site news for pkfinance.info

Searching for something?

2006-07-28T03:56:29Z

Paying users can now search for news items and board meetings by providing a symbol, date range, or category (in the case of news). I'll have the meeting announcement search enabled in a day or so, plus integration of the announcements with the symbol detail display page.

Search announcements

2006-07-30T04:00:43Z

Paying users can now search announcements by date.

Basis is up

2006-08-04T04:14:55Z

If you're a paying user, you can now compare regular symbols with their futures, right here. Everyone else can see a demo of that tool over here.

Subscription information

2006-08-19T07:34:07Z

The information you've all been waiting for is here. As always, don't forget to leave a comment.

Subscribers who've been beta-testing the paid features will need to upgrade soon to retain access. They'll be notified a few days in advance by email.

It's been over a month...

2006-10-07T03:46:54Z

It's been way too long since my last update. Here's some of the things we've added to the site over the past month or so:

portfolio charts — investment, current portfolio value, and gain/loss over time, with or without comparisons against the KSE-100 index (paid users only)
email a company's details — recent stock performance, last annual report's figures, recent company news — everything we show on the symbol summary page
more derived data for the company fundamentals display (paid users only)
one-click update of changed/delisted symbols on the portfolio and alert pages
more technical screeners, including recent trades sorted by sector
quick links for company fundamentals, sorted by EPS, ROE, P/E, P/BV (paid users only)
interactive technical charts with over 50 technical indicators, buy/sell signals, and user-configurable parameters (paid users only)
portfolio emails in text and csv format
listed the various subscription packages as e-products on 2co
pivot calculations, for rough indications of support/resistance levels (paid users only)
calender selection for date fields

Curious about the interactive charts? Here's a screenshot of them in action (click for a larger image):

What's next? We're massaging some collected fundamentals data of quarterly announcements from 1997 onwards. It'll show up on the fundamentals page soon. We're also performing some backend optimization — automating the news subsite, for example. Most importantly, we're working to get a live KSE feed, for intraday charts and a stock ticker.

Several of the features I've listed up above were actually suggestions made by subscribers. If you'd like to see something on the site, let us know! We're more likely than not to add tools for our subscribers, and you don't have to be a paying subscriber for us to listen to you.

Hopefully my next update will be in less than a month's time...

Screener changes

2006-10-23T07:10:37Z

The screener has two more selection criteria: percentage of the symbol's highest close ever, and percentage of the highest close within the past 52 weeks. The latter, of course, is only useful for symbols that have traded in the past 52 weeks.

Want to see more items in the screener selection form? Tell us, and we'll try to work something out.

updates

2006-12-05T03:48:31Z

I hope you all are doing well. The weather is finally nice here in Lahore; a pity it's hot nine months out of twelve.

I have had a couple of meetings with my co-workers, and we've discussed ideas for what to add to the site. One thing they're going through is company information -- lists of company directors, executives, company office locations, things like that. I wrote some code for them, and they're doing data entry on that; the feature should be available on the site before the end of the year.

Another thing is more fundamentals data -- we have access to quarterly results for several years, but they're in a format that needs to be converted for the web site. It shouldn't take long to do the conversion, though it will take a short while to cross-check the data with paper records, and ensure its accuracy. After it's added to the database, we'll be able to calculate expected earnings, PEG ratios, and much more.

The CFS subsection of the site is almost ready -- that might be available within a week or two.

oops!

2006-12-16T01:47:46Z

A few subscribers received alerts during the past three days (Wednesday to today) which were triggered incorrectly. The offending code has been fixed.

The management apologizes for any inconvenience they may have caused.

52 week comparison

2006-12-19T23:33:45Z

A subscriber asked for this, and it took a few minutes to add. You can now feed in a bunch of symbols on the screener page, and it will return a table with the last closing prices for the symbols, their 52 week highs and lows, and percentages of the closing prices against the 52 week markers.

It's a “convenience” feature — all the information it provides is available elsewhere on the site, but having it in one table cuts down on the amount of work you have to do. If you'd like to see similar aggregated collections of data, let us know! We're here to serve you, after all.

