Posted in Financial, Programming/Software on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
I finished building and packaging up the stock viewer program, the “Champion Stock Chart Viewer”, and it’s now available for sale.
Check it out here: Champion-Analytics.com
Posted in Financial, Programming/Software on Jan 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Financial, Programming/Software on Jan 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
I wrote an application to harvest historical stock data from Yahoo. It’s an interesting piece of homebrew and has allowed me to build up a database of 3 gigabytes of historical data so far using SQL Server Express 2008. Since Yahoo! data is specifically “for non-commercial use” I can’t exactly sell the database to anyone, [...]
Posted in Financial on Jan 19th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve never been particularly interested in forex trading, always focusing more on stocks and options, but it seems to be about time to become an expert. Don’t be surprised if in the near future you see me posting about books I’ve read, resources I’ve found, and the huge sums of money that I’ve acquired and [...]
Posted in Financial on Jan 13th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m reading the book “Bear Market Investing Strategies“by Harry D. Schultz. It’s a few years old (written in 2002), but there’s a wonderful quote in the book that definitely applies to current governmental tinkering with the economy:
“Economics can be government influenced in a mild way, without huge damage. But if governments try to control them [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, Writing/Publishing on Jan 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Because one wasn’t enough…
I’ve filed the papers and now have a new company: Champion Analytics, Inc.
It will primarily be a company focused on investment analysis, publishing investment guides, and developing software for data analysis. I have a lot of ideas in the works, and filing the papers to make it real is a significant motivator, [...]
Posted in Financial on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
On August 7th, I posted about how Washington Mutual was trying to fail. It looks like they did, and in a hurry:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/ap_on_bi_ge/washington_mutual_future
Posted in Financial on Aug 7th, 2008 No Comments »
So up until today I had a Washington Mutual credit card. I’ve had it since around
2000, when it was issued by Providian to an irresponsible kid with well below
average credit. Well, this kid behaved and maintained good standing on his $500
credit card well enough that 8 years later it was a $10,500 credit [...]
Posted in Financial, Web Design on Nov 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
October was the best month I’ve had yet for Adsense earnings, posting 36% over the previous two months’ averages. Although that amount still is just barely enough to cover hosting and domain expenses and is less than 2% of living expenses, it’s still encouraging to see such an increase.
Since traffic has only increased by 16%, [...]
Posted in Financial on Oct 12th, 2007 No Comments »
I recently bought a copy of Peachtree By Sage Pro Accounting 2007, extremely on sale because 2008 was just about to be released. Since then I’ve been entering the scattered check receipts, Excel worksheets, Paypal transactions, and miscellaneous purchases from the past year. I don’t know what surprised me more — what a [...]