Recommendations for Mac technical analysis/portfolio management software?

[hipspin]

Hello and in anticipation of responses to my question, thanks. I am new to Technical Analysis but I am quickly developing a keen interest in the field. I run a Mac computer and am keen to buy an accurate tech analysis software program that will allow me to trade daily. I have had a look around and at the moment the only company I can see that offers daily or 5 min chart updates is Trendsetter.

If there is anyone out there who has any other suggestions or positive words of advice I would greatly appreciate your input as I am thinking of becoming a member of the Australian Tech Analysis Institute in order to study. So the software program will be an investment and educational tool. Portfolio management would also be advantageous.

All the best and I hope all are enjoying the volatile trading conditions,

Kind regards


Hipspin

 

[tech/a]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

I use Tradeguider for charting
and esignal for data. All Realtime.

There are many

 

[Billyb]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

Hello and in anticipation of responses to my question, thanks. I am new to Technical Analysis but I am quickly developing a keen interest in the field. I run a Mac computer and am keen to buy an accurate tech analysis software program that will allow me to trade daily. I have had a look around and at the moment the only company I can see that offers daily or 5 min chart updates is Trendsetter.

If there is anyone out there who has any other suggestions or positive words of advice I would greatly appreciate your input as I am thinking of becoming a member of the Australian Tech Analysis Institute in order to study. So the software program will be an investment and educational tool. Portfolio management would also be advantageous.

All the best and I hope all are enjoying the volatile trading conditions,

Kind regards


Hipspin

The best charting softwares seem to be Windows only. You may want to consider using that feature of the OS X that allows you to run Windows

 

[pixel]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

The best charting softwares seem to be Windows only. You may want to consider using that feature of the OS X that allows you to run Windows

+1

As much as I gather, the direction into which t/a tools are more likely to be developed is ipods/ ipads/ iphones. As Windows apps can already run on a Mac using any one of Windows emulators, companies won't spend scarce resources on something that might increase their client base by just a few percentage points.

 

[KurwaJegoMac]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

I have a Mac however I use windows based software due to the points outlined above. Your Mac will have bootcamp, which allows you to boot into Windows (if you own a copy)

In my case I use Parallels, which is a program that lets me run a virtualised Windows in parallel to OS X (i.e. I can seamlessly switch between oS X and Windows without needing to reboot).

I run my portfolio management and backtesting through that with no issues.

 

[G-Zilla]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

im a Mac user - not sure how technical you are but to run Windows based charting software you can use a virtual machine software or an emulator of some type like Crossover or WINE.

In any case a good free VM solution is VirtualBox by Oracle - http://www.virtualbox.org/
VirtualBox is worth a try before looking at VMWare or Parallels, I actually like VMFusion better than Parallels although Virtualbox has caught up recently for ease of use and functionality.

Hope that helps.

 

[sammy84]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

Has there been any update in this area?

I have a Mac and use parallels to run Amibroker. Would love to have something which works on Mac and could even be used on my Ipad etc. I'm probably just being wishful.

 

[Timmy]

For TA with a Mac, Investor R/T. http://www.linnsoft.com/index.html

Don't know about iPad.

 

[sammy84]

For TA with a Mac, Investor R/T. http://www.linnsoft.com/index.html

Don't know about iPad.

Thanks Timmy, do you use it?

It doesn't seem to have the apple-esque refinement I was hoping for. A lot of money to be made by anyone who could create a charting program for mac which could be synced with an iPad etc.

 

[Timmy]

Thanks Timmy, do you use it?

Yes. Not on a Mac though. I R/T for Windows.

 

[digler]

I have not used these but what about

Motivewave
http://www.motivewave.com/products/products.htm

and

chartnexus

 

[cardosomaia]

I have been using Mastock for mac and iMastock for iPad with icloud sync.

It's fairly a new software with upgrades being released all the time. I like it.

I think it's worth a look. Pretty cheap but yet a powerful software with great potential

 

[sammy84]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

Has there been any update in this area?

I have a Mac and use parallels to run Amibroker. Would love to have something which works on Mac and could even be used on my Ipad etc. I'm probably just being wishful.

Thought I would revisit this 3.5 years later. I'm about to upgrade to Amibroker 6.0 (forced to so I can continue running the norgate data script).

Anything good for mac yet?

I'm going to give the trial of this a try but already doesn't look customisable enough.

http://www.protrader.com.au

 

[leyy]

Re: Recommendations for respected Mac tech analysis/portfolio management software?

Thought I would revisit this 3.5 years later. I'm about to upgrade to Amibroker 6.0 (forced to so I can continue running the norgate data script).

Anything good for mac yet?

I'm going to give the trial of this a try but already doesn't look customisable enough.

http://www.protrader.com.au

Let us know how you go sammy84, i'd be keen to hear your feedback as I was looking into this too, but never bit the bullet.

cheers
leyy