Note: Chart Geany is no longer actively maintained.
Chart Geany is a smart, easy to install, easy-to-use, completely free and multi-platform graphical software that has been designed from the offset to act as an intuitive and feature-rich utility for stock market charting and technical analysis.
The software is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface.
The software is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Compatible with stocks, mutual funds, futures, indices.
- Major technical analysis indicators: Simple Moving Average, Exponential Moving Average, MACD, Fast and Slow Stochastics, Money Flow Index, Rate of Change, Relative Strength Index, Williams %R, Bollinger Bands, Parabolic SAR, Average Directional Index, Aroon, Commodity Channel Index, Standard Deviation, Momentum, Directional Movement Index and Average True Range.
- CGScript, an ISO C99 dialect, which allows you to design custom technical indicators and objects from scratch.
- Line, Bar, Candle and Trend Candle (Heikin-Ashi) charts.
- Stock ticker.
- Time-frames: Day, Week, Month and Year.
- Microsoft Excel xls files can be imported through the Quote Importer.
- Easy download of quotes from Yahoo Finance, Alpha Vantage or IEX.
- Spreadsheet-like data manager and quote browser.
- Portfolio manager for multiple portfolios and multiple currencies.
- Single file local storage. Work offline if needed.
- Indicator templates with import and export
- Statistics and fundamental data if available from the data feed
- Pence to pounds converter for London Stock Exchange listed symbols
- Tab-based graphical user interface. You can manage the charts the same way you manage the pages of your web browser.
- Drawing and text objects: Labels, Trailing Text (a label attached to specific date), Horizontal Lines, Vertical Lines, Trend Lines and Fibonacci Retracements.
- Linear or semi-logarithmic price scaling.
- Zoom In and Zoom out.
- Comma Separated Values (CSV) files can be imported through the Quote Importer. Most common formats are supported like Metastock 7, Metastock 8 and AMI Broker.
- One click screen shots for charts.
- Periodical price updates, along with chart refresh. Must be available from the data feed
- Self-contained software, independent from other software back-ends like Java Virtual Machine or .NET Framework.
Website: chart-geany.sourceforge.io
Support: Documentation
Developer: Lucas Tsatiris
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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