetch prices: Retrieve the latest prices for all tracked shares.
• Export data: Prices are automatically logged in /data as CSV files.

CSV File Structure:

Each share has its own CSV file in the /data folder, structured as follows:

Date	Open	High	Low	Volume
2025-02-08	152.00	149.80	151.50	10,000

📂 File Structure

/share-price-monitor/
│── bin/                   # Stores the user's tracked share list
│── data/                  # Contains historical price CSV files
│── share_monitor.py       # Main application script
│── requirements.txt       # List of dependencies
│── README.md              # Project documentation

✨ Customization

• The tracked share list is stored in /bin/tracked_shares.txt and can be edited manually.
• The CSV data folder (/data) can be changed in the script settings.

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a feature branch: git checkout -b feature-name
3. Commit changes: git commit -m "Add new feature"
4. Push to branch: git push origin feature-name
5. Open a pull request.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.