How to setup stock alert for JStock Android

Recently, I received quite a number of emails, asking on how to setup stock alert for JStock Android. I'm going to show you an example on how to do that.

I wish to receive stock alert, when PUBLIC BANK BHD rises above 15.

Here are the detailed steps.

1. Go to watchlist page.
2. Press menu, select Stock alert.
3. Type 15 under Rise Above column. Remember to press SAVE.
4. Press menu, select Settings. Enable Alert.

Congratulation! It works right now :)

Please note that, to avoid annoying you, once you receive stock alert on that day, you will only receive the same stock alert in next day. We will not buzz you with multiple same stock alerts within a single day.

Hope this helps! If not, let's raise your doubt in https://www.facebook.com/JStockFreeStockMarketSoftware

JStock Android supports SMA and EMA moving average on history chart

I'm happy to announce that, JStock Android supports SMA and EMA moving average on history chart. You are free to specific number of days for SMA or EMA.

Of course, JStock Android still remain simple to use, beautiful yet powerful :)

Bug fixed for India stock market (NSE)

Bug fixed for India stock market (NSE). We provide Google Finance as backup feed for India stock market (NSE). Kindly download latest version of JStock - Free Stock Market Software 1.0.7d and JStock Android 0.86 to get the fix.

Download JStock - Free Stock Market Software
Download JStock Android

India stock market is down

Few days ago, India stock market for JStock - Free Stock Market Software and JStock Android is down.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvbAQYi48ilrTLqT21JSPMrRDn1G;_ylv=3?qid=20130704114641AAMDvN0

We are now working toward to integrate Google Finance as our data source for India stock market. Please stay tune :) (Only NSE stock market will be supported)

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Bugs & Feature Requests for JStock Android

•   We DO NOT encourage users to perform bugs reporting and feature requests through review. It is difficult for us to communicate with users through review.

•   Users are encouraged to perform bugs reporting and feature requests through app feedback form. App feedback form is found under app menu.

•   Users are encouraged to perform bugs reporting and feature requests through https://www.facebook.com/JStockFreeStockMarketSoftware

•   You can know what we are working on by visiting https://trello.com/board/jstock-android/510be554bd237b3c6a000ca3

☺ If you are happy with the app, don't forget to review the app with 5 stars.

Note that, your privacy is extremely important to us. If you do not wish to receive any reply, you can choose not to disclose your email address.

Volume info had been added in Watchlist

Due to popular demand, we decide to add in Volume information in Watchlist. This new 0.83 release also come with fix on random app crashing.

JStock Android Official Release

Grab an amazing copy from

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.yccheok.jstock.gui

You are free to try out selected features, and decide to upgrade to Premium later if you like the software. We do not want your $ if you are not absolutely happy :)

JStock for Android Development Progress

Kindly subscribe to http://www.jstock.co mailing list. You will be informed once JStock for Android is ready.

2013 Development Plan for JStock

Better JXTreeTable for Portfolio

Currently, we are using JXTreeTable from SwingX 0.9.6 as portfolio presentation. There is a glitch in term of user experience. Sometimes, you need to perform double click, instead of single click to select a row. 

Let's look at the following situation.

If the mouse is hover the stock name, performing single click will select the row.

However, if the mouse is not hover the stock name, user needs to perform double click in order to select the row. This is not a correct behavior. We expect single click will do the job.

I guess this is bug in SwingX 0.9.6. To fix the problem, we need to grab SwingX 0.9.6 source code, and perform necessary source code fixes on SwingX 0.9.6.

Able to perform figures drawing on stock history chart

For technical analysis users, they would love to perform the following figures drawing on stock history chart

• Draw lines with selected color, line thickness
• Draw circles with selected color, line thickness
• Draw text with selected color, font size, font attribute and font type

We can either use JHotDraw (http://jstock.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jstock/JHotDraw/), or build up our very own simple figures drawing framework.

We need good programmers to take charge of these challenging tasks. If you are interested in contributing to this open source project, do drop me an email yccheok [at] yahoo dot com

Android development

Progress is slow lately. In view of that, we will to hire a full time programmer around mid of March, to speed up the development. At this moment, we decide to make Android ported JStock as a closed source project. (http://www.jstock.co/) We will reveal more information in coming months.

We just won :)

After 2 weeks of close race, we finally won the vote poll! UFO : AI had us there for a couple of days. But, with supports from various parties, we manage to won the race by 23 votes.

