Qtstalker

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Developer(s) Stefan Stratigakos		Operating system Cross-platform
Stable release 0.36 / April 19, 2008 (2008-04-19) Type Technical analysis software License GNU General Public License Website qtstalker.sourceforge.net

Qtstalker is a free technical analysis program for POSIX systems. It keeps to a lean, simple design for speed, portability and low resource usage. Qtstalker can be extended because it uses a plugin model. It is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Features

A point-and-click object-oriented graphical user interface

Chart plugins include line, bar, candlestick, point and figure, and swing

Customizable colors

Logarithmic and linear arithmetic scaling, scale to screen

Indicators plugins:

Bollinger bands

MACD

Moving average

RSI

Stochastic

and 133 others that are in this list

Chart drawing objects: trendlines, buy/sell arrows, horizontal and vertical lines, Fibonacci retracement lines, text

Quote plugins download data from online sources such as Yahoo (with quotes from several stock exchange in the world, the full list here), CME, NYBOT

Data import plugins for plain-text CSV files and MySQL database

The "Plugin" architecture for quotes and indicators enables easy future extensibility

Daily, weekly and monthly chart compression (intra-day in development)

Various data classes to support for investment types such as stocks, futures, indices, ratios and spreads

A back testing function allowing indicator performance tests using actual trading data

A very basic portfolio manager, for tracking open positions

A Scanner that can scan the qtstalker database for charts that meet a user defined criteria

Possible to create indicators with the CUS built-in script language.

References

Qtstalker Wikipedia

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