Upcoming Development Plan for JStock

Recently, JStock project receives quite a number of constructive suggestions from users. We would like draft out upcoming development plan for JStock.

• Better visibility for chart trend line color. I understand it is quite a bad taste, to choose yellow color for trend line and white color for background. We shall fix the used color for trend line.
• Enhancement over Stock Indicator Editor. The basic functionality of indicator editor is there. However, it is still not easy to build certain common used indicators, using current available tools. This requires enhancements too.
• This is our favorite. We shall start to support Android platform.

Please bear with us as all these works take time. If you would like to support all these works, do consider code contribution, or some monetary donations.

JStock 1.0.6j has been released, with robust cloud storage

JStock 1.0.6j has been released, with robust cloud storage. We make full use of Google Doc, to store your very personal data. Please review our new privacy policy - http://jstock.sourceforge.net/privacy.html

Do not forget to write a positive product review for JStock, to provide encouragement to JStock development team :)

Feel free to grab a fresh baked copy of JStock from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Migrating cloud storage from Google App Engine to Google Doc

After researching for a while, we decide to launch the following development activity, in order to solve the problem http://yccheok.blogspot.com/2011/11/cloud-storage-is-temporary-unavailable.html

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=202896&atid=983421

User may continue to enjoy cloud storage feature, with the additional enhancement.

• No more cloud storage downtime, we do not host the server to store user data. We let Google Doc storage to store user data.
• No more privacy issues, as data will be stored in user's Google Doc storage, not ours.

Development is still in progress. Stay tune. :)

Cloud Storage is temporary unavailable!

UPDATE (15 January 2012) : We are now working out the solution to overcome this problem. For how our solution work, please refer to http://yccheok.blogspot.com/2012/01/migrating-cloud-storage-from-google-app.html

All the while, JStock's Cloud Storage feature is provided as FREE OF CHARGE. (Free as in free beer, and free as in freedom too).

However, due to the new pricing scheme introduced by Google recently, JStock's cloud storage will be temporary unavailable.

Under new pricing scheme, free quota offered by Google, will quickly consumed away by JStock users from all around the world, within few hours!!!

The below screen shoot explains what is going on.

As you can see, under old pricing scheme offered by Google, JStock's Cloud Storage service can run free of charge, within a single day, on Google server.

However, under new pricing scheme, this is how it looks like just after a few hours.

Currently, we are still figuring out, how we can make this cloud storage feature FREE always.

• Switching to another service provider? But which service provider does provide free cloud storage, for an open source project?
• Monetary support from JStock users? http://jstock.sourceforge.net/donation.html
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Till now, we deeply apologize for the unavailability of cloud storage feature!

For temporary workaround, you may import and your data in Microsoft Excel format or CSV format as shown below. Just go to File -> Save as...

Besides import and export using Microsoft Excel/ CSV format, you may also perform backup, by perform copying operation on .jstock folder as described here : http://jstock.sourceforge.net/help_install_upgrade.html#upgrade-windows

JStock 1.0.6g has been released, with fix on Malaysia history data feed

History data feed sponsored by http://www.klse.info/. With this, we had overcame Yahoo! history data feed problem for Malaysia market.

Thank you for KLSE.INFO sponsorship!

World stock markets are having down trend right now. However, there are no reason to be fear, if we learn from this wise man.

Buy American. I am.

JStock 1.0.6e had been released, by showing LOVE to German and Taiwan Chinese

Thanks to our wonderful friend, Stefan Angrick from Germany. Now, JStock supports German language, and Traditional Chinese language.

Grab a fresh baked copy from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Early Snapshot of jstock-android Development

Here is the early snapshot of Android version JStock :-

Currently, I only plan to port over Portfolio Management feature from Desktop version JStock to Android version JStock.

This is because, I realize there a quite a number of free and good Stock Market related apps out there. For example, Bloomberg for Smartphone (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bloomberg.android&hl=en)

However, I feel that their portfolio management feature is not as comprehensive as JStock's. That's where I try to make jstock-android fill in the gap. :)

Currently, jstock-android is under active development. You are welcomed to participate in it.

https://github.com/yccheok/jstock-android