I am really very much grateful for your support. In no particular order, I want to express my highest gratitude to the following people, bloggers, forum owners, site owners and communities.

• All my friends and family members, who contribute their votes
• All the people behind JStock
• KLSE TALK - 歪歪理财记事本
• Personal Finance Money Tips Malaysia: KCLau.com
• 1-million-dollar-blog Personal Finance and Investment Blog
• Making Passive Income, Calvin Yeo
• 投资论坛 Investalks
• 股票专区 - 投资理财 - 佳礼网络社区综合论坛
• Stock Exchange - Lowyat.NET
• TheFinance.sg
• 投资 · Investment
• WebCamp KL
• OSDC.my
• StartupMalaysia.org
• Silicon Valley Comes to Malaysia
• traderji.com
• trade2win.com
• Anyone whom I don't know, but contributes a vote

In the next coming month, we are going to see JStock project being listed at the top of the SourceForge.net front page for the entire of December.

However, this is not something which I'm excited about. What I'm really excited about is, there will be a significant number of users and contributors attracted to JStock Open Source Project. With them, a healthy community is going to be formed around this Open Source Project.

One day, even the original team lefts JStock, the project will still be alive and evolve. There will always be new people coming in, to take care of and grow the project.

Together, we are just getting started...

Thank you,

Cheok

Please Show Your Full Support to JStock by Voting

Dear all, 

2 more days the voting poll will be closed. Please show your full support to JStock by voting. Thank you!

http://twtpoll.com/l2cil8

To learn why voting is such important to JStock, please read http://jstock.sourceforge.net/personal-appeal.html

Vote for JStock - Free Stock Market Software for SourceForge project of the month

It's an honor to let you know that, JStock (http://jstock.sourceforge.net/) is on the ballot for the December SourceForge project of the month.

The winner of this vote gets their project listed at the top of the SourceForge.net front page for the entirety of December, a blog post and podcast on the SourceForge blog, and a badge on the project summary page.

I would be very appreciated, if you can dedicate your priceless vote to

"JStock - Free Stock Market Software"

The poll is at http://twtpoll.com/l2cil8

Thanks a lot!

Thank You All!

For the first time ever, JStock project is being featured at the front page of SourceForge.

With all your continuous support, this makes JStock as one of the featured projects.

Thank you all!

1.0.6u With Critical Bugfix

Hi all, we found that there is a critical bug in old JStock software.

JStock overwrote sell transactions' sell dates to buy dates mistakenly. Affected users may need to fix by editing their sell transactions' dates 1 by 1.

Kindly download latest version 1.0.6u to fix the problem from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html 

We are truly sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Less is more

We had simplified presentation view of Portfolio Management. We only present information which is really matter to you. Try the latest version of JStock, to see how we make your stock investment fun and easy. http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Need help to assembly back DingBot

Hello.

My name is Cheok and I am from Malaysia.


I owned a DingBot (http://www.theoldrobots.com/dingbot.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Na__KjdHPg) 20+ back years ago. Just that recently, I want to gift it to my small niece. However, I realize its DC motor not working anymore, due to loosen of wire. Hence, I dissemble the entire robot, tighten the wire. The DC motor is working right now. 


Unfortunately, I have no idea how to put it back anymore! The design of its mechanical is much more sophisticated than I expected! (Yah, It is patented! - http://www.theoldrobots.com/images49/Dingbot-1.pdf)

Here is the characteristics of this robot 

1) He will move forward for a while 

2) He will then stop, turn his head left right several times. 

3) While his head is turning, there is sound being emitted. (Interesting, I don't find any sound chip in the robot. I was wondering how does it emit the sound using mechanical way?)

4) Just in case he hits obstacle, he will turn around (I am not quite remember he is turning left or right) 

Here are the components where I cannot figure out how to put them together, so that the moving-stop-head turning-moving mechanism works. 
http://i.imgur.com/nLQW8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/v2XhK.jpg

Here are its other components. I think I shouldn't have problem to put up rest of others. 

http://i.imgur.com/O4Kdh.jpg 
http://i.imgur.com/qWboB.jpg 

If you own this robot, help is very much appreciated, to teach me how to assembly back the robot. I really wish to pass down my childhood favorite toy to my niece. 

