Stox is a free Macintosh program to download financial quotes from the Internet, and produce charts. It was the first -- and is perhaps the only -- stock charting program to allow you rapid access to stock charts that contain your own notations. To use Stox, you will need an account with Dial/Data (which is not free).
Stox is freeware. It requires Macintosh System 9.1 (or newer)
running on a PowerMac,
and access to the Internet. A color monitor is recommended.
Stox downloads stock, option, mutual fund and index data from
Dial/Data(TM) in New York, using the Internet for access. To download data with
Stox you'll need an account with Dial/Data. This typically costs
between $15 and $40 per month. (Even if you have an existing Dial/Data
account, you will need another for use with Stox.) Currently $40/month
provides unlimited access to the last 12 months data on "all"
stocks and market indices.
Stox produces stock charts, showing open, high, low, close, and
volume. You can place small notes on the charts (this is a surprisingly
useful feature). Historical data can be easily adjusted for stock
splits, and individual datums can be edited by hand.
Stox adheres to Macintosh Interface guidelines. There are no restrictions
on what you name your data files nor where on the disk you place
them. You can copy/move sets of securities between portfolios
using copy and paste. Data files are encoded to save disk space.
Multiple portfolios may be open at once.
Stox can export data for Quicken or Excel.
Features not yet implemented: Stox draws only "bar charts"
-- no point & figure or candlestick charts yet.
Renounced Feature: There are no plans for Stox to perform technical
analysis. It will not suggest buys or sells.
Stox is FreeWare! (Future versions with additional features may
not be free, but some free variant will be maintained indefinitely.)
Stox v0.9.1, for OS X, will be released soon (sometime in Q4 2003)
Stox v0.9 was released April 2, 2002, and is the current version
Stox v0.3.8 was released July 26, 2000.
Stox v0.3.6 was released August 21, 1999.
Stox v0.3.3 was released January 6, 1999.
Stox v0.3.2 was released December 30, 1997.
Stox v0.3.1 was released January 22, 1997.
Stox v0.3.0 was released September 26, 1996.
Stox v0.2.7 was released August 17, 1995.
Stox v0.2.6, released August 10, was a short-lived public release.
Stox v0.2.4, released April 24, 1995, was the first public version.
Do not be put off by the low version numbers! Stox is robust;
low version numbers indicate grandiose future plans, not poor
quality.
(Stox is no longer distributed via CompuServe's Investors Forum.)