So you decide to write a tool to
extract the data and display it in a ticker format on your desktop.
You routinely download your portfolio into a CSV file on your computer at home,
which allows you to import the data into various tools, such as your financial planning
application. However, you would also like to track your stock??™s progress at work, and you
don??™t want your IT staff to know the details of your portfolio. Since the IT staff routinely
monitors traffic, you don??™t want to log in directly to your Fidelity account or, for that
matter, any of the other financial trackers you might use. You don??™t mind that the stock
symbols themselves are available, since they say nothing about the total size of your
investment.
To meet your needs, you??™ll create a simple XML server to get the data and a graphical
stock ticker to display updates.
For this example, you??™ll need a Fidelity CSV file. If you have a Fidelity account, you
can get a Fidelity CSV file by logging in, clicking an appropriate account, and clicking
Download.
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