TAcharting

An application for downloading, plotting and analysing financial data

Features

[x] Supports all (Decimal based) indicators from Ta4j.
[x] Add Strategies and run them on several securities
[x] Yahoo api connection
[x] Import excel and csv files
[x] Stores settings and parameters of indicators permanently
[x] Possibility to add your custom indicator implementation to the application
[x] Load, store and update financial data in SQLlite or custom database

What is TAcharting?

(features may be still under development)

On the one hand the aim of TAcharting is to provide a self contained application for technical analysis that is easy to start and use:

plot financial data from CSV/Excel files
connect with yahoo financial api and request financial data
automatically store data in database
add indicators and save indicator properties
customize indicators
save graph as png
save indicators and financial data as excel/csv

On the other hand TAcharting should stay developer friendly and give you a plurality of possibility to customize, embed or automate:

write your own Indicators and plot them on the chart
write a trading strategy and let it run and plot by TAcharting
write additional Connector to connect the application other data sources
write your own SQLConnector to connect with custom database
write your own SQLPropertiesManager to store indicator parameters in a customized way
embed ChartController or TAChart to support your own application

How to run

TAcharting is a JavaFx(java 1.8) application managed by maven. You have to install git, maven and the jdk1.8+ to build this application on linux or windows (not testet on mac, but it should also work there)
1. Clone repository:

git clone https://github.com/team172011/TAcharting.git
cd TAcharting

2. run maven to create executable jar

mvn package

3. run the generated jar

java -jar target/jfx/app/tacharting-*.jar

How to add custom indicators

Start at the Wiki or take a look at program starting Example

Overview