Merchant of Venice 0.7 beta review

Venice is a stock market trading programme that supports portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading and experi

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Andrew Leppard

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Venice is a stock market trading programme that supports portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading and experimental methods like genetic programming.

Venice runs in a graphical user interface with online help and has full documentation. Venice runs on UNIX, including Mac OS X and Windows.

Here are some key features of "Merchant of Venice":
Charting
Chart Advance/Decline
Chart Bar Chart
Chart Bollinger Bands
Chart Candle Stick
Chart Exponential Moving Average
Chart High-Low
Chart Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)
Chart Momentum
Chart Moving Average
Chart On Balance Volume (OBV)
Chart Open/High/Low/Close/Volume
Chart Point & Figure
Chart Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Chart Standard Deviation
Chart an index of a group of any stocks
Chart custom indicators
Genetic Algorithms & Programming
Use evolutionary computation to tweak buy/sell rules
Use evolutionary computation to evolve new buy/sell rules
Gondola Language
Create custom buy/sell rules for paper trading
List only stocks in tables that meet custom criteria
Display custom indicator results in tables
Graph custom indicators
Internationalisation
Chinese Translation
French Translation
Italian Translation
Polish Translation
Swedish Translation
Online Help
Paper Trading
Automated Paper Trade on buy/sell rules
Automated Paper Trade on family of buy/sell rules
Portfolio Management
Supports multiple portfolios
Portfolios support multiple cash/stock accounts
Chart portfolio value over time
Chart portfolio return over time
Chart any cash account value over time
Chart any share account value over time
Chart number of stocks held over time
Quotes
Access quotes in a HSQLDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database
Import quote files in EzyChart, InsightTrader or MetaStock formats
Import quotes from the Internet (Yahoo Finance)
Sciptable with Jython
Tables
List all quotes on any day
List all quotes for any stocks
Sort stocks by activity, change, volume or quote
List only stocks that meet custom criteria
Display custom indicator results
List intra-day stocks in Watch Screens

What's New in This Release:
Added multi-currency portfolio support (Andrew Leppard, Quentin Bossard)
Added support for currencies with greater than 100 subdivisions, e.g. Kuwaiti dinar which has 1,000 fils per dinar.
Portfolios are now saved as XML files in the user's home directory. This should improve performance when loading and saving portfolios and make them easier to manage (e.g. backup).

Internationalisation:

Catalan translation added (Jordi Pujol).

Tuning:

HSQLDB databases are now stored in binary format and are no longer fully cached in memory. This should improve performance and reduce memory usage.
Charting indicators, such as Bollinger Bands, is now much faster.

Library updates:

HSQLDB V1.8.0.4 from 1.8.0.2
MySQL Connector/J V3.1.12 from 3.1.11.

Bug Fixes:

User drawn lines now scale properly when graph is resized (Mark Hummel).