If you are investing in the stock market, you probably understand the importance of a sound portfolio management plan. The goal of portfolio management is to come up with the best investment plan tailored for you, considering your risk tolerance, time horizon and financial goals. Given its importance, no wonder there are no shortage of commercial portfolio management apps and stock market monitoring software, each touting various sophisticated portfolio performance tracking and reporting capabilities.

For those of you Linux aficionados who are looking for a good open-source portfolio management tool to manage and track your stock portfolio on Linux, I would highly recommend a Java-based portfolio manager called JStock. If you are not a big Java fan, you might be turned off by the fact that JStock runs on a heavyweight JVM.

At the same time I am sure many people will appreciate the fact that JStock is instantly accessible on every Linux platform with JRE installed.

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No hoops to jump through to make it work on your Linux environment. The day is gone when "open-source" means "cheap" or "subpar". Considering that JStock is just a one-man job, JStock is impressively packed with many useful features as a portfolio management tool, and all that credit goes to Yan Cheng Cheok! Sounds pretty neat, huh? Now I am going to show you how to install and use JStock in more detail.

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Since JStock is written in Java, you must install JRE to run it. Note that JStock requires JRE 1. If your JRE version does not meet this requirement, JStock will fail with the following error.

Once you install JRE on your Linux, download the latest JStock release from the official website, and launch it as follows. On JStock you can monitor stock price movement and automatically get notified by creating one or more watchlists.

In each watchlist, you can add multiple stocks you are interested in. Then add your alert thresholds under "Fall Below" and "Rise Above" columns, which correspond to minimum and maximum stock prices you want to set, respectively. You can also enable email alert option, so that you will instead receive email notifications for such price events. To enable email alerts, go to "Options" menu. Under "Alert" tab, turn on "Send message to email s " box, and enter your Gmail account.

Once you go through Gmail authorization steps, JStock will start sending email alerts to that Gmail account and optionally CC to any third-party email address.

JStock allows you to manage multiple portfolios. This feature is useful if you are using multiple stock brokers. You can switch different portfolios by choosing a particular portfolio under "Portfolio" menu. The following screenshot shows a hypothetical portfolio. If you are lazy, you can enable fee auto-calculation and enter fee schedules for each brokering firm from the option menu beforehand. Then JStock will automatically calculate and enter fees when you add transactions to your portfolio.

If you are doing any technical analysis on stocks, you may want to screen stocks based on various criteria so-called "stock indicators". The following is a list of available indicators.

To install any pre-built indicator, go to "Stock Indicator Editor" tab on JStock. Then click on "Install" button in the right-side panel.

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Choose "Install from JStock server" option, and then install any indicator s you want. Once one or more indicators are installed, you can scan stocks using them.

Go to "Stock Indicator Scanner" tab, click on "Scan" button at the bottom, and choose any indicator. Once you select the stocks to scan e. Besides pre-built indicators, you can also define custom indicator s on your own with a GUI-based indicator editor.

The following example screens for stocks whose current price is less than or equal to its day average price. Another nice feature of JStock is cloud backup and restore. I tested it on Linux desktop and Android mobile, and it worked beautifully.

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I saved my JStock portfolios to Google Drive on Android, and was able to restore them on Linux version of JStock. Still thumbs up to this nice feature. JStock Android free version is available from Google Play store. You will need to upgrade to premium version for one-time payment if you want to use its full features e.

I think the premium version is definitely worth it. As a final note, I should mention that its creator, Yan Cheng Cheok, is pretty active in JStock development, and quite responsive in addressing any bugs. Do you want to receive Linux FAQs, detailed tutorials and tips published at Xmodulo? Enter your email address below, and we will deliver our Linux posts straight to your email box, for free.

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