Qtstalker
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Qtstalker is a free, user-friendly Technical Analysis software for POSIX systems. It is similar to commercial software such as Metastock, Supercharts and TradeStation, and 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.
[edit] 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 28 others
- 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, 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