Or, possible for you to help me spread this message to appropriate community? As I do not mix around much with robot hobbyist community :)

Thanks a lot!

My contact is yccheok at yahoo dot com

JStock development and bug fixing activities will be temporary halted

Dear all, I would like to let you know that, in coming period, JStock development and bug fixing activities will be halted temporary. This is because I need to concentrate in porting JStock desktop platform to Android's.

We expect JStock for Android will be ready in next 3 months. Once this is done, development and bug fixing activities on desktop platform will be continued.

Thank you for your understanding :)

JStock 1.0.6p has been released

For this round release, it comes with several very interesting features

• Able to perform sorting on buy records and sell records.
• Performing migration from XML to CSV. This enables us to integrate JStock into Android and iPhone/iPad platform. We had gone through a very intensive testing, and expect that the migration process is seamless and flawless. However, should you encounter any problem, please feedback through this forum thread :  https://sourceforge.net/projects/jstock/forums/forum/723854/topic/5321140
• Bug fixed on Mac OSX.

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

JStock 1.0.6o has been released

Thanks to http://www.klse.info. By working closely with them, we manage to do a quick fix on Malaysia stock history problem. Feel free to grab a copy from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Malaysia Stock History Server is down temporary

Malaysia Stock History Server is down temporary. Fixing is still in progress. Sorry for any inconvenient caused.

JStock 1.0.6n has been released

We do what we say. Now, you can enjoy MACD scanning through Stock Indicator Editor.

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

Or you would like to learn more regarding this newly added feature through http://jstock.sourceforge.net/help_stock_indicator_editor.html#macd

We hope you love JStock, as much as we love to develop JStock for you :)

MACD feature will be released in few more days

I know quite a number of you are looking forward to have MACD feature in Stock Indicator Editor. :)

No worry. The code is ready

http://jstock.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jstock/jstock/rev/4e5a9a3b6237

http://jstock.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jstock/jstock/rev/d2e31bab341b

I just need some final touch up before I release to you.

JStock loves you all!

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
• ???
• ???

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

JStock 1.0.6d - Fixes corrupted feed data

JStock 1.0.6d has been released, to fix corrupted feed data.

Slow Development Progress of JStock - Why?

Recently, you may notice that, JStock is having slow development progress. The latest release of JStock 1.0.6c only comes with 2 bug fixes.

This is because I am trying to port a subset of JStock's features into Android platform. Since I am pretty new to Android, this may take some time :)

JStock loves New Zealand :)

JStock 1.0.6b is now supporting New Zealand stock market. :)

Feel free to grab a fresh baked copy (and free!) from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Setup Git to Use WinMerge

It is rather cumbersome to setup WinMerge for Git.

Here are the summarize steps.

1. Add the following line to C:\Users\yccheok\.profile

export TERM=msys

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

2. Add the following line to C:\Users\yccheok\.gitconfig

[diff]

tool = diffmerge

[difftool "diffmerge"]

cmd = "C:/Progra~1/WinMerge/WinMergeU.exe" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" | cat

To test out, type the following command.

git difftool HEAD A.java

It seems that using Git under Windows is still not a pleasant task yet.

Yahoo! Hasn't Fixed Data Inaccuracy Problem

It is already 2 months since I contact Yahoo! Customer Support. However, data inaccuracy still occur in KLSE stock market.

I try to contact them again, by filling up Yahoo! Finance Data Inaccuracy Form. Hopefully they will fix it this time. :)

JStock 1.0.6 is ready

JStock 1.0.6 is ready with the following changes.

Feature: Supports stock merging and splitting.

Feature: Supports stock buy and sell units in floating point.

Feature: Investment flow chart able to show individual stock activity.

Feature: Able to restore previous position and size of JStock.

Feature: Easy way to add new stock which is not in offline database.

Feature: Able to choose between 1 or 2 columns stock input suggestion list.

Feature: We allow user to view history, even though offline database is not ready.

Bugfix: Portfolio page will be updated even though it is not being viewed.

Bugfix: Avoid empty record in dividend chart.

Bugfix: Change Italy stock index from S&P/MIB to FTSE MIB.

Bugfix: Able to delete multiple figures from indicator editor.

Bugfix: Remove splash screen for better simplicity user experience.

Please grab the latest copy of JStock from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

KLSE Stock History Outdated for Yahoo! Finance

The history stock data from KLSE is outdated for quite some time. Here is the reply from Yahoo! Customer Support.

