• Fixed real time quotes, again.
• Changed refresh time to 30 minutes

• Fixed real time quotes for DJI
• Simplified signal reporting
• added stock/bond ratio display

Early this year Yahoo stopped allowing delayed real time quotes to the ticker ^DJI. I was able to work around this by using the ticker INDU. That ticker has now been blocked by Yahoo.  They still provide delayed real time quotes to 12,000 other stock tickers, just not the Dow Jones.  I’ll get to work on changing Tradeplan to use Google for intra-day quotes.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3679870/yahoo-finance-csv-file-will-not-return-dow-jones-dji

http://developer.yahoo.com/forum/General-Discussion-at-YDN/Dow-Jones-Average-Error/1283975525000-e462d312-827e-3316-900e-c85f668f587d

Tradeplan is now available on the Android Market!

Features:

•  Market Uptrend and Downtrend Signals
•  Notification on market changes, on your phone.

Check it out

This past Friday August 12th, Tradeplan 401K signaled a market downturn.

* Fixed bug that occurs when current market trend changes to downward

* Full temporary (good until 8/31/2011) license is now bundled with installer.

* Now minimizes to system tray on exit and will look for market changes in the background.

* same day market analysis performed with 15 minute auto update intervals, and manual update button.

* signal strength indicator now shows market conditions at a glance.

Tradeplan 401K is designed to help people make 401K fund allocation decisions. The basic premise is that investors are greedy and will move money from stocks to bonds when markets are uncertain, and back from bonds to stocks when markets are improving. You can tell when investors are doing this by looking at the bond prices relative to stock index prices (and also performing some minor black  magic). Interestingly, these stock/bond adjustments often occur months before major market movements, so we have plenty of time to follow along with the “smart” money.

Tradeplan 401K automates the analysis (and magic), and displays a nice DOW chart with “stock” or “bond” overlays for when the Tradeplan algorithm would have signaled historically. Also there is a nice chart of where your retirement account might have been had you been playing along all this time.

The good news is that you don’t have to make frequent 401K allocation changes, Tradeplan 401K only required six changes in seven years. And the benefits of those six 401K changes are worth the effort.

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Note: The final release will run itself automatically and provide a nag screen to your desktop when its time to change, so you don’t have to worry about running it manually every day.

Tradeplan 401K main screen

We are very excited to announce a  new strategy for Tradeplan —  Tradeplan Long Term!  With this add-on,  Tradeplan DJI will become just “Tradeplan” and users will have the option to create both DJI Trend Trading strategies and Long Term strategies.

Tradeplan Long Term is designed to alternate between stock fund and bond fund trades, depending on market conditions.  Users can use default funds or customize.

The system can also be used (or reviewed)  without buying any software by subscribing to Tradeplan Long Term at the collective2 site.

Tradeplan Long Term is  a very simple way to manage long term investment accounts.