Keeping a portfolio on track
Article Abstract:
Investment software can be used to manage a portfolio. Some programs, such as Metastock for Windows and Windows on Wall Street, require investors to have technical analysis abilities and daily data access. Pricetrack from Pricetrack Ltd is a product geared to less active investors. It uses Friday closing data for updates which can be supplied weekly or monthly. The program uses a series of spreadsheets and includes a share price system permitting graphing and manipulation of databases, and a section on reports, in addition to portfolio management.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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Successful cycle riding: technical analysis spends much time trying to spot trends in market cycles
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Traditional methods of financial market cycle identification require historic data and are slow to detect changes in the length of the cycle. Maximum Entropy Spectral analysis (MESA) was launched in 1978 based on advanced mathematics which avoids such problems. A new release of the system can now be used with Microsoft Windows and offers a better quality of display.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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Bed, breakfast and software: with the end of the tax year near, tax planning takes on an extradimension
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Synergy Software has introduced Sharemaster 2Advanced which is part of an investment software package, with a CGT module. It concentrateson the last 10 years of tax legislation and comprises eight main modules. A manual is providedwhich details the basis on which the CGT liability calcuations are made.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1995
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