Stock Tools Home Page

Welcome to the Stock Tools home page. This project started quite a while ago, and never really got off to much of a start. Some day, I hope to have more free time to devote to it. In the mean time, though, it remains vapor ware. The goals of this project are:

Provide individual investors and investment clubs with the tools they need to make sound buy and sell decisions regarding their securities portfolios. Most stock analysis software is aimed at finding a "trading system", i.e., a system to buy and sell stocks over a very limited period of time. Our software aims to help investors make good long-term (5 years or more) investment decisions.
Provide a well-engineered, free alternative to expensive analysis tools. Tools for stock analysis are generally licensed to individuals rather than investment clubs. As a result, only a few members spend the money to get the tools, and the rest sit by the sidelines. We'd like all members of the club to participate, which can only happen with free software.
Promote education about the stock market and investing. All of the initial developers of these tools are also active members of investement clubs. We believe that education about investing is a vital part of the mission of these clubs. These tools will be designed to facilitate learning about stock analysis. In addition, development of these tools provides the individuals involved with the development of them with an education of our own.
Have Fun! We also believe investing and investor education should be fun.

As the project continues to develop, we may add additional services to the software, such as portfolio management and club accounting. However, those features are for the future. The first generation tools will be aimed squarely at basic analysis. One of the goals of this project is to accept input in the .ssg file format used by the National Association of Investors Corporation (“NAIC”) for their Stock Selection Guide (SSG).

If this project's goals match with your own, and you're willing to commit to assisting the project, we'd love additional volunteers. Please go to the project page (listed below), and contact the project with your offer of assistance. If you can program, great. If not, there are lots of other jobs that also need doing, and you're welcome to take on one (or more) of those.

This software will be released under the GNU public license for software.

This project is hosted at , a wonderful site devoted to all varieties of open-source software. Come visit our sourceforge project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/stocktools/. If you appreciate projects like this, please consider giving a donation to SourceForge to help them provide this service.

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