Hi All,

Probably been asked before, and I did try to search for it but kept getting told to "ask your first question" as this is my first time on the forum, so here it is.....

.... Does a half decent stock charting program exist for Linux ? .....

I've searched and searched and so far have only been able to find JCandle and Qtstalker, but compared to Equis Metastock they just plain suck! (apologies to anyone connected to either!).

I'm not looking for trading software, just a way of taking (e.g.) a CSV file of stock prices, and displaying it as either a OHLC or Candlestick chart.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

A web search turned up several article that appear to have potential:

http://www.junauza.com/2011/10/best-...for-linux.html

http://linuxandfriends.com/jstock-a-...king-software/

http://linuxappfinder.com/businessandfinance/investing

I've not had occasion to use any of the programs mentioned.

Also, check out gnuplot.

Thanks for the replies, and apologies for the slow response. Still struggling to find a decent alternative to Metastock. Gnuplot is just way too basic - bit like comparing a doodle sketch to a Michelangelo (no offence meant). JStock looks nice but only does stocks and has no option to manually edit the data. Same with EclipseTrader and Grism, the latter only doing line charts. JCandle has basically no configurability and the import from CSV function does nothing . Strewth !. The only one with potential seems to be Chart Geany.....still super basic compared to Metastock but at least I can import date and create a chart and manipulate it. Also had another look at Qtstalker and got a bit further with it than last time, but it draws bearish candlesticks wrongly IMO. So seems like Chart Geany is the only option, unless someone knows how to get Metastock to run under Wine - I've tried a couple of times but can't get it to work . Anyway, thanks again for the suggestions.

I know it's late to add to this thread, but I just heard in this week's episode of the Sunday Morning Linux Review that KMyMoney has some good stock market tools. The relevant portion comes at about the 20-minute mark in this episode.

I have no personal experience with it.

Thanks for the info and links frank. I didn't know about the Sunday Morning Linux Review, so that's a new one for me to check out . Just tried installing kmymoney on my windows 7 machine and it crashed on startup with a missing .dll file - I'll try it on my Linux system later today. I think maybe it's more of a general home finance software package than the pure charting package I'm after, but I appreciate the thought and effort . Qtstalker is the way I'm likely to go at this point, despite my initial misgivings ('it ain't Equis Metastock'). It's lightweight and super quick and draws nice clean candlecharts. Can't do side-by-side charts, which would be nice, but very easy to flip between two that are open for comparisons. So I'll mark this as solved. Thanks again for all the suggestions

Good luck and glad I could help.

Let us know what your final choice is. It might help out someone else who has a similar question.