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Portfolio Management Software for Individuals

by Karma on July 21, 2010

Apart from those mentioned here, many software from Directory of Trade Data Analysis Software also have excellent portfolio design and optimization capabilities.

  1. Wealth-Lab Developer A very good strategy testing and optimizing engine
  2. Palisade Integrated set of risk and decision analysis programs
  3. High Growth Stock Equities selection and performance monitor
  4. GreenSherpa Complete personal finance management
  5. Hoadley Excellent portfolio design and analysis tools
  6. Infiniti Analytics Advanced portfolio construction and analysis tools
  7. Ockham Investment research across the spectrum of financial instruments
  8. XRM Global Associate of Ockham Research
  9. Portfolio Monkey For portfolio risk analysis
  10. Stockalicious For portfolio performance analysis
  11. Zacks For investment research

For Post-trade Analysis

  1. Adaptrade (MSA)
  2. OTrader

For Beginners

  1. Jstock Open source
  2. MProfit
  3. InvestPlus
  4. AceStock http://www.mechcad.net/products/acestock/
  5. BeanCounter http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/beancounter.html

Related article: Directory of Portfolio Analytics Services for Fund Managers

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The Stock Market Game- trading simulators

by Karma on July 20, 2010

The Best

  1. TT Trainer TT Trainer is not a canned simulation. The exchanges are real. The products are real. Price feeds and market depth are real – and live within milliseconds.
  2. Cymborg is a simulation engine that mirrors live trading using real-time market data, and a realistic fill engine.

Good For Beginners

  1. WallStreet Survivor http://wallstreetsurvivor.com/
  2. TradingSim http://www.tradingsim.com/
  3. ChartGame http://chartgame.com/
  4. TurTrades http://www.turtrades.com/ [click to continue…]
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Directory of Statistical Software

by Karma on July 20, 2010

  1. BATS Software Software discussed in the book “Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis”.
  2. Bayes Linear Predictor Software [B/D] allows complete a priori and diagnostic analysis of bayes linear statistical problems. Software and documentation free to download.
  3. CurveExpert Comprehensive curve fitting system for Windows – downloadable shareware version
  4. Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive (ELSA) A central repository for experimental software and algorithms that have econometric applications.
  5. Econometrics Toolbox for MATLAB: by James P. LeSage, over 350 functions. Includes a 350 page manual in either postscript or PDF formats. [click to continue…]
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Directory of Portfolio Analytics Services for Fund Managers

by Karma on July 19, 2010

Here we will maintain directory of portfolio analytics services for Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Private Banks, Prime Brokers, Pension Funds, Wealth Managers and more… This will be helpful for aspiring Risk Managers as well to keep up with trends in the industry. The list is categorized by the primary area a company specializes and will be updated regularly.

Courtesy http://www.iearnings.com for the basic list.

Risk Management

  1. AIM-TO http://www.aim-to.com/  risk management
  2. AXIOM SL http://www.axiomsl.com/solutions.html
  3. BiTA Risk http://www.cor-fs.com/et.cfm?eid=1054
  4. FinAnalytica http://www.finanalytica.com/
  5. Financial Risk Group http://www.frgrisk.com/
  6. FRS Global http://www.frsglobal.com/
  7. LucidRisk http://www.lucidrisk.com/about.html
  8. Panopticon http://www.panopticon.com/index.php
  9. Riskelia http://www.riskelia.com/
  10. QuantFactors http://www.quantfactors.com/
  11. Quantal http://www.quantal.com/
  12. RiskMetrics Group http://www.riskmetrics.com/
  13. RiskSpan http://www.riskspan.com/
  14. VPD http://www.vpd.biz/
  15. RaiserPartner http://www.raisepartner.com
  16. Savitar Consulting www.savitarconsulting.com/ [click to continue…]
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Sources for Indian macroeconomic and fundamental data

by Karma July 16, 2010

Government Sources: Ministry of Finance Economic and financial data reports RBI External commercial borrowings, also for Balance of Payment (BOP) and Handbook of statistics on Indian Economy Ministry of Statistics GDP of India, also for Index of Industrial Production (IIP) Ministry of Commerce and Industry For export and import data Office of Economic Advisor Wholesale [...]

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Directory of Trade Data Analysis Software

by Karma July 16, 2010

Reference Article: Technical Analysis (Charting) Software Directory Trade Data includes last sale, last size and volume of each transaction. It is considered most useful tool to study price behavior and patterns. Please note that ‘analysis’ alone is of no use until the premise found during analysis can be profitably implemented. The Best: NinjaTrader- www.ninjatrader.com Wealth-Lab [...]

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Technical Analysis (Charting) Software Directory

by Karma July 14, 2010

Reference Article: Directory of Trade Data Analysis Software. The Best: MultiCharts- www.multicharts.net/ Amibroker- http://amibroker.com/ AnalyzerXL- http://www.analyzerxl.com/

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Stock Scanners for Indian Stocks

by Karma July 2, 2010

We’ll try maintain a directory here of all stock scanners/filters available for free. Rupeeking (Technical): http://www.rupeeking.com/stock-scans Buzzing Stocks(Technical): http://www.buzzingstocks.com/in/search.pl asKuber(Technical): http://www.askkuber.com/IndianStock/IndianStockScreener ICICI Search(Fundamental): http://content.icicidirect.com/research/customsearch.asp EquityMaster(Fundamental): http://www.equitymaster.com/research-it/company-info/search/internal.asp ProfitIndicators (Technical) http://www.profitindicators.com/ Mudraa(Basic Technical): http://www.mudraa.com/ (somewhat spammy) Good widgets For blogs/website: http://www.finalaya.com/Widgets.aspx http://www.appuonline.com/gadgets.html

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Free source of historical price data and heatmaps

by Karma June 29, 2010

We love nonprofit and humble projects; so here comes a TTF Member to offer free price data for any market. Data refers to historical prices End-Of-Day (EOD) or Intraday Data, and also real-time stock quotes of certain instruments. The data is available in graphical from too as Technical Analysis Charts and Volume Profile Charts. Any [...]

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