FreeMarket
Robert Graham Merkel
rgmerk@mira.net
Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:27:53 +1000
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 16:03:54 Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks Linas, /me should have remembered to point people at that.
> 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.
>
One thing that a program like this demands, as I understand it,
is the ability to get arbitrary bits of stock information quickly
and without fuss. In the commercial offerings, a (paid-for)
subscription to their data service is necessary to make any real
use of the programs, I gather. Hmmm. . . .
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Robert Merkel rgmerk@mira.net
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