Advance Stock Tracker

The Advanced Stock Tracking System (AST) is a powerful Web-based tool that provides an efficient way to track and manage stocks. AST comes equipped with several features that allow users to efficiently monitor their stocks, including a dividend tracker, a worksheet to keep track of prospects, a stock comparison tool, and a search engine that relies heavily on technical analysis.

In order to utilize AST, users must have access to a CGI capable web-server, such as Apache, as well as several additional software requirements, including gnuplot, mhash, zlib, libcurl, and libxml2. While sendmail and cron are optional, they are recommended for email notifications and pattern search and news, respectively.

Installation of AST is simple and can be done either from source or through the pre-compiled binary for i386, both of which are available on the files page. If installing from source, users can run ./configure and then make to generate the stocks.cgi executable file. For the pre-compiled binary, users need to place it in their htdocs directory, make it executable and download the necessary data files.

Once installed, the default login for AST is admin, with the password admin. However, users can change login credentials and add other users through the users tab. If utilizing features such as news, alerts, or pattern search, it is essential to load the crontab file from the ast-data distribution into the local crontab. This ensures that the required data for all symbols is downloaded nightly.

Overall, AST is an excellent tool for those looking to track and manage stocks. The latest release of AST fixes previously existing downloading errors with Yahoo! Finance, making it an even more effective tool for those in the stock market.