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KLSE Stock History Outdated for Yahoo!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The history stock data from KLSE is outdated for quite some time.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