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1 Introduction

Chart is a stock and commodity price charting program, featuring various display options, data downloading, and user extensibility.

Chart is written in Perl and uses Gtk through the Gtk2-Perl interface. Extensions can be written using Perl. The home page is

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/chart/index.html

1.1 Getting Started

Once you’ve installed Chart (see Installing), getting started is easy. Run chart, and choose File/Open from the menu bar. Enter a symbol, like ‘GM’ (for General Motors USA) and click “New”. The download dialog pops up and gets an initial 5 years data, then the chart is displayed.

The Watchlist is easy too (see Watchlist). Choose Tools/Watchlist from the menu bar, go to the Symbol box, enter a symbol like ‘NAB.AX’ (for National Australia Bank) and press Return. The symbol is added to the list and a latest quote downloaded. Click on “Refresh” to update.

Stock symbols broadly follow Yahoo Finance conventions, which is the exchange symbol plus a suffix, like ‘.L’ for the London Stock Exchange (see Yahoo Finance). But Chart is not Yahoo specific, other data sources have other suffixes.


Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Kevin Ryde

Chart is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.