A live stock watchlist, with charts and the trending tape
Watched properly.
Add any symbol and it joins the list with its live price, the day’s move and the session range. Tap a row and the chart opens — a month of closes drawn right here, in a canvas, no charting library. The indices strip reads the market’s pulse on every visit, and the list itself is kept only in your browser. To price it, each read sends its tickers to this site’s own relay, which keeps Yahoo’s answer for up to two hours for the next reader.
Above all of it runs the tape: three strips carrying what is trending, what is trading most, and the symbols the wire is naming right now — read live, priced, and each one a press away from its own chart.
Quotes are read from Yahoo Finance’s public endpoints through this site’s own relay, and the page says so — they can lag the tape by minutes, and a symbol that will not answer is reported as exactly that. Nothing here is investment advice; it is a well-made window onto public data.
the tape · live quotes · day moves · drawn charts · the indices · your list, kept locally
Not read yet.
The pulse
The market, at a glance.
Four readings taken live when the page loads — the S&P 500, the Dow, the Nasdaq and Bitcoin — and re-taken whenever you ask.
Indices
The watchlist
Add a ticker, keep it watched.
Type a symbol or a company name — the lookup resolves it — or deal yourself ten at random from the catalogue. The list persists in this browser, refreshes on demand, and exports to a PDF snapshot on the labs letterhead.
Watchlist
Suggestions:
The chart
Any range, drawn here.
Tap any row in the watchlist — or name a symbol directly — and pick a range, from one day to the whole history: closes as a line, the range shaded, the move for the period stated plainly. Drawn in a canvas by this page’s own hand.
Chart
Overview
A watchlist in your browser, priced from Yahoo Finance.
Stocks is a watchlist that lives in your browser. Add any symbol Yahoo Finance knows — type the ticker or the company name and the lookup resolves it — and it joins the list with its price, the day's move and the session range. Deal ten at random from a catalogue of 303 companies, add a curated bench such as FANG+ or the semiconductors, or take the top ten from one of Yahoo's live screeners: gainers, losers, most active, most shorted. The list stays in this browser and prints to a PDF snapshot.
Across the top runs the tape: Yahoo's US trending board, its most-active screener, and the symbols named in the last two days of market headlines, weighted so a story about two companies counts for more than a fund round-up naming fifteen. Every chip is priced and a press away from its chart. The indices strip reads the S&P 500, the Dow, the Nasdaq and Bitcoin, and the chart runs from one day to the full history, drawn in a canvas by the page itself. The tape is reused for five minutes; the list and the indices are read on load and again whenever you ask.
What it does not do is stream exchange prices or give advice. Yahoo's endpoints send no CORS headers, so every request goes through the site's own relay on labs.llc, which keeps each answer for the next reader for a minute (a list, five); a quote can lag the market by minutes, and a symbol that will not answer is reported as exactly that. No accounts, no keys, no orders, no fundamentals. For the paperwork behind a ticker, read Filings, off SEC EDGAR; to price an entry against the stock's own recent range, hand the symbol to RINSE.
About
A watchlist, not a terminal.
The stocks.systems watchlist, brought home to labs.llc and rebuilt on the paper system in both editions. The list is yours and stays in your browser; the quotes are Yahoo Finance’s public data read through the site’s own relay and labelled with their limits; the charts are drawn by the page itself. No accounts, no keys, no advice — a clean window onto the tape.
The three strips at the top are read the same way and none of them is a stored list: trending is Yahoo’s own board, most active is its volume screener, and the news row is the symbols carried by the current headlines — weighted so a story naming two companies counts for more than a fund round-up naming fifteen, and nothing older than two days counts at all. The four calls run one after another rather than at once, and the relay keeps each answer for a minute (a quote) or five (a list), so a room of readers is one question to Yahoo. A row that cannot be read says which link failed — Yahoo or the relay — and a row that is merely slow says that instead.