Investment tracking application?

taxpayer · 11-29-2008, 11:24 PM

I'm hoping to find a linux application that keeps track of stock and mutual fund investments. In a primitive way I could do this on a spreadsheet, but a useful application would download prices, and simplify recording of dividends, calculation of losses, etc. Right now I'm using a DOS program from about 1990, which runs in dosbox (and doesn't download anything), but there really oughta be a better way to do this.

Anyone here using linux to track investments? How do you do it?

win32sux · 11-30-2008, 12:37 AM

I remember for my MIS course they made us build an Excel spreadsheet which did all this portfolio management stuff. It would use the Web query feature to download the latest stock values. I didn't consider it primitive, I actually thought it was bad-ass. I'm sure you can do the same with OpenOffice.org on GNU/Linux. This is the type of thing that spreadsheets excel at (no pun intended). That said, if I was bent on using a specialized application for this (as you seem to be), I'd probably start by browsing through the Investment category at freshmeat.net.

ErV · 11-30-2008, 05:12 AM

KMoney and (AFAIK) GNU Cash allows to track some of your money, but I'm not sure that it is what you are looking for.