chart -- Stock and commodity price charting and downloading
chart [--options] [symbol...]
Chart is a stock and commodity charting program written in Perl and using the Gtk toolkit.
For a summary of the command line options run chart --help.
Full documentation is provided in the manual:
Info format, can be viewed with Emacs or the stand-alone Info viewer.
HTML, can be viewed from within Chart (Help/Manual menu entry), or with any browser.
The default is to start the Gtk graphical interface, with an optional initial symbol to display. Just a part of a symbol can be given, the same as in the File/Open dialog, so for instance
chart bh
is enough to start on BHP.AX, if that's the only "bh" in the database.
Specify the X display name for Gtk. The default is the DISPLAY environment variable, as usual. This is a standard Gtk option, see the gtk-options man page for others (none of which do much).
Download data for the given symbols, lists, or wildcards instead of running the GUI. For example
chart --download BHP.AX GM
chart --download "*.NZ"
chart --download --all
Wildcards usually have to be quoted to stop the shell expanding them as filenames. On a tty a status line is shown with progress.
The "All" list of all current symbols (ie. non-historical) for download etc.
The "Alerts" list of symbols for download etc.
The "Favourites" list of user symbols for download etc.
Start in the Watchlist dialog, with a selected symbols list, per the options above, or the Favourites list by default. For example
chart --watchlist --all
Run just the scrolling stock ticker display, not the whole GUI. Symbols, lists or wildcards select what to display (in order). For example
chart --ticker BHP.AX --favourites GM "*.NZ"
Print extra messages (to standard output). This is mainly for --download.
Print the program version number and exit.
Print a summary of the command line options and exit.
User extensions (Perl code).
User GUI extensions (Perl code).
User annotations and saved preferences (SQLite database).
Downloaded data (SQLite database).
gtk-options(7), info(1)
http://user42.tuxfamily.org/chart/index.html
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Kevin Ryde
Chart is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
Chart is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Chart; see the file @chartdatadir@/COPYING. Failing that, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
