Thread: Charting Software

Wish I could help you with that TTMartin, but in any case, WELCOME to the Message Board~! Best of luck!
Norman

Originally Posted by TTMartin

I'm currently reading Constance Brown's 'All About TECHNICAL ANALYSIS'. I am looking for charting software, something that will download and store historical data from Yahoo!. I don't mind paying a reasonable price for the software, but, do not want to pay a subscription fee. I would like to have more flexibility and control then is provided by Yahoo! charts.

I appreciate opinions on all kinds of software (stand alone or excel add-ons). Also any feedback on Constance Brown's books as I have ordered other books of hers.

Thanks,
Tom

Hi Tom,

Hey, I would recommend downloading all of the pricing data from the TSP site and playing around with charting it yourself. You'll learn more about the various kinds of charts, etc. If you don't have a copy of Excel, grab a copy of Open Office (it's downloadable and free).

Most of these books deal with charting individual stocks and being able to react that data on a near real-time basis. Totally useless for what we need to be able to do.

Dan

Originally Posted by Dr Faustus

Hi Tom,

Hey, I would recommend downloading all of the pricing data from the TSP site and playing around with charting it yourself. You'll learn more about the various kinds of charts, etc. If you don't have a copy of Excel, grab a copy of Open Office (it's downloadable and free).

Most of these books deal with charting individual stocks and being able to react that data on a near real-time basis. Totally useless for what we need to be able to do.

Dan

I am slowly starting to work with the TSP/Yahoo data and chart/stat functions myself, verry slowly. -I used stats packages and databases for data analysis in lieu of Excel, back in the day when stat analysis was a more normal part of my life.

Meantime I lately also discovered there's a charting/portfolio mgt program out there called Wealth-Lab Pro that's apparently pretty hot. Apparently it's free if you're a hi-activity Fidelity customer, provides realtime end-of-day numbers. Not available to the general U.S. investor public however.

I looked on the web to learn a little more, and discovered there are other charting programs out there as well. The site below talks a little about those other programs and their strengths and weaknesses. Might be something useful there for someone who's ready to move beyond Excel.

http://www.turtletrader.com/wealth-lab.html

Originally Posted by TTMartin

I am looking for charting software, something that will download and store historical data from Yahoo!.
Tom

Hi Tom,

I have a few suggestions that you may want to take a look at. I ran across two programs that work well when I was looking for software that runs in Linux that you can download from sourceforge.net. They run under Linux or Windows and are built with Java. The first is called EclipseTrader and the second is AIOTrade. Both of these apps do not have install routines, they just unzip and run. The executible files are in the 'bin' directory. Another application is QuoteTracker and it is another free app (if ya don't mind the adds), it has many features but doesn't pull data from Yahoo. It does connect to many brokerage data feeds and other free data sources.

cheers!