Thanks!

The invisible cursor is because I hide the cursor before doing the ticker line. I'm not sure I could make a backgroundable ticker. It needs to put text in specific locations on the screen which might end up moving the cursor, but it's something I might play with. As long as the terminal supports escape sequences, it might be possible. I'll definitely look into it.

I suspected jq wouldn't be available. I'm looking at some bash JSON projects to replace it, but I'm undecided as of yet.

For the worth ticker it may have failed to fetch something or one of the sub commands was missing. You could edit the script to include set -x but the output can be troublesome to debug without understanding what the script is doing.

Did you try running the worth ticker multiple times?