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Finance.

Before I go into addressing your concern, I'd like to first apologize
for the delay in my responding to your inquiry. We are committed to
answering your questions as quickly and accurately as possible. However,
we are currently receiving unusually high volumes which caused the
delayed response.

I appreciate that you took the time to report this missing 1295.KL
historical data. I know it can be frustrating to encounter information
that is not up-to-date. We strive to keep our information as timely as
possible.

The information you are asking about is being pulled into Yahoo! Finance
from a third-party provider. We want to resolve the issue as quickly as
possible; however, the turn-around time can vary depending on both the
problem and the provider. In addition, there may be some lag time in
between when the provider corrects the information in their system and
the updated information displays on Yahoo! Finance.

Again, I apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Finance.

Hopefully Yahoo! team is able to resolve this issue very soon.

Yahoo Finance History Data Out Dated

PPB always stay to be one of my favorite stocks. However, this is not the reason I want to blog about. What I want to point out is, Yahoo! Finance history data is having inaccuracy problem recently.

See the below screen shoot.

The latest history date is Jan 17, 2011. It seems that the data is out-dated for more than a month. (Today date is Feb 27, 2011).

If this issue affects you, perhaps you want to contact Yahoo! through Yahoo! Finance Data Inaccuracy Form (Hopefully they are willing to give a hand to you)

Critical bug fix for JStock

JStock 1.0.5y had been released, with a critical bug fix.

There is change in stock server policy. Stock server may return empty stock symbol for certain stocks, especially for United State stock market. We will ignore those empty stock symbols, and replace them with our own offline stock database's.

JStock 1.0.5x had been released (I Am Sorry! 1.0.6 Is Not Ready Yet!)

JStock 1.0.5x had been released, which has 6 features and 5 bugs fixed.

Feature: Stock Watchlist will able to load result saved from Stock Indicator Scanner.

Feature: Able to use left/right arrow key to move around yellow information boxes of Investment Flow Chart.

Feature: Make the stock purchase process smoother, by doesn't require user to press ENTER explicitly.

Feature: Automatic switch to the particular page, when user tries to activate a portfolio or watchlist.

Feature: Having a confirmation dialog box, to avoid user from clicking uninstall icon accidentally.

Feature: Indicator scanning completion progress will be displayed at status bar.

Bugfix: Able to suspend and resume network activity in PortfolioManagementJPanel when not in used, so that network resource is being preserved.

Bugfix: Adjust combo box popup width, so that horizontal scrollbar will not displayed.

Bugfix: Instead of limiting currency decimal places to 2 only, we allow them to float between 2 to 3, to avoid from losing precision.

Bugfix: Prevent user from uploading Stock Watchlist file with too many stocks to cloud server.

Bugfix: Under dividend dialog box, the stock selection through combo box will be sorted in alphabetical order.

You may download latest JStock 1.0.5x from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html. After upgrade, your personal data will be preserved.

Please write us Ratings and Reviews after you have used JStock, to help us in making JStock a better software.

(We apologize for the delay of version 1.0.6, as there are quite a number of technical hurdles which prevent us from moving too fast.)

JStock 1.0.6 Planned Features Survey

Next version JStock 1.0.6 is under heavy development. YOU will determine how upcoming JStock 1.0.6 looks like. Tell us what do you think, by answering only 2 survey questions. Thank you.

Take the survey right now!

We had migrated from CVS to Mercurial

Hello all,

Previously, we are using CVS, as a software development tools to manage our source code.

Today, we are happy to let you know that, we had success to migrate all our code base, from CVS to Mercurial. There are 2 major reasons why we want to do so.

• We want to be able to commit and compare during development work, even we do not have internet connection.
• We want to make branching and merging easier. By making them easier, we can have a stable trunk, and several experimental features being implemented parallel. Experimental features shall be implemented in branch before merging into default trunk.

For historical reason, the CVS repositories will always be there. Just that, it will not receive any future commit. All the future commit work, will be going into Mercurial.

http://jstock.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jstock/jstock/rev/aca91878090e

With all these great software development tools in place, we hope to produce a higher quality software to make you happy :)

JStock migrates from CVS to Mercurial

In order to improve our development process, JStock has been migrated from legacy CVS to a modern Mercurial.

