Merchant of Venice For Linux

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).