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Submitted by alex_b on Fri, 2006-12-15 23:34
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with lots of graphs - I would like to know which graphing library you are planning to use and how you think you will interface it.

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hmm, well i'm currently

crick - Mon, 2006-12-18 08:51

hmm, well i'm currently working on a modified version of the stockapi.module and stock.module which i plan on being able to generate my own graphs but I haven't reached that point yet. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to manage all the stock data. do you have any thoughts on how one would go about converting the numbers to a graph? I'm a self taught amateur wannabe website maker, haha so my progress is a little slow.


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A couple of possibilities

mjolley - Wed, 2006-12-20 12:44

Hello, new here, nice to meet you.

I found this site recently: http://trading-shim.org/

I haven't looked into it very much, but it could be promising.

This is a Linux program that sucks data out of Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation and databases it. It's written in C++, but could probably be done in PHP too. Or, I guess it could be used as-is and configured to insert tables into the Drupal database. You could also keep uing Yahoo! for the data source and translate the database code into PHP.

Another idea I had was to use MetaTrader as a DDE server. I don't know if there's a way to use DDE on Linux though.

As for charting, I haven't found any PHP code specifically for stock-style charts with indicators, but it must be out there somewhere. I'd also want to be able to write custom indicators like with MetaTrader. Things I've found that might possibly work include phpplot, ChartDirector, and jpgraph. I think one of these is non-free, but I think they all at least do candle charts. It might also make sense to look for software written in Java and Flash and stuff.


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