If you've ever tried to get real-time market data, run a treasury report, and monitor a cross-border settlement at the same time, you know the problem: you're switching between a Bloomberg window, a spreadsheet, and a Slack thread just to do your job.
I spent a year building Pacific CLI — a command-line interface for quantitative finance that puts live market intelligence, treasury management, and compliance workflows inside your terminal.
Here's what it does and how I built it.
The Live Ticker
bash
$ pacific ticker AAPL NVDA TSLA MSFT GOOG --refresh 5s
This renders a terminal dashboard that refreshes every 5 seconds:
Live price with directional arrow and change %
5-day mini bar chart (ASCII rendered, color coded)
Volume, Market Cap, 52-week range
The ticker pulls from Yahoo Finance's real-time API, sanitizes and caches responses, and renders with a custom terminal UI built in [framework/language].
Treasury Management
$ pacific balance --all
USDC $142,000.00 ✓ reconciled
NGN ₦98,450,000 ✓ live
$ pacific settle --to ng --amount 50000
Routing via GRRNNetwork...
Settlement complete [0.8s]
Fee: $22.50 Rate: 1591.2 NGN/USD
The settle command integrates with GRRNNetwork — the cross-chain settlement layer we built for African payment corridors. But it works with any configurable settlement backend.
Compliance & Reporting
$ pacific report --q2 --format pdf
Generating compliance report...
Exported: Q2_2026_report.pdf ✓
Reports pull from your connected data sources (settlement records, balance history, FX logs) and output structured PDFs with audit trails.
Why a CLI?
Most financial professionals already live in the terminal. VS Code, git, SSH sessions — the terminal is open all day. The question was why financial data requires a separate, expensive GUI application with a $25,000/year subscription.
Pacific CLI is available on macOS, Windows, and as a Chrome extension for browser-based access.
I'm releasing this during beta — free to use, looking for feedback from quants, traders, and fintech engineers.
What commands would you want that aren't in the current build?
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