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piker
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Anti-fragile trading gear for hackers, scientists, stay-at-home quants and underpants warriors.
Install
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``piker`` is currently under heavy alpha development and as such should
be cloned from this repo and hacked on directly.
A couple bleeding edge components are being used atm pertaining to
async ports of libraries for use with `trio`_.
Before installing make sure you have ``pip`` and ``virtualenv``.
For a development install::
git clone git@github.com:pikers/piker.git
cd piker
virtualenv env
source ./env/bin/activate
pip install cython
pip install -e ./ -r requirements.txt
To start the real-time pot-stock watchlist::
piker watch cannabis
.. _trio: https://github.com/python-trio/trio
Laggy distros
=============
For those running pop-culture distros that don't yet ship ``python3.6``
you'll need to install it as well as `kivy source build`_ dependencies
since currently there's reliance on an async development branch.
For `ubuntu` this looks like::
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
build-essential \
python3.6 \
python3.6-dev \
ffmpeg \
libsdl2-dev \
libsdl2-image-dev \
libsdl2-mixer-dev \
libsdl2-ttf-dev \
libportmidi-dev \
libswscale-dev \
libavformat-dev \
libavcodec-dev \
zlib1g-dev
# then to create your virtualenv with py3.6
virtualenv -p $(which python3.6) env
.. _kivy source build:
https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-linux.html#installation-in-a-virtual-environment
Tech
****
``piker`` is an attempt at a pro-grade, next-gen open source toolset
for trading and financial analysis. As such, it tries to use as much
cutting edge tech as possible including Python 3.6+ and ``trio``.