Text/bg color change on price update

[RowanFeely]

Sometimes it can be hard to catch changes in values, which can be useful at times (ie. seeing constant updates in price potentially reflecting larger volumes selling/buying; yes i know its almost impossible to tell that from frequency of price change, but sometimes slow or non volatile stock being bought/value changing can be picked up aesthetically)

Would it be at all feasible or desired by other users to have stock values stored, and on update if the value has changed, represent that change visually like most other stock watching platforms do? For example:

• yahoo finance: if theres a change, it flashes the background color of the text displaying the stock value to red or green depending on value change (positive/negative)

• tradingview: changes the color of the text displaying the stock value to red or green depending on change, up to the decimal value. (eg. if TSLA is $1.01 and changes to $1.12, then the text color of the last 2 decimals (12 cents) is changed)

I think it would be an easy test to change the stock price text bg color to red or green depending on value change (positive/negative) for 1 second after update. (if there is a change)
It will either be aesthetically sensible and bring a way to easily identify changes when they occur after a refresh, or heavy and confusing. I'm interested to see the result if we can manage.

[achannarasappa]

Thank you for the suggestion and the detailed examples to illustrate the concept!

I like the idea and I agree it would improve the user experience for the reasons you stated.

I'll need to put some more thought into when and how to indicate a a meaningful price change so as to not create too much noise. The change magnitude based visual indicator of tradingview's approach might be worth exploring further as a way to keep visual noise to a minimum.