September 2006 Archives

[Industry groups performance grid]

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*Kirk Report trading tips http://www.thekirkreport.com/trading_tips/index.html

*Apps for testing web services Web Service Studio http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/tools/web_svc/default.aspx http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=65a1d4ea-0f7a-41bd-8494-e916ebc4159c Fiddler http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/

[Intraday high volume gainers]
[Gapping up today]
[Stock rating]
[Complete list of ETFs]
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[Wicked lasers]
[Job search engine]
[What to do when bumped from a flight]

[TradeWeapon .Net trading platform]
Real time equity trading platform and technical analysis framework. This is a framework for developing automated trading systems. End-Of-Day scanning, real time scanning. Direct Brokerage connectivity. Advanced indicator creation.

[RiskQuantify]
Risk Quantify aims to provide a comprehensive framework for the trading, risk analysis and back office management of financial derivatives. Initially the system will support FX, Interest Rate and Equity-based products.

[Open-Trader]
openTrade is an open-source trading platform which will support trading of forex, futures and other commodities.

[Merchant of Venice]
Venice is a stock market trading program that supports portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading and genetic programming.

[EclipseTrader]
Stock exchange analysis system, featuring shares pricing watch, intraday and history charts with technical analysis indicators, level II/market depth view, news watching, automated trading systems, integrated trading. Based on Eclipse RCP framework.

[iTrade]
Trading system written in Python including Quotes Management, Historical and live data, Import/Export data, Charting, Candlestick, Technical analysis, automated alerts, portfolio management, risk management, and currency exchange.

[MoneyManager]
This is an investment/trading platform targeting individual seasoned investors/traders. It will includes fundamental analysis (very simple in early versions), technical analysis, trading strategy design (back-testing, scanner), and portfolio management.

[ProfitPy]
ProfitPy is a set of libraries and tools for the development, testing, and execution of automated trading systems.

[QuantProject]
A C# library for modeling and backtesting trading strategies. Historical data downloading and validation, account management and Walk Forward Testing are the key features provided, to implement a quantitative approach to financial markets.

[QuantLib]
A quantitative finance C++ library for modeling, pricing, trading, and risk management in real-life. A cross-platform free/open-source tool for derivatives and financial engineering.

[EvoTrader]
EvoTrader is a stock picking platform that utilizes genetic programming to evolve rules for generating stock trading signals.

[PaperTrade]
Paper trading web site which will allow long, short, stop orders, buying and selling of call and put options, and futures trading. Will integrate a journaling system for users to keep track of past trades and reasons for those trades.

[Scalper]
Scalper is a free .NET toolkit for real-time trading built on top of the QuantStudio framework

[Equity Analysis Predictor System]
AI based stock technical analysis system. The aim of the system is to perform standard technical anlaysis on stock prices and volumes and use ANN (Artificial Neural Network) to make entry/exit recommendations.

*WinSnap http://www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap/feature-highlights.html

using System.Net;
using System.IO;
public class TickerQuote
{
  private string ticker;
  private DateTime effective_date;
  public TickerQuote(string t, DateTime dt)
  {
    ticker = t;
    effective_date = dt;
  }
  private string GetTickerAddress()
  {
    DateTime yesterday = effective_date.AddDays(-1);
    return String.Format(
      "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?" +
      "s={0}&" +
      "d={1}&e={2}&f={3}&" +
      "g=d&a={4}&b={5}&c={6}" +
      "&ignore=.csv",
      ticker,
      effective_date.Month - 1,
      effective_date.Day,
      effective_date.Year,
      yesterday.Month - 1, yesterday.Day, yesterday.Year);
  }
  private string GetFileContents(string fileName)
  {
    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fileName))
      return sr.ReadToEnd().ToString();
  }
  public double Price
  {
    get
    {
      string fileName = @"C:\temp\table.csv";
      string addr = GetTickerAddress();
      using (WebClient req = new WebClient())
      {
        req.DownloadFile(addr, fileName);
        string result = GetFileContents(fileName);
        System.IO.File.Delete(fileName);
        //  Get the first line
        char[] separator1 = new char[] { '\n' };
        string[] a = result.Split(separator1);
        string b = a[1];
        //  Get the last value on the line
        char[] separator2 = new char[] { ',' };
        string[] bb = b.Split(separator2);
        string price = bb[bb.Length - 1];
        //  Convert to double
        return double.Parse(price);
      }
    }
  }
}

*How to Avoid Investing Mistakes http://myfidelity.members.fidelity.com/investorsWeekly/enewsfa.jhtml?pageName=LFEAo609env1&service=CREN

Our resident law geek Stewart Rutledge writes in with a handy Gmail tip.

When sending a message, type the name of the recipient you want to appear in your Contacts and then place the email address inside <>. That will auto-add the name to your address book formatted.

For instance, rather than: stewart@example.com in the To: box, use Master Stewart Rutledge, the Wonderful <stewart@example.com>

As a matter of fact, this method seems to work in most email clients (Thunderbird, at least) that auto-add recipients to your address book. Thanks, Stewart! �?" Gina Trapani

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A common mistake for stock market investors is overtrading. Learning to sit and wait is one of the biggest challenges for many.

Jesse Livermore, one of the world's greatest investors, said: "It is never your thinking that makes big money. It's the sitting."

Stocks stair-step their way higher by breaking out of basing patterns, running up and then forming new bases from which they break out. Savvy investors learn how to hang on to leading stocks that go through normal pullbacks rather than sell them.

Beginning investors are often shaken out of winning stocks because they buy incorrectly. You can avoid that by buying a stock within 5% of its buy point in a sound base. Studies of past winners show that stocks breaking out of sound bases on heavy volume rarely retreat more than 8% from the proper buy point.

So buying right will let you sit longer with winners.

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[When to sell]
Brian Shannon on when to sell a position.

There are seven events that should motivate you to sell. These events can be best described as:

• Initial Protective Stop
• Gaps against the prevailing trend
• Price Targets
• Hard Trailing Stops
• RealTick ® Trailing Stops
• Moving Average Crossovers
• Time Stops

[SocialPicks]
SocialPicks is a community where stock investors exchange ideas and track performance of financial bloggers.

[TraderDNA]
TraderDNA Analyzer is an interactive software application that serves as an all-in-one solution for tracking results, journaling, and analyzing your trading performance and system-efficacy. The Analyzer's versatile drag-and-drop interface enables you to customize and construct your own statistics, tables, graphs and visual representations of your trading, and then save your views for later use and report generation.

[Technology Investor]
[MarketWatch]

*HoboCopy http://pluralsight.com/blogs/craig/archive/2006/09/20/38362.aspx

*Mad Money spoof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ISwmG64xCI

*Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2006UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx

*Top-rated financial blogs http://thebuffettblog.blogspot.com http://consumerismcommentary.com http://controlledgreed.com http://cramerwatch.org http://timharford.com/deareconomist http://footnoted.org http://freakonomics.com/blog http://fundalarm.com http://madmoneymachine.com http://pfblogs.com http://randomroger.blogspot.com http://seekingalpha.com> http://stockblogs.com http://10qdetective.blogspot.com http://frontlinethoughts.com

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*Online schedule planner http://backpackit.com/examples/archives/personal/plan_and_organize_a_wedding_or_special_event.php

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