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AH-03: Investment
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#1626 Investment Programs Small Programs Disk
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Dalton Mutual Fund Model 2.0 (DALTON)
Dalton Software Associates
$5
is an investment program intended to guide the long-term, conservative
investor in deciding when to switch money between a stock market mutual fund
and a money market mutual fund.
Dow890
Hughes Financial Services
$0
contains the daily price and volume history of the Dow Jones Industrial
Average for 8/89 through 8/90. This data can be plotted and analyzed using the
Total Investor program and is compatible with Symphony 1.1 and greater and
Lotus 1-2-3 releases 2.0 and greater. The date, price high, low, close,
volume, 10 and 30 week moving averages are included.
Qkvalu 1.42
Crenshaw, David ASP
$15
calculates the intrinsic value of commonly traded gold and silver coins and
bars.
Security Analyst 2.50A (SECURAN)
Rosenberger, Donald
$15-$20
performs fundamental balance sheet analysis for stocks. After you input your
data from annual reports such as gross sales, net sales, current assets, and
inventory, the program will compute ratios such as price to earnings, price to
sales, price to dividend, current ratio and profit margin, and more. Market
value is displayed in millions, and error checking for files ability to edit
data.
Stkplot 3.0
C-Soft
$10
will take stock data downloaded from CompuServe or GENIE and plot it to your
screen.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1626
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#3403 Investment #2 Small Programs Disk
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EOM 1.00
Saturn Research
$80
calculates and graphs stock price changes relative to the first trading day of
the month. It demonstrates upward bias and suggests appropriate investment
techniques. Included are 30 months of data for one major index. Other price data
can be imported in ASCII format.
Mutual Fund Organizer (MFO)
Meyer, Rob
$?
aids mutual fund investors in handling their portfolios. Features include
year-end calculation of Capital Gains for income tax purposes, day-to-day
tracking of portfolio value, organization of portfolio into various types of
investments, easy switching between funds, and an optional split in IRA
Portfolio and non-IRA Portfolio. A sample portfolio is included.
Ticker 2.5
Baiocchi, Aldo
$0
is a 50k TSR that you can pop up to find the stock symbol for a company or the
name of a company for a given stock symbol. This could be very handy at times,
but not enough to rate giving up 50k of RAM. We have included it because you
can, instead, load the RECORD file into a file viewer like LIST (disk #1550) or
even into your word processor and use Text Search to find the same pairings.
Tracking Rate Indicator 1.0 (TRI)
Hendrickson, Lief M.
$15
The program tracks price data for securities and calculates a parameter called
the tracking rate indicator, or TRI. This value behaves in a manner similar to
moving averages, weighted averages, and various other methods used to indicate
the trend of price behavior. In general, when daily price changes oppose the
indicated trend, the investor is signaled to make a move either into or out of
the market.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3403
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#4048 Investment #3 Small Programs Disk
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Econometric Stock Market Forecasting Models (ECON)
DC Econometrics
$40
forecasts S&P 500, T bond and T bill interest rates, and inflation. You enter
monthly data and get econometric predictions for the next year and asset
allocation calculations that tell you how much of each asset to hold with
conservative and aggressive strategies. You can play What if games. Historical
forecasts are provided for 1971 through 1991.
Investment Withdrawal 1.0 (INVEST) (08-93 CD)
Fishback, Peter L.
$10
shows the effect of inflation and taxes on withdrawals from an
investment fund. You select the percent of income earned to be withdrawn
and the program will determine the amount which must be withdrawn
monthly to maintain your purchasing power.
Long vs. Short Term Investment Analyzer (INVANA)
Leithauser, David
$25
helps you decide between committing to a long term investment at a fixed
interest rate or a short term investment.
P2Q-Con
Loveall, Peter
$10
converts stock quotes from Prodigy to the format required by Quicken 5.0. You
need to have a printer redirect program to work with this, such as PrinDir on
disk #195. Quicken for Windows is also supported.
Ticker 2.4 (TICKR)
Abbey, Leonard
$0
creates scripts for automated downloading of up to 100 quotes from CompuServe's
BASICQUOTE with Procomm. It calculates individual or overall gain or loss as of
current time.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4048
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Bond-Tech's Bond Calculator 1.0 [BONDCALC] (09-93 CD)
Bond-Tech, Inc.
$52
#12442
computes statistics for notes, bonds, money markets, odd coupons, and more.
Computations include price, yield, yield equivalents, modified duration,
convexity, horizon returns, dollar extensions, and more.
CoINFil 1.3nt
Rosack, Ed P.
$35
#4492
is a COmparative Investment aNalysis with FILtered data. This analysis program
predicts trends of an investment's total yield based on past price data and
dividends.
Fourier transform is used, based on frequency analysis and backtesting to remove
noisy data from sample prices. Smoothed data predicts an investment's yield
within a group. The highest yielding investment is recommended. Backtesting
derives program parameters, and results of the program's strategy are compared
to a buy-and-hold approach. Requires 512K RAM.
DowCAST
UltraVision
$25
#4561
forecasts the closing of Dow Jones Industrials, S&P 500, T-Bills, silver, and
Japanese Yen. It predicts closing values for one day, a week, a month or one
trading year. The program includes charting, forecasting, inference engine
with rule base, investment advice and investment tracking modules.
Capital Gainz 3.2 (10-93 CD)
Cohen, David Lee ASP
$33
#27550 [3 disks]
is an investment tracking program for the small investor who accumulates
shares in Mutual Funds and Dividend Reinvestment Plans over a period of time.
It lets you determine a security's total return for a given period of time;
easily sell a number of shares that were gained over time; sell shares using
an assortment of methods such as last-in/last-out, maximize gains/minimize
losses, and average price (Mutual Funds only); see the results of a specific
sale and of selling a number of shares using different selling procedures
without committing the transaction. It accounts for Money Market funds and
offers portfolio and broker options, and allows up to 999,999,999 shares.
Other features include a price history table which flags highs and lows and
displays distributions and average price; an allocation display and report
which breaks down your portfolio by amount per security type; Schedule B and D
reports, similar to tax forms; the ability to subtotal a portfolio report by
broker/investment company; support for up to 999 portfolios; a Price Type
Lookup Table; and much more. Requires 512K and a hard disk.
ChartPro
Rettger, David W.
$15-$25
#27200/2435
creates daily, High-Low-Close, bar charts of various investment vehicles using
high resolution, color EGA graphics. Other analysis charts include simple moving
averages, exponential moving averages, displaced moving averages, parabolic
time/price study, on-balance volume, relative strength, and momentum
calculations. A data-entry module makes it easy to input the raw data and save
it to disk.
PC-Stock
Overton, Charles
$?
#27200/144
is a general purpose stock trend analysis program. It was developed with ease
of