We expect this may take some time, and all development work will be halted temporary.

http://jstock.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jstock/

JStock 1.0.5s is ready

Another exciting release of JStock, comes with improved portfolio display, online stock database, improved charting and many bug fixes.

Get a copy from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

What are we busy on recently?

We are now working on the next release of JStock.

One of the key features will be, able to add new IPO stocks easily through Stock Database.

As you type, JStock will connect to the online Stock Database, and prompt you for the matched stocks. This will be extremely useful, while you unable to find a stock in your offline Stock Database.

Why don't we have this feature in Stock Watchlist?

This is because reading from online Stock Database, will be much slower than reading from offline Stock Database. This especially true, for those users behind low Internet bandwidth connection.

A user friendly and responsive application, is always our high priority. :)

中文版网站 (Chinese version web site)

我们推出了中文版网站给中国 JStock 用户了 : http://jstock.sourceforge.net/zh/

(We had released Chinese version web site for China JStock users : http://jstock.sourceforge.net/zh/)

1.0.5n had been released quietly

1.0.5n had been released, with China stock market being supported. However, we tend not to make any publicity among China users, as our Chinese version web site is still in progress.

China Stock Market Support Development Progress

It had been a quite July. Yes. We are busy working on to support China Stock Market. They are in very good progress. Here is our initial work in supporting various input method for China users. 汉语拼音 (PinYin), 中文 (Chinese) and Stock code.

JStock 能说中文了

新 JStock 1.0.5m 能说中文了。

欢迎下载 http://jstock.sourceforge.net

There are no new release for this June???

I hope not. As I am still *BUSY* commiting all the code changes.

Stay tune. I hope we can make a release, at least before end of this June.

Look Mum! We Have Another New JStock Release!

New JStock - Free Stock Market Software 1.0.5L Released

Feature : User may have multiple watchlists. Categorize among high growth stocks and dividend gained stocks made easy.

Many bugs fixed as well.

If you are interested, you may download from http://jstock.sourceforge.net

It has been a quiet month for JStock

Yes. It has been a quiet month for JStock. There are NO new release for this April!

Instead, we are currently planning out a new feature for JStock. We want to enable users to draw various figures (Circle, rectangle, line...) on the top of current charting.

We also want to have a feature, so that with a single button click, user may publish their drawn charts to the public.

Our initial plan is to make use of existing JHotDraw, to speed up the development work. However, after some discussion with JHotDraw's team, we realize the technical barrier is rather high.

See our discussion with JHotDraw's team :

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jhotdraw/forums/forum/39887/topic/3657046
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jhotdraw/forums/forum/39887/topic/3687321

We gone through all the available Java 2D Drawing Framework list. http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open-source-structured-graphics-libraries-in-java

However, none of them fit into our requirement.

Sadly to say, we may need to code this feature from scratch, instead of re-using code from others.

This also means you have to wait for longer period, to enjoy the above released feature.

Meanwhile, if you have small enhancement request at this mean time, you may send us the request through forum : https://sourceforge.net/projects/jstock/forums/forum/723854

We will see whether we are able to slot it into our schedule ;)

Survey Result on JStock

Around February 2010 time, we conducted a simple survey across JStock users.

97% Users Feel that JStock is an Easy to Use Software

This pretty inline with we our very initial objective of JStock.

Make Your Stock Investment Fun and Easy

Here is the summary of our survey, take a look.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics?hl=en_GB&formkey=dEd1VTVwSEFTMHhsM0F2MEttWmZUbmc6MA

Of course, we want to thank you to all the users who participate in this survey. You had helped us to understand you better. Thank You!

Feel Free to Try Out Our New Help System

A good help system, will be an add-on bonus for a piece of software. Feel free to try out our very new Online Help System : http://jstock.sourceforge.net/help.html

Critical Bug Fixed

Bugfix: Critical bug fixed, when color changed options is being enabled, the entire Real-Time Info tab will freeze. (#2968754) (#2970454)

We apologize for any inconvenient caused by this bug.

The bug fixed version can be downloaded from http://jstock.sourceforge.net

JStock Helps You to Buy Low Sell High

JStock 1.0.5i is ready to be downloaded. This times, we make a few improvement.


In order for me to Buy Low Sell High, inspecting the lowest price and the highest price within N periods is what I do usually. When the stock price nears 1 year highest, perhaps it is the best time to sell. Or, when the stock price nears 1 year lowest, perhaps it is the best time to sell. Current improved charting feature enables me to do so in an easy way.



