BTC-E Ticker Application

[abello00]

If anyone is interested, I wrote an application that polls btc-e for current prices and has buy/sell alerts...

https://i.imgur.com/kcDrbco.png?1?2509

This is not a trading bot so it will not perform any trades on your account.

Download Link:
http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/87884535/file.html

I wrote this program myself and can guarantee that it does not have any malware (the reason why I wrote the program is because of the overwhelming amount of malware disguised as trading bots).  It is pretty straightforward.. let me know if you have any questions.

If there is interest in the community for this application, I will provide updates and periodically add new features.  

[HackNFly]

Just to let you know i tried out your app and it works, but still needs some features to be useful.

Last weekend I installed mint linux on an old acer aspire one mini laptop pc I had lying around and wrote a php script that would poll the btc-e website parse the json and check if it was below or above a certain value.  Then ran a cron job every 30 minutes calling the script.  If the value was above that set point I would have it text me.  I just had it send out an e-mail to my phonenumber@vtext.com  You have to use a legitimate SMTP service, like google's free SMTP service though, or else all your e-mails are filtered out as junk mail.  I think that would add some real value to your program and wouldn't be that hard to implement. 

What language did you write it in ? C# / Visual Basic?  The look of the program reminds me of the VS2008 era apps that I loved so much.  (not sarcasm, I actually liked it)

Good work on that first release, if you don't like the e-mail idea, maybe having the app icon flash would help.  Right now its no different than staring at the BTC-e site directly.

Good luck.

[Flashman]

NEWBIE CAUTION

There have been several trojan apps lately purporting to use trading or information site APIs to offer information etc, but in actual fact attempting to steal your wallet or otherwise compromise your machine. Notably a fake bitcoinwisdom app has been spammed on several message boards, in chats etc.

USE EXTREME CARE WITH 3RD PARTY APPLICATIONS.

[abello00]

Thank you flashman for the warning.  You can look at this program with a firewall and confirm that it *ONLY* goes to the btc-e website to pull the ticker info (wireshark works well too).  I was considering releasing the source code so that others can create their own .exe and not have to worry about trusting someone else's word.  

HackNFly... This app was created in C# using VS2008 so very good guess.  You are spot on with your requests.  For my next revision, I was going to add the remaining cryptocurrencies and I was also considering adding support for e-mailing out the alerts (texting may be a better idea).  Thanks for the feedback!

[HackNFly]

No problem, good luck.