Graphic display of portfolio stock values
Sketching Curves
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We'll show you a Perl script that helps you draw area graphs to keep track of your portfolio's performance.
When it comes to wealth management, the performance of a single stock in your portfolio is less important than the overall performance. Although online financial services might give you neat graphs of share price developments for individual stocks, or even a comparison of two values, they do not offer you a tool that lets you monitor the share price development of your complete portfolio at a glance. A Perl script changes this.
Figure 1 shows the configuration file (pofo1.txt) for a portfolio in a text editor. Each line starts with a date in ISO notation followed by the transaction type – a purchase (in) or a sale (out) – of an individual share, the ticker symbol, and the number of shares. The file also can handle cash transactions; instead of the ticker symbol, you see the word cash.
To keep portfolio management from becoming a tedious typing session, the script automatically calculates the costs and returns of share transactions at the current rate and modifies the cash balance. The program does not take charges into account, instead, it relies on the user adjusting the balance every now and then manually by using a cash entry and a chk transaction.
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