Sometimes, user has his very own preference email other than GMail.

Hence, we let user to choose ANY email address to receive stock alert message. User still required to provide his own GMail account information, as GMail SMTP (a server used for sending emails) is the only stable server we know so far.

Feel free to grab a copy of this software from http://jstock.sourceforge.net

Genting starts to move in downward trend

Genting starts to move in downward trend, with its short term moving average starts to break through long term moving average.

My average purchasing price is 6.85, which I consider as a bad entry point.

Chance for me to lower down my purchasing price is coming soon. Yeah!

Can you help us to make JStock a better software?

Participate in The Survey

The JStock team wants to THANK YOU for the integral role you play in making the software thrive.

With the idea of continuous improvement in mind, we want to know more about you, our user.

Your survey responses will help us further understand the features of the software you like most.

We know you’re busy, so this survey will only take a minute. Or two. Maybe three… AT MOST.

Pre-Chinese New Year Release - 1.0.5h

JStock 1.0.5h had been released, with massive improvement on charting side.

Kindly try it out.

Wish everyone have a handsome gain before Chinese New Year. I hope that JStock will provide little help :)

Investment Flow Chart

Here is the comment we received from one of our beloved end users.

My big problem now is to find the transaction history of a stock. If I enter BHP purchase details, then that shows just fine on the screen. When I then sell the stock, the details of the BUY disappear. How do I recall them?

We decide to come out : Investment Flow Chart


Do you like it?

* Note : This is an unreleased feature yet.

We Want a Better Charting

Yes. We all know that, JStock's charting is pretty primitive. (At least for current moment)

We value you as our free software user. Hence, we work quite hard, to improve the user experience of charting.

In next release of JStock, we are going to have a new charting feature.

Real-Time Mouse Tracing

This means, as you move your mouse along the chart, a small blue ball will be sliding along the chart line. A small semi-transparent windows will be sliding along, to show you the detailed information.



The above is the screen shoot of early snapshot. We are now working hard, to polish it up.


During this period, we would like to hear your comment on this feature.

• Do you like the yellow color window?
• Do you like the blue small ball?
• Do you like the font size?
• ...

Leave your comment, or drop us an email at yccheok at yahoo dot com

Thank you very much! We hope you will continue enjoy using JStock.

German Likes JStock Too

German likes JStock too

http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Software-Tipp-JStock-4974794.html

Can JStock Speak Chinese?

This is our wish!

We want JStock able to speak all languages other than English. Due to the technical difficulties, we will have to postpond this plan till 2010.

New Year Release?

Is a shame that after release 1.0.5f, we still have unfinished feature yet.

Let's go back to what we plan on 1.0.5d. Can we finish all the below features before we step over to new year 2010?

Let's wait and see.

• Better User Defined Stock Symbol Feature (Done)

• Better Transaction Fee Calculation

• Support of Brazil Stock Market (Done)

• Having Alert Sound Feature (Done)

• Having Fast Stochastics Indicator

• Able to Purchase Stock through Indicator Scan Result (Done)

• Bug Fixing on Internet Connections Problem under Some Linux

1.0.5d Is Here

JStock 1.0.5d had been released by today. (Sorry, it may not tally with initial release plan, due to tight schedule)

There are several highlights :

Feature: Is my dividend earning increased from year to year? Is Microsoft dividend payout decreased from year to year? JStock will help you the answer all the dividend questions.

Visit here for more info.

Feature: Enable user to specific symbol in user defined database. Instead of typing code "6012.KL" which is difficult to be memorized. You may choose to enter symbol "MAXIS".

Visit here for more info.

Feature: Pressing ESC, will enable user to deselect table in Real-Time Info, Stock Indicator Scanner and Portfolio Management.

Feature: Added "JStock Home" menu.

Feature: Right-click and buy stocks from the Stock Indicator Scanner.

Bugfix: Incorrect Hong Kong Database. Click on the small bottom right computer icon, will resolve the issue.

Bugfix: Wrong information for Spain Market database. Click on the small bottom right computer icon, will resolve the issue.

