Investar is a software program developed with the intent to help analysts, investors or traders to perform technical analysis on the Indian Market stocks and keep track of capital gains. It also helps users to better manage financial situations or taxes.
After completing a straightforward installation process, the end user discovers a complex interface, filled with numerous toolbars -full of small button icons-, charts, and other advanced options. Thus, while navigating through the menu, users may feel that the interface is overcrowded.
When it comes to functionalities, Investar offers users various tools for performing technical analysis, starting with an Auto-update feature for EOD&Live Market Data.
Furthermore, it provides more than 65 technical indicators and 35 drawings for completing the technical analysis. Also, it supports importing of stocks and F&Q transactions from online brokers straight into the program's main window.
With Investar, users can carry out over 190 technical and fundamental scans, keep track of Short and Long Term Capital Gains and get advice from the built-in Expert Advisor.
In conclusion, Investar is a decent solution to use in stock market analysis, though the interface may be confusing for novice users and the use of system memory is too high.
v3.0 [Dec 10, 2011]
FEATURE: Buy/Sell signals in Chart.
FEATURE: Support for World Indices.
FEATURE: Support for MCX & NCDEX EOD data (with Commodities Add-On).
FEATURE: Improved user-interface with easy access to most functionality through toolbars.
FEATURE: User Interface Persistence across sessions (Re-starting Investar will bring up the same pane and UI that was there in the previous run).
FEATURE: Split Quick Start Tutorial into 6 parts for easier understanding.
FEATURE: Comparison of Multiple Scrips.
FEATURE: Moving Averages (SMA, EMA, WMAetc) can now be placed on High, Low and Open also.
FEATURE: Support for Gann Studies (Gann Fan and Gann Angle).
FEATURE: Improved Data Updation with automatic data updates supported for multiple markets according to their trading schedules.
FEATURE: Improved Price Alerts with many more criteria.
FEATURE: 24 New Technical Scans.
FEATURE: New Technical Indicator (Relative Strength � Comparitive).
FEATURE: User-friendly multi-asset symbol lookup in both chart & fundamentals.
FEATURE: Explicit option to save Investar settings in toolbar to avoid loss of settings in case of power/system failure.
FEATURE: Realized Gain/Loss in Portfolio Holdings View.
FEATURE: Asset filters in Trading Diary and Profit/Loss Analysis.
FEATURE: In Portfolio Holdings view, asset-wise grouping for each portfolio.
FEATURE: Facility to create Favorite group of F&O traded scrips.
FEATURE: Optional popup alert notification for scan and price alerts.
FEATURE: Facility to add bonus and dividend payout transaction for stocks.
CHANGE: Removed redundant Y-axis when Price and volume are displayed in same chart area.
CHANGE: Improved Portfolio Performance Report.
CHANGE: Support of 5 portfolios and 10 accounts in Basic edition.
CHANGE: Allow to reduce initial cash balance while editing margin account.
CHANGE: Added two more (23.6 & 78.6) ratios for Fibonacci Retracements and Fibonacci Extensions.
CHANGE: Value for drawing Stop/Loss Line in chart for portfolio symbols can be customized now.
CHANGE: Y-Axis for volume in top area is optional now.
CHANGE: PSAR has two parameters now instead of 3 in Investar 2.0.
CHANGE: Improved performance for AsOf and Portfolio performance report.
CHANGE: Now Scan Alert can be set on any scan scrip also.
BUGFIX: Improved performance in Parabolic SAR.
BUGFIX: Fixed formula for Fast Stochasitcs.
BUGFIX: Newer candle was not invisible in zoom mode. One hasd to scroll or press end key to get it in Investar 2.0.
BUGFIX: updating data due to corruption in portfolio settings. (Portfolio big size issue).
BUGFIX: Investar was getting hanged if someone click on any scrip in Scan Alerts to view its chart.
BUGFIX: Performance improvement in Scan Alert window when there are too many alerts.
BUGFIX: Portfolio backup cannot be restored successfully in some scenarios.
BUGFIX: Fixed formula for Fast Stochasitcs.
BUGFIX: Fixed formula for Fast Stochasitcs.
