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COMMERCIAL: Free Evaluation copy of Stock Charting Tool for PC/LINUX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Jun 8 00:21:19 1995
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 04:39:04 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Henry Chen <ctor@shell.portal.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Free Evaluation copy of Stock Charting Tool for PC/LINUX
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: commercial, free evaluation, stock charting
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
BB Stock Tool V1.3.1 is available for PC Linux.
BB Stock Tool is a Powerful Tool for Stock Charting, Technical
Analysis and Portfolio Management. It is based on Motif GUI.
The evaluation version is available via WWW and Anonymous FTP:
WWW: <URL:http://www.portal.com/~ctor/bb.html>
FTP: ftp.portal.com:/pub/ctor
Access via WWW is recommended; it has screen-by-screen introduction on
the features of BB Stock Tool.
BB Stock Tool Features
======================
Analysis:
o Technical Indicators: Stochastics, MACD, Moving Average, etc
o FlexTune: to customize the technical indicators
o Estimate: to preview the indicator with estimated stock price
o Crosshair cursor: easily spot the price level and daily price
o EZ browse: Browse through all charts by clicking single button
o Large view window with scrollbar, analyze and show 400 day data
o Trendline and Trend channel drawing with mouse
Detection:
o Customizable Watch List
o Warning for high trading volume
o Automatic stock split detection
o Alert: show warning signal when stock price reach preset alerts
o Report most active issues of the day
o Report big price movers of the day
Portfolio:
o Extensive portfolio tracking & automatic adjustment for stock split
o Transaction record keeping & commission paid
o Portfolio Tracking: show percentage gain and portfolio report
Database:
o Free Daily quote data at end of each trading day
o Utilities to update historic stock database
o ASCII stock data format
o Context sensitive on-line help
Platform Supported
==================
The BB Stock Tool is available on Sun SPARCstation running either SunOS 4.X
or Solaris 2.X, and on PC running Linux.
Free Evaluation Package Available
=================================
BB Stock Tool evaluation package is available via WWW and anonymous FTP.
To get it via anonymous FTP, type "ftp ftp.portal.com". If you get
error message "ftp.portal.com: unknown host". You need to use a
variation of ftp, such as Iftp, pftp to go through your gateway.
$ Iftp ftp.portal.com
Name: anonymous
Password: your_complete_email_address*
ftp> cd /pub/ctor
ftp> bin
ftp> mget README bb_doc.ps.gz order_form stkdata.tar bb_linux.tar.gz
ftp> quit
*It is optional to provide your complete e-mail address, however, we
recommend that you enter your e-mail address so that we can keep you
posted on newer version and update.
Evaluation package contains all the functionalities of a licensed
version. It comes with up-to-date historic stock quotes on five
stocks (Apple, Bay Network, Cisco, IBM and Sun Microsyststems) and DJ
Industry average for your evaluation.
If you would like to evaluate other stocks on any US Stock Exchange,
you may order it from Falkor Technologies at US$1.00 per stock. Each
historic stock quote contains daily high, low, closing and volume for
about two years.
Evaluation license expires in four weeks. During the evaluation
period, you can get free technical support via e-mail at
ctor@shell.portal.com.
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Henry Chen
Falkor Technologies e-mail: ctor@shell.portal.com
P.O.Box 14201 FAX: +1 510 505-0700
Fremont, CA 94539 URL: http://www.portal.com/~ctor/bb.html
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