Like it? Just download from here

Upcoming 1.0.5d Release Plan

Here is our plan for the upcoming 1.0.5d :-

• Better User Defined Stock Symbol Feature

Current, for newly listed Maxis stock, I have to key in "6012.KL". How I wish I could just key in "Maxis"

• Better Transaction Fee Calculation

OK. I just received complains. Not every country is having Stamp Duty, Broker Fee, Clearing Fee.

• Support of Brazil Stock Market

• Having Alert Sound Feature

• Having Fast Stochastics Indicator

• Able to Purchase Stock through Indicator Scan Result

• Bug Fixing on Internet Connections Problem under Some Linux

If you feel that there are some features missing out from the list. Let us know. We will try to fit in, if there is enough room space ;)

Let JStock Floating On The Cloud

Yes. With new 1.0.5b, you may access JStock settings from anytime and anywhere. Truely cloud computing ;) (Opps, another buzz term)

You may download new JStock, from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Note that, bugs on UK portfolio issues and Technical Analysis also solved.

1.0.5 Is Coming To Town

JStock 1.0.5 had been released by today. Come with comphrehensive Technical Analysis feature.

Don't forget to check out my newly written Technical Analysis tutorial

Stock investment is always being fun and simple. Life is good ;)

Early Snapshot of 1.0.5

Version 1.0.5 is planning to be released before end of October, starting to have support on Technical Analysis. For beginner on Technical Analysis, need not to worry. JStock is designed in the way, to provide you a gentle and smooth introduction, toward the usage of Technical Analysis in your investment strategy.

Here is some early screen shoot. Currently, we only plan to release 3 common used Technical Analysis Indicators - Moving Average, RSI and CCI.

Easy to use Indicator Installation System. Install useful indicators with just a single button click. These indicators may suggest you on the best buying time and best selling time.

Easy to use Technical Analysis Charting. Let you have a throughout study, on your favorite stock.

Upcoming JStock Release

The upcoming JStock release will emphasize on Technical Analysis.

We are planning to release the following features in the next coming release :

• Ability to build complex indicators such as CCI
• Able to install ready-to-use indicators from JStock server
• Technical Analysis on Charting
• Ability to able to save entire JStock configuration into cloud, so that you will able to use JStock either from Home or Work

Here is the early snapshot of upcoming release.

For technical analysis lover, stay tune ;)

Interviewed by SourceForge

Interviewed by SourceForge : https://sourceforge.net/community/jstock-software-aids-international-investing/

Another JStock Software Review

Another software review on JStock :

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/16/windows/productivity/finance/jstock-manage-portfolio-get-free-sms-alerts-for-stocks.html

New 1.0.4j Release - Many New Features and Bug Fixes

New JStock 1.0.4j had been released, with the following highlight :

1. Multiple Portfolios - You may share the fun of JStock with your love and family, by creating individual portfolios for every family members.
2. Fully Support Excel/CSV Format - You able to save/open portfolio, indicator scan result and stock history.
3. Options to Limit Number of SMS - You able to select how many SMS you want to receive per day.
4. Fast and Reliable New Malaysia Stock Server

And many bug fixes...

Feel free to download from http://jstock.sourceforge.net

JStock Software Review

JStock receives a very positive software review (5/5 rating) from freewaregenius.

Take a look on this review article

New website for JStock is launched

A completely new design for JStock website is launched.

http://jstock.sourceforge.net

Feel free to take a visit ;)

New 1.0.4i Release - Fix On Network Speed

In previous version of JStock, there is a possibility that you turn on JStock for 2~3 days, it may eventually slow down your whole computer network.

Here come the fix :

Able to update stock information in blazing fast speed, without slowing down your computer network.

We highly recommence you to upgrade to this version, to reduce the burden of your computer network.

Donation. Anyone?

Currently, JStock is having the latest release 1.0.4h-bugfix.

We do plan to release another feature "Able to save JStock files into cloud (#2833216)".

Isn't great, when you go to office, you may use JStock to open up the portfolio, which is being added at home yesterday night?

We need donation for this feature.

Please visit http://jstock.sourceforge.net/faq.html#donation for how your donation is going to be used.

New 1.0.4g Release - Fix On Malaysia Stock Market

An emergency release for Malaysia Stock Market lover :p

JStock 1.0.4g - 2009-08-04
Displaying history for index (#2831881)
Bugfix: Not able to connect to KLSE data (#2831804)
Bugfix: Fall Below and Rise Above false alarm (#2826327)