X

Smartstock

By Gyarsi Systems Network Free Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Oct 3, 2010

India's stock market is growing into a global force, and investors and market watchers around the world follow it. Gyarsi Systems Network's Smartstock is the first software of its kind, a free investment-planning tool focused on opportunities in India. It can analyze investments, trends, and markets to help advise you in investing, growth, and new prospects in international business.

Smartstock requires the Microsoft .NET framework and an Internet connection for logging in to access Gyarsi's forums and to retrieve up-to-date financial information. It's got a fairly standard tabbed interface, with taskbar items for logging in, managing portfolios, equity, technical analysis, and backtesting. The Help button only leads to the developer's online forum, which we found disappointing. The program is balky and hangs a bit in its transition between views, and it occasionally displayed cryptic error messages, such as when we clicked Login to attempt to create an account. We received a message stating "Form that is not a top-level form cannot be displayed as a modal dialog box. Remove the form from any parent form before calling showDialog." When we clicked the Backtesting button, a dialog informed us that "A column named 'name' already belongs to this Data Table." However, the backtesting page did appear after we clicked OK. We also successfully created a new portfolio. This program's tools generally function as claimed, though it worked much better in Windows XP than in Windows 7, so there may be some bugs.

Smartstock is free, so it's worth taking a look at if you're interested in checking out Indian securities or just seeing how they perform. However, investors might want to look for a more robust platform. As a cutting-edge investment tool for a critical emerging market, it's not quite ready to go public.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1.0.16

Version 1.0.16 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

General

Date Added January 27, 2010
Version 1.0.16

Operating Systems

Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 10,320
Downloads Last Week 0
Report Software

Related Software

HomeBank logo

HomeBank

Free
HomeBank
Bank of America for Windows 10 logo

Bank of America for Windows 10

Free
Bank of America for Windows 10
FNB Banking App for Windows 10 logo

FNB Banking App for Windows 10

Free
FNB Banking App for Windows 10
Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Deluxe logo

Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Deluxe

Update
Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Deluxe

User Reviews

2.6/5
5 User Votes
5 Star
4 Star
3 Star
2 Star
1 Star

Developer's Description

Smartstock is based on a time-tested algorithm developed by Robert Lichello in the 1970s. Of course Lichello had to perform all his calculations by hand - a tedious chore to be sure. Over the years, Lichello's algorithm has been improved significantly. We have made some improvisation over the algorithm by introducing some technical parameters. which has improved performance. Smartstock not only implements the very latest improvements, but also harnesses the power of your computer and the Internet to make managing your investments a breeze. Lichello came up with a simple, but brilliant, system based on stock market volatility. With the proliferation of the computer, and the Internet, hundreds of calculations can now be performed in a second. Furthermore stocks are much more volatile today, and the Internet brings an unprecedented amount of financial information right to your desktop. These key developments have combined with Lichello's algorithm to usher in a system that can significantly increase your investment returns. Smartstock is a money-management investing technique that incrementally adjusts exposure to a stock holding based on the price action of that stock. It relies strictly on mathematical calculations and does not take any subjective matter, like news or company fundamentals, into account when generating trade advice. The strategy considers a "portfolio holding" to have two components at all times. The equity portion and the cash portion. Over time, both components are fluid, and will constantly change based on trades executed. As a stock rises, incremental shares are sold and directed to the cash reserve. On significant price dips, the cash reserve is strategically deployed back into that same stock. It is programmed to buy-low and sell-high, systematically trading around a core holding in an equity. The software itself acts as a personal trade advisor, generating automatic buy and sell signals through use of mathematic formulas. It features portfolio management capabilities as well as the ability to back-test any stock with a few clicks of the mouse. The software is designed to more effectively manage stocks with a systematic and disciplined method.
Promo image for CNET Shopping

Get the best price on everything

Shop your favorite products and we’ll find the best deal with a single click. Designed to make shopping easier.