FreeMarket

[Robert Graham Merkel]

On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 03:02:54 Patrick Lanphier wrote:
> What are people currently using on Linux in place of say TradeStation or
> TS2000?  Thank you.
> 
> Patrick Lanphier
> The Artemis Group
> http://www.artemisgroup.com
> 

I gather that TradeStation and TS2000 are tools for obtaining
and analysing real-time stock information, and are intended
for use with the companies' information services which are sold
on a subscription basis.  While GnuCash can get price quotes online 
from public freely-available sources, it is not capable of this kind of
specialised analysis.

There are some free tools that have been developed for stock analysis
(for instance, there is a graphing program called gstalker available),
and Paul Fenwick's Finance::Quote Perl module provides infrastructure
for getting this kind of data (we use it in GnuCash) AFAIK there is
no free software available with the full sophistication of the above
proprietary tools.  I am also unaware if any similar proprietary tools 
have been ported to Linux.

So the short answer is I don't know, but you might be struggling at the 
moment - unless you want to run those programs under WINE or Win4Lin, 
which is apparently getting more viable all the time.

Of course, one might point out that this is a gap in offerings for Linux,
and a potentially profitable one, that an ambitious developer might 
want to examine.  That's not much help right now, of course.

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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