[Chicago-talk] stock charts with perl

matt boex chimcentral at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 5 17:13:36 CDT 2004


Ed,
 
Do you have an example of a script that can produce a chart of open, high, low, close data?  i have searched for some time through cpan and google with no luck.  i have found Finance::Shares but it seems to be overkill and very difficult to figure out.  it also creates postscript files.
 
i am at the point that i am considering building my own.  any pointers towards doing this as in modules to start with?
 
matt
 
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:21:00PM -0800, matt boex wrote:
> any opinion as to what modules i should use to build stock charts with.  
> i am looking to build open, high, low, close, with possibly volume at the > bottom.

I've had good success with GD::Graph [1] at a previous job, and at my current
job we've used Chart [2], which has a somewhat cleaner look. Unfortunately
(as of 3 months ago) GD::Graph appeared to be more actively maintained than
Chart, since we submitted a patch for some legend placement options, and 
never heard back. Also GD::Graph has better support for TrueType fonts. 
While it's name doesn't reflect it, Chart uses GD just as GD::Graph does, 
but in a perhaps more elegant way. Chart comes with some very nice PDF
documentation however, which is pretty useful for this sort of module.

//Ed

[1] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?GD::Graph
[2] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Chart


Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:21:00PM -0800, matt boex wrote:
> any opinion as to what modules i should use to build stock charts with. 
> i am looking to build open, high, low, close, with possibly volume at the 
> bottom.

I've had good success with GD::Graph [1] at a previous job, and at my current
job we've used Chart [2], which has a somewhat cleaner look. Unfortunately
(as of 3 months ago) GD::Graph appeared to be more actively maintained than
Chart, since we submitted a patch for some legend placement options, and 
never heard back. Also GD::Graph has better support for TrueType fonts. 
While it's name doesn't reflect it, Chart uses GD just as GD::Graph does, 
but in a perhaps more elegant way. Chart comes with some very nice PDF
documentation however, which is pretty useful for this sort of module.

//Ed

[1] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?GD::Graph
[2] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Chart

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