Merchant of Venice

Has anybody been using this software Merchant of Venice. I downloaded and trying. It has some draw backs but lot scanning/screening/charting fecilities all in one and free with source code in java
http://mov.sourceforge.net/
If any one has used latest version kindly share your opinion.

As addon to my earlier post, after using a little, I found the SW, more useful. Still I have to explore all features. It has screening and charting facilities. We can provide custom formulas for screening. Screened scrips listed in the table.
For example, screening with formula
lvg(close, 0) > lvg(close, -1) and avg(volume, 30, 0) > 100000
will screen all records of the last date for stocks with price increase and average volume for last 30 days is more than 100000.
By double clicking listed stocks in the table, we get graphs.
However, it had some drawbacks
Importing data doesn't accept records with - and &. I have written to developer. He agreed to include that.
However one more thing, I faced importing data to mysql in windows didn't work. This I have written to developer. I am to try with internal database.
I thought this may be of use to members.

hi gandhi,

i hv just downloaded and installed the Venice....
it was all folders n subfolders n many more...
i dont know where to start..
not very much used to this type of stuff, but i love to experiment....
in other programs, we hv a .EXE file ... on double clicking the program runs....

gandhi, can you post a write-up so that i see something on the screen..

thanks in advance.
murthymsr

Dear Mr.Murthymsr
The software to download is venice-0.7beta.exe for windows. Unfortunately my laptop stopped working. For me as I said it works in Linux with mysql database. In windows XP, I could install it. minimum requirement you shold have java 1.5 either jre or jdk. It should work with internal database or external database like mysql. in windows installation was simple. As any software it asks simple questions and default is OK. For help manual is there. You can mail me in my id [email protected] for any help. As soon as my laptop is OK, I will see and come back to you.

Hi Murthy and lvgandhi

I installed and imported EOD data for one stock from YAHOO which was faily easy. Plotted Graph also with the help of graph by giving symbol name in YAHOO format Works quite fast. AD Ratio Graph was also plotted. I didnot bother to see the folders and sub folders. Just went to file>>imports>>End Of Day Quotes and gave source and date range.
Intraday quote is also provided but could not use it after hours.

It is in beta stage. As it is open source it will be good if developed into release version. Features are yet limited and interface is barebones which is quite expected. Another advantage is that it gave sourcecode for linux installation. Though rpm or deb files would have been ok. Need to compile on specific system which not many would be able to do. I try to see if linux version is working on my system. If so it will be a good addition in future to Linux os. And if it is written in c or c++ we may also contribute to it either by ideas, feature list , bugs tracking, removing bugs and coding for new feature. of cource all free of cost.

Good for testing purpose.

Pankaj

Mr.Jha,
It is written in java. hence it is platform independant. i have installed it in my laptop with debian sid. I have mysql database. The site mentioned by me gives binary for linux, windows and mac os in addition to java source code with ant files. I have downloaded src, windows and linux versions binary also. In linux version an user can run the shell script after untarring the binary tar file if already JAVA_HOME env variable is set. It creates Venice folder in $HOME. I could use mysql database in linux. In windows I installed it. But I could not connect to mysql in windows from venice. Before I could try internal database, my laptop stopped working. However developer responded immediately to my questions. One main benefit I found stock screening and charting combined in a single free software. Though Fcharts does this, screening is only for a single rule. In venice we can have any number of rules. But charting is only for daily no weekly or monthly. Inbuilt Indicators or less. After my laptop is recovered I will be back with my further exp.

Dear lvgandhi,

I have recently downloaded Merchant of Venice ....If possible Can you please Guide me how to use it with a walk thru example ...

Thank you

Rajendra Chaudhary