Stock software, trendlines

[Julius]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:16 -0600, Mark wrote:
> Let me start with a caveat that this is probably a bad idea... but this
> is what I did:
> 
> I have a backend process that processes the gnucash xml file.  It makes
> a summary of it.  This summary is readable by cacti.  Cacti then creates
> trend graphs of a multitude of things (stock prices is part of it, but I
> have probably 70 graphs of various things.)
> 
> The plus side is you get a history going back as far as you want.  I
> have mine for 10 years.  (I've been doing this a while.)  The
> granularity becomes more and more coarse as you go back.
> 
> The bad side: the xml file will be changing and this will break.  Soon.
> 

That sounds interesting, getting the data via Finance::Quote and saving
it to a database shouldnt be a big problem.
Ive also found sites that offer old stock quotes as spreadsheets.
Could you show some screenshots?


Julius