BTC Trader - live charting and tech-analysis desktop application

[nhodges]

Good day everyone!

My name is Coinfreak and I proudly present:
BTC Trader - opensource crossplatform charting/technical analysis/trading application.



Current version 1.4.1.1 includes

• Live data feed from bitcoincharts.com
• Daily data feed from Yahoo Finance
• Rich collection of tech-analysis tools
• Facebook and Twitter integration
• Automatic updates

Bundles for Windows, Linux and Max OS X are available.

This project is at beta-stage now. So the best thing you can help to project development is testing, testing and testing...

Any bugreports, suggestions and so on?

Howdy! Looks great, haven't tested it out on Linux or OS X, but it's running just fine on my Windows machine.

I also wanted to let you know I've featured your application on the Bitcoin News Network: http://www.btcnn.com/2011/08/btc-trader-market-charting-analysis.html

[Christian Pezza]

mac work. this is awesome

[coinfreak]

I also wanted to let you know I've featured your application on the Bitcoin News Network: http://www.btcnn.com/2011/08/btc-trader-market-charting-analysis.html

+1'ed 

[Oldminer]

I really like this app though the individual studies (in particular) need to be a bit more customisable.

Also if I change the time interval from say 5 min to daily I get a window saying 'acquiring data from MtGoxUSD' but it seems to sit there forever and I cant see anyway of getting back to the customised chart I've created. It seems if something breaks in the app you have to create your charts all over again

I also noticed this program uses 20-24% of my total CPU speed. As a result my mining hash rate has dropped 10% 

Be nice if these resource issue bugs could be fixed as its a very neat program.

[Oldminer]

I just closed then re-opened the program and got this error as a small red icon in the lower right hand corner:

java.io.IOException: Bad Gateway
   at org.chartsy.main.managers.ProxyManager.inputStreamGET(ProxyManager.java:115)
   at org.chartsy.main.managers.ProxyManager.bufferReaderGET(ProxyManager.java:127)
   at com.bitcoincharts.BitcoinChartsDataProvider.initialize(BitcoinChartsDataProvider.java:74)
Caused: java.lang.RuntimeException
   at com.bitcoincharts.BitcoinChartsDataProvider.initialize(BitcoinChartsDataProvider.java:98)
   at org.chartsy.main.managers.DataProviderManager.<init>(DataProviderManager.java:40)
   at org.chartsy.main.managers.DataProviderManager.getDefault(DataProviderManager.java:27)
   at org.chartsy.main.Installer.restored(Installer.java:46)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.NbInstaller.loadCode(NbInstaller.java:426)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.NbInstaller.load(NbInstaller.java:366)
   at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:993)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.installNew(ModuleList.java:318)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.trigger(ModuleList.java:254)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.restore(ModuleSystem.java:286)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:172)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:308)
   at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:114)
[catch] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

EDIT: never mind, I see its related to BTC being down

[Oldminer]

Still finding the program a bit buggy though when it works its awesome (love the colors).

Ive had the program hang a few times (Im running win 7 64 bit on a high end PC, latest Cat 11.8 drivers). I find I have to keep an eye on the price on another ticker to ensure this one hasnt stalled (bit risky when replying on it to trade imo). It would be nice to be able to set time zones too.

I also find that when switching between intervals the interval time I had last chosen still remains at the top in the description field though its obviously moved to the new time interval? I'm also often getting weird looking graphs when switching between intervals but I find switching to another then switching back usually fixes it. Its like its not pulling all the data sometimes but I realise this could be a problem with Bitcoincharts.com? Is there anyway we can force the refresh of a chart when we can see the price/time is wrong??

Ive had a play around with setting CPU affinity, process priority, etc but performance remains the same.

Again, kudos on getting this program up. If you can fix the bugs I'll be happy to donate some BTC

[coinfreak]

Topic has been moved according to poll results.

[Oldminer]

I'm also finding sometimes the price doesnt update or is slow to update unless I change intervals then suddenly it updates?

