I didn’t know how to describe this properly but I found a fascinating site at http://www.gummy-stuff.org/

This site has all sorts of data which show all sorts of fascinating and interesting things to do with the stock markets. The spreadsheets are great, you can use them to do all sorts of stuff… you can do things like download financial data from Yahoo and draw all sorts of graphs, run simulations and generally tweak to your hearts content. I got lost in this site for hours downloading and playing around with all the fascinating things.. running models and generating buy/sell signals from calculations. The site is a great find for anyone who loves to tinker with Excel and investing and best of all, the owner of this site has made everything FREE!!! Fantastic!

I just found a free program which allows you to keep a trading journal for free. I’ve been looking for something like this and it looks great. However, I have just tried to import a spreadsheet of some of my earlier trades on a trading account and it failed… but then again, I didn’t read the instructions all that carefully.

For those who mind find this useful, visit here

http://www.tradelogger.net/

A weekend of freebies.. there is a free opensource charting package called Aiotrade. It’s widely used and fantastic and best of all… free! Give it a try, use it to develop your strategies. You can set it up to use Yahoo as a datafeed (via HTTP) but it can refresh the data every few seconds thereby giving you a free realtime charting package… see the following link to see how to add the FTSE and DOW charts (you can of course adapt it to whatever you want).. click here

The software is open source meaning that it is always being developed.. current version as I write is 1.0.3a and is available here http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/humaitrader/aiotrade-bin-1.0.3a.zip

If you want to learn more about the software, it’s official page is here http://aiotrade.com/