December 8th, 2010· Fixed fetch of Canadian Equities.
March 31st, 2010· Fixed fetch of Dow Jones Industrial Average...web page had changed. Fixed adding of new equities for Canada & United States....web page had changed.
December 30th, 2009· Fixed Christmas and Boxing Day Holidays for all Markets.
· Fixed error when unchecking equity that had and error in fetching...incorrect settings for enabling of pushbuttons.
November 16th, 2009· Fixed error when setting of active toolbar buttons etc...when switching tabs.
October 25th, 2009· Application upgraded for Snow Leopard..using most recent version of RealBasic and Valentina. Compatible with Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
· Corrected which day the US markets are closed when July 4th is on a weekend.
· Fixed graphing volume scale when y-axis volume numbers are covering the word 'Vol(00)'
July 6th, 2009· Fixed parsing of last trade and change value retrieved from Yahoo for LSE equities.
May 8th, 2009· Fixed parsing of change value retrieved from Yahoo for US equities.
· Search exchanges for equity...UK equities launches uk.fianance.yahoo...Australian equityiesl aunches asx.com...Canadian equities launches GlobeInvestor.com and US equities launches yahoo.finance with the string entered.
March 21st, 2009· Fixed parsing of change value and volume retrieved from Yahoo.
March 18th, 2009· Yahoo web information change required new parsing of information for US equities...most Canadian equities, UK equities and exchanges.
March 10th, 2009· Fixed incorrect reporting of date for Australia and London exchanges....and all other country's date/time formats...when not using Canadian or US international format.
· Fixed problem with mouse not reacting to last row of listbox on 'Equity Portfolio' Tab when vertical scrollbar not present.
February 21st, 2009· Installation now installs correct version of application...many apologies.
· Fixed problem of when two different countries equities having the same company name and graphs are requested.
February 21st, 2009· Reporting of ASX index now includes 52 week Hihg/Low and the day's Trading Range.
· Fixed problem of fetch of history for ASX and FTSE when using the Fetch page 'Fetch History' routine.
February 21st, 2009· Fixed problem when FTSE index or ASX index pages not available.
· Fixed problem if sample database parsing error encountered, to allow launch w/o going through that routine on the second launch. Still working on why this ocurrs only on some installations.
February 12th, 2009· Fixed incorrect parsing of information retrieved from Yahoo...the web page had been altered @ source..
· Adjusted graph to reflect when equity price falls from $$.00 to below $1.00...ie: Nortel (since delisted on the NYSE)
February 12th, 2009· Fixed problem with Sleep and autofetching routine.
January 27th, 2009· New apple-like interface with more appropriately grouped objects.
· Unified menu and pushbuttons when focused on either the Equity Portfolio tab or the Fetch Equities tab or using the Archive Utility.
· Search allows easier movement among search results.
· Editng and adding of equities availalble when fetching.
· User-definable Industry Sectors...up to 25 categories allowed.
· Charting Equities now tracks equities of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
May 10th, 2008· Due to changes at globeinvestor.com, the dividend and yield information for canadian equities are now no longer available for fetching by Charting Equities. It can still be accessed by pressing in the 'info' icon related to that equity to launch that equity's web page.
· The second source for the equity information at Yahoo.Finance, however, does not include canadian preferred share issues, canadian income trusts and some common stock equities such as... Bombardier, Jean Coutu Pharmacies, Shaw, Rogers, Astral Media, Canadian Tire,Empire Company, Brookfield Asset Management and Tech Caminco to name a few....on those occasions Charting Equities will check globeinvestor.com for any available information.
· These equities can still be updated but contain no open, bid or ask prices...and no volume, dividend or yield......when highlighted (selected). When saved these equities contain no daily high and low values. To get and save the daily highs and lows for these equities, use the Updating Utility and fetch their history once the business day has closed.
· When adding new equities, one must check them using the 'question mark' icon to the right of the 'Symbol' entry field.
· Both Yahoo.Finance and globeinvestor.com are used as sources for information and equity data. The Info icon will load the Yahoo page for US equities and the globeinvestor page for Canadian Equities.
· Stochastic Charts accompany each equity's graph when available. These charts indicate when an equity is oversold and overbought. Internet connection required.
February 20th, 2008· Four year histories are saved when equities are added to the database when available.
· Histories for previously saved equities can also be retrieved.
· The TSX and TSX Venture Exchanges have added Family Day,
· the 3rd Monday of February as a holiday on which the markets are closed.
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