FreeMarket

[Linas Vepstas]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:40:44PM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel was heard to remark:
> 
> 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
> > 

TC2000

> There are some free tools that have been developed for stock analysis

please see www.gnucash.org/links.phtml and choose the 'trading'
category.

You may want to contact the folks at 
http://www.freemarket-project.org/


> (for instance, there is a graphing program called gstalker available),

I've invited the author for gstalker to come play with us, but 
he doesn't want to.  And guppi is not yet ready for this sort of stuff.

> Of course, one might point out that this is a gap in offerings for Linux,

Well, many of the basic features of TC2000 are not all that 
overwhelming, and I've long been hoping that the gnucash report
system would be up to the task.  It seems like its almost there,
except that the pricedb support is still very weak, and of course guppi 
needs a lot of polish.  Writing code to do 90-day moving averages, beta,
and the other mumbo jumbo names  is not hard.

Side note:
when I first started with gnucash 4-5 years ago, what I was going to 
do with it was to have a sophisticated portfolio monitoring tool.
However, I kept getting side-tracked ...

I still think this is an interesting thing to do, and if we could 
modularize gnucash a bit more, then this woudn't be so out of the
question.

I don't think its a particularly unreachable goal.  GnuCash now
has a lot of the infrastructure needed to pull this off.  Its a lot
easier than starting from scratch.


--linas