Tagging: it would be great if you could create custom tags and associate them with stocks (perhaps in the user-defined stocks database entries), and then use these later for filtering/grouping, for alerts, or other operations.Chatting: I was not able to find anyone to chat with either there were no users online or I set it up incorrectly (although the set-up seemed super easy).I did not really use this, but I imagine that it would be extremely value added Portfolio Management: this is where you can record transactions that occur on a list of stocks and keep track of your profit and loss.The image to the right shows an alert that will be triggered when the stock’s current last price is the maximum it has been for the past 14 days. I simply re-created the indicator that was described in the help section and it was apparent to me just how powerful and versatile these indicators could be. A visual editor is built into JStock that allows you to create these without any programming skills however, it helps to know what you are going after ). Stock Indicators: JStock allows you to create your own indicators and use these to generate alerts.Alerts can be sent for stocks in your “real time” list, for an entire country’s stock market, for a particular board such as the NYSE, for a unknown “industries” (I am not sure exactly how JStock comes up with these), or, perhaps most useful, for the stocks that are user-defined in your database (choose “user-defined” industry for this one). SMS alerts are 100% free (you need to set up a Google Calendar account and register your mobile number more info here). Alerts: once you set up your desired “Stock Indicators” (see below) JStock can deliver SMS, Email, or system tray alerts based on these.You can limit the range of charted data by simply drawing a rectangle over the time period you are interested in with the mouse. You can also request a candlestick chart. Charting: right click on an individual stock and click “History” to receive an instant 10-year chart for the stock in question showing both stock prices and trade volume.I would say, however, that the list is in need of more filtering options (see my wish list below) Once you have your list, sorting by column headers can be a great help. JStock will now download price changes in real-time for these, and will even chart. If your stock is somehow not showing you can add it to the database individually. Also note that you can select the country of interest and download the entire list of stocks for that country, which is very convenient. Although it is pre-populated when you launch the program, note that you can delete stocks from the list and add just the ones you find relevant. How it works: the main “Real Time Info” tab displays a list of stocks that you can monitor.This may not sound too exciting if you just have one or two stocks that you are interested in, but JStock will do this for hundreds of stocks that you might want to monitor and define in its database. For example, you can tell JStock to alert you by SMS if it finds a stock price that’s at the highest its been for the past 6 months. This program will let you view/download stock data in real time and define portfolios of stocks and monitor their activity and profit/loss but the WOW-inducing feature is the ability for users to define their own “Stock Indicators” and to have the program automatically deliver alerts based on these. JStock is multiplatform (Windows/Linux/Mac/Solaris). The second is a built-in chat function designed to enable JStock users to communicate with each other and share information. Two features stand out, however, the first is Alerts delivery (SMS, Email, or in the system tray) that are based on user-created “Stock Indicators”. It can also set-up stock portfolios where it records all transactions and calculates profit or loss. It can create a database of stocks and download and deliver data and charts for these in real time for more than 20 world markets and going back up to 10 years. JStock is a free, open source stock-monitoring software.
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