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Here are a couple screenshots of the stock charting application I’ve been working on (click to enlarge):

As you can see, I still have some minor layout issues to sort out as the graph is resized, but that’s easy enough.

So far, the main features include:

- Line, Bar, and Candlestick charts
- Download of historical stock data from Yahoo! or Google finance.
- Importing of historical stock data stored in a CSV file.
- Saving a chart as an image or copying an image of the chart to the clipboard for pasting into another application, such as Microsoft Word.
- Printing and print preview.
- Changing graph colors.
- In addition to the specific time period buttons shown (1 month, 2 months, 2 years, etc.), you can also use pick an arbitrary time period to show. If you like 41-day stock charts you can use 41-day stock charts.

Features I plan to add before release:

- Display of 5, 10, and 20-day moving average.
- Display of Stochastic indicators.
- Display of Moving average convergence-divergence (MACD).

The program also has the ability to read historical data from the price database that the stock data importer brings data into.  Since that’s a private database, you probably won’t see the button on the public release.