Also if I close the program then try to reopen I get the splash screen then nothing. I notice in task manager the program is there using zero CPU process and then it disappears. The only way around this is the delete the .btctrader folder in C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming then reopen which of course means I have to recreate the charts again.

Hope this helps

[Fireball]

I think I better reuse this thread for similar app, I hope coinfreak doesn't mind (do you? If yes, then I will move on to another thread).

I have just implemented a live orderbook visualization using MtGox's volume change websocket channel in my app.
For those who like experimental stuff, here is the first version http://code.google.com/p/bittrader/downloads/list
The app is of course fully opensource, and Windows-only (sorry dear Linux and MacOS X users).

To see the orderbook, just run the app and wait till it starts populating the data. It gets more complete with time (due to.. uhm.. not-very-suitable MtGox streaming, to say the least) so have some patience. There is no need to log in now.

Next step would be adding simple realtime charting ability, and finally order submit/editing.

[phorensic]

I keep losing the feed in BTC Trader also.  Is this a Chartsy problem or the customizations done to it?  We want to see a new version!

[Oldminer]

I keep losing the feed in BTC Trader also.  Is this a Chartsy problem or the customizations done to it?  We want to see a new version!

Yea I've gone back to Sierracharts for now. This is too buggy atm.

[Deafboy]

Instalation unsuccessfull on debian 6 openvz container.

http://deafboy.cicolina.org/igelitka/btctrade.log
There are some issues with openvz and java, but god dammit I have 860mb of free ram...

[kicir]

weird...downloaded the Mac installer and tried to verify the MD5 checksum and it failed the test: got a different checksum ()

has anyone else verified the integrity of their downloaded installers?

[coinfreak]

weird...downloaded the Mac installer and tried to verify the MD5 checksum and it failed the test: got a different checksum ()

has anyone else verified the integrity of their downloaded installers?

btctrader-macosx.tgz md5 is 805687a69307fe34a6fecd55dd8c24ce

And also my

Code:

md5sum -c btctrader-macosx.tgz.md5

is OK

How do you check your downloads?

[coinfreak]

Instalation unsuccessfull on debian 6 openvz container.

http://deafboy.cicolina.org/igelitka/btctrade.log
There are some issues with openvz and java, but god dammit I have 860mb of free ram...

Could you provide more info about openvz and java issues please?

[AnRkey]

Minor bug report.  If you start the program and it's not maximized, then you maximize it, the chart won't scale to fit the new size.  Chart scales fine if you exit the program while maximized and then reopen it.  Let me know if you need the IDE Log

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6002/6004334972_969046a3ef_b.jpg

In my copy of the app running here: I get charts under the Forex folder in the app. I don't get any charts under the bitcoin folder in the app.

I have deleted my profile as explained earlier just to be sure it's not my install.

Please advise.

R

PS: I'm excited about this app. It looks shweet so far!

[AnRkey]

For now, http://bitcoinity.org/markets?exchange=all is nice for keeping up with things

[Oldminer]

Minor bug report.  If you start the program and it's not maximized, then you maximize it, the chart won't scale to fit the new size.  Chart scales fine if you exit the program while maximized and then reopen it.  Let me know if you need the IDE Log

In my copy of the app running here: I get charts under the Forex folder in the app. I don't get any charts under the bitcoin folder in the app.

I have deleted my profile as explained earlier just to be sure it's not my install.

Please advise.

R

PS: I'm excited about this app. It looks shweet so far!

Unfortunately you will find your self constantly having to delete your profile and start over. Its a pity this development isnt being supported as its one of the best I've seen so far.

[AnRkey]

I would subscribe to an email newsletter about this app if there was one. I'm very happy about it's development.

[helloworld]

I would subscribe to an email newsletter about this app if there was one. I'm very happy about it's development.

Me too. It's more like real trading software that you'd use for stocks. MtGox and tradehill really have poor no trading software in comparison.