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If the terms “Dow Jones Industrial Average”, “Price Earnings Ratio”, “shares”, “Current Dollar Profit”, and “Portfolio” mean anything special to you, buying this program might just be the kind of “investment” you’d like to look into.
STOCK PLOT is a program, written in BASIC, that plots the prices and volumes for the last 26 weeks on 19 user-selected stocks, and tabulates other useful information. The compiled data are presented to the user in the form of a graph, plotting the dollar price and volume of an individual stock. Also available are two tables, the first of which lists the stock symbol, year’s Hi/Lo, P/E Ratio, purchase price, current price, percent profit, the averages of the purchase price and current price of the portfolio. The second table shows the number of shares of each stock, the dollar cost, current dollar value, current dollar profit (loss), the totals of the previous four items, and the percent profit (loss) for the portfolio of all 19 stocks.
For substantially less than the cost of a single share of IBM, you will receive a neatly packaged cassette tape containing two copies of STOCK PLOT. Side one contains a cleared, ready to use version of the program. Side two contains the same program but loaded with examples that will help familiarize you with the program’s options. Also included is a 13 page 8-1/2″ X 11″ format pamphlet, written by the author, that not only explains how to load and use the program, but also contains a full program listing, an explanation of how each routine works, and suggestions, tips, and hints for modifying STOCK PLOT to suit your own individual needs.
The Program is easy to use, with sufficient screen prompts to make learning and using STOCK PLOT a relatively simple task. For those of you who own disc drives, the program is easily modified and transfered to disc. While originally intended for use with a 2040 printer, STOCK PLOT will work with both Memotech and Aerco I/F’s, to print out most of the data. The only problem occurs when printing a stock price/volume graph. The weekly stock price is represented by a graphic inverse space. The above-mentioned printer I/Fs won’t print that particular symbol, so some program modification will be needed if you wish to use the graph print function.[See SWN Vol. 1 LPRINT Hints if your printer allows block graphics. -fn]