[Chicago-talk] financial charting

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Sat Nov 19 07:20:10 PST 2011


Hi David,

I'll check it out.  Thanks

Jay

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:55 AM, David Mertens <dcmertens.perl at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know how to get Google or Yahoo to do what you want. However,
> making the chart on your own machine should be straight-forward using Perl.
> A recent post for this can be found here:
>
> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/2011/11/graphing-time-based-data-in-perl/
>
> I know that doesn't answer your original question, but if you can't find a
> way to do what you want, maybe this will work as Plan B.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> not a Perl question exactly (although I'd probably implement using Perl).
>>
>> I have some price series data.  (i.e. date and price).  I'd like to chart
>> it against various indices (like the sp500 or Russell, or an individual
>> stock...)
>>
>> What I'd like to do is use yahoo chart or google, but pass them MY data
>> and marry it with their data and produce a graph using their graphing
>> utilities.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest simple ways to do this?
>>
>> I know I can pass ALL the data to google charts api, but it seems crazy
>> to download the data from google, then build all the stuff with my data
>> plus the data I downloaded, just to send it back to the place I got the
>> data from originally.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jay
>>
>>
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