Saturday, June 07, 2008

A Dog Run Pic


Though not from my camera, here's a pic of Lela. She road shotgun with me from Emporia to Richmond. A very sweet, loving, and as you can see, photogenically beautiful dog. It was important to her (oh, and to me) that my hand was on her, but she was very relaxed (as were all my charges). Air conditioned comfort and quite is a nice respite for a shelter dog.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do you get the dogs to smile for your photos?

She sure looks happy....

Investors in financials though sure can't be smiling:

Having a look at your spreadsheet - Financials are down almost 25% in 6 months...

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Leisa, with all your extensive experience in business and business software - which charting program do you feel is best?

I have some data series (stock prices) that I want to overlay and scale on the same graph with some non price-data series (market indicators, earnings data, econ data etc...)

I would like to be able to scroll the overlayed chart adjusting the time frame - as well as have the graph update in real-time with incoming price data during market hours.

Excel is too crude.

Most 'basic' stock charting packages to my knowledge (except for the top of the line) won't integrate neatly with non-stock market data - or at least don't make it easy.

Many business software applications don't have good API's or HTTP interfaces...

I thought for sure there would be some free source code of such a program (say one from the Scientific Community which manipulates data series etc...) - but have been frustrated in efforts to find such a program.

Just curious if yourself or perhaps one of your readers has any recommendations for such a charting program (without costing an arm and a leg)?

Thanks

nice...

Leisa♠ said...

This was the photo taken at the Lenoir County SPCA. Not my photo--but it sure looks like she mugged for the camera!

I don't have extensive experience with charting programs, so I'm not much help. MetaStock offers a bunch of data type series beyond stock prices. But they charge for them, and it is not inexpensive. I've been a subscriber to MEtastock for a couple of years. I am not renewing my subscription because I use STockcharts, and I don't need both programs. Metastock has good "experts" that you can overlay. I don't feel like I need that now.

I like StockCharts because I feel like I can manage overviews better--get better summary information. But as it meets, my needs (which are fairly modest), I've not investigated any other options than these two.

I would agree that Excel would be inadequate.