Qtstalker

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.

See also

• Technical Analysis
• Technical analysis software

External links

• Qtstalker documentation
• Qtstalker on SourceForge