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Pocket Portfolio
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What is it?
Pocket Portfolio was written so that I could keep a track of my accounts, which are a mixture of normal bank accounts and stocks. I looked for an application that I could use on my phone and Palm, but none were suitable.
All the your account details are secure once logged on (well as secure as DES encryption is with an 8 character password), but you need to make sure that you remember the password as there is no way of getting the password back, you would have to reset the records which means losing your portfolio completely.
Really this application is a spread sheet that can get delayed prices for your stocks to give you an idea how wealthy or poor you are. The prices and charts for the UK version come from
yahoo uk
and
yahoo us
for the US version. I think it should work for other countries as well but I have not tried by changing the URL's in the Pref section to the appropriate yahoo web site. Without logging onto the application you can still perform a quick quote its just that you cannot see any of the account information that you previously setup.
If your phone support them you can get hold of a stocks price chart for today. This seems to work fine on my Palm pilot but doesn't on my phone...Not sure why, but by default the automatic displaying of charts is turned off, you have to either request them directly once you have a stock price returned or in the Settings section you can change the default setting and always return a chart.
Features
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Quick quotes and charts via Yahoo (you do not have to be logged in to use this feature).
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Create / delete / amend accounts and stock portfolio items.
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Displays your current portfolio.
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Secure DES encrytion on all your portfolio items.
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Stores portfolio and last quote details locally on your device.
Request Costs
This all depends upon your service provider costs. The packets of data that are set and received from the Yahoo server are very small, you can monitor the exact number in the "About" page on the application.
Donation
If you Pocket Portfolio and would like to help to keep it going please make a donation by clicking here:
The amount is very small, only £2.00 and it would really help. Thank you.
Device Compatibility
To find out if your device is compatible goto the following
site. It has a list of all known Java enabled devices and there compatibilities.
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Java enabled phone (MIDP1.0 CLDC 1.0) that can cope with jar files of 38K.
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GPRS enabled for HTTP communication through to Yahoo for the quotes and charts.
Liability
Although I have tested this application as much as I can it may still have bugs in it. I expect no responsibility or liability for any damage that this application may cause. The data is not guaranteed to be accurate and may sometimes by unavailable. Its basically sold as seen.
Mobile Installation Instructions
The easiest way to install is via the WAP site, which contains links to all the J2ME applications. Enter the following URL into you phone and choose the application you want to install.
http://www.freej2me.co.uk/mobile.wml
The other way of installing is to directly enter the following URL into your device via the Services menu option or something similar. You will be asked whether you wish to accept the file onto your device, enter yes and the application will be installed.
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For the UK version http://www.freej2me.co.uk/PocketPortfolio_UK.jad
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For the US version http://www.freej2me.co.uk/PocketPortfolio_US.jad
Palm Pilot Installation Instructions
To install on a Palm 5.0 device first you need the
IBM Java VM
installed onto your palm device. Next download and install (HotSync) the following file:
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