You will need to be logged in to use the feature; if you don't have an account, sign up for free.

free access to premium features

2007-01-03T22:19:05Z

Signed into the site before January 2007? Well, you now have access to all the paid features until the end of the month!

edit, averaged cost

2007-01-04T03:56:11Z

A few subscribers have asked for some sort of edit or update functionality for the portfolio entries. I've been putting off adding an edit button because I wanted to redo the portfolio page as a trade log, which I know several subscribers are interested in.

Since it's taking me a while to properly design the trade log feature, I've gone ahead and added the edit button to the portfolio page. If you run into any problems with it, please let me know.

Based on another request, I've added a "cost price" column to the portfolio summary page. This is the averaged cost of the share buy prices — it's useful if you've bought multiple amounts of the same shares at different rates.

news alerts

2007-01-20T02:16:56Z

In addition to the price and volume-related stock alerts, you can now set news alerts for stocks you are interested in. If there are any news items in the local media or announcements made by the company, you'll find a copy of them in your email.

This is a paid feature, but free for all subscribers until the end of January. Not a subscriber? Sign up for free today!

stock lookup error

2007-01-28T22:46:38Z

I just found out that the stock lookup pages didn't work for many subscribers this weekend. It turned out to be an error introduced late Friday night. The problem has been fixed now, and we apologize for the lack of access.

To compensate our valued users for the inconvenience, we're extending the trial for two more days. It will now end on Feb 2, not Jan 31.

site updates

2007-04-03T03:38:43Z

For our paying subscribers, we've begun adding company quarterly data derived from announcements. We're adding the results sector-by-sector, and will have at least four or five quarters worth of information (where possible) on the site within a month or so. The data is available here. Currently updated: the close-end mutual funds, modarabas, and commercial banks sectors.

We've also added a page to the site that lists all the updates made to the various sections (news and announcements, nav, book closure dates and spot/xd/xb dates, quarterly results, etc.). This is linked to the footer of every page on this site. There will be an Atom feed for the updates later this week.

more presets

2007-05-03T08:35:03Z

Based on subscriber feedback, we've added three more preset screeners: sort today's traded companies by the percentage of their close prices against their intraday highs, and display companies that have crossed their 14-day moving averages and 200-day moving averages. The latter two are available to paying subscribers only.

Coming soon: display companies that have exceeded or hit their 52-week highs on consecutive days.

circuit breakers, and even more presets

2007-05-23T08:02:46Z

Added over the course of this month:

a preset screener for companies that have hit their 52 week highs on consecutive days,
preset screeners for companies that have exceeded their three month, six month, and one year average volumes in the last trading session,
daily KSE circuit breakers data

Coming soon for our paying subscribers: company meetings and meeting announcements data in a tabular format, more screener criteria, industry-based company performance comparisons, and more. Want to see your favorite tool on the site? Let us know!

intraday charts

2007-07-17T04:07:26Z

The technical charts application can now be used to view KSE intraday trade data. The feed updates once a minute, and the charting tool updates automatically during trading hours. Here's how you can access these charts:

during business hours, login to the site,
enter a symbol at the top-right of any page, or on the stock summary page,
click on the technical charts link,
when the charts applet starts up, click on the drop-down box that says "Daily" and change that to "1 minute".

The charting tool requires Java 1.4 or higher; you can download Java 6 by clicking on the link at http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp. It is a small download (roughly 7MB for Windows XP/2000). Macintosh users may need to upgrade to OS X 10.4 for Java 1.4. Linux users can either download Java 6 from the above site, or (recommended) use their distribution's package tools to install it.

As always, if you have any questions or comments about this feature, let us know! If you are not a paying subscriber, but are interested in previewing our features, simply login to the site as a free subscriber, and request a trial.

stock high-low price spread, shareholding data

2007-09-14T23:01:52Z

Paying subscribers can now view daily and average stock price high-low spreads on the symbol history page. This feature is useful mainly to day traders.

Shareholding statistics for over two hundred companies have been updated with their FY 2006 and 2007 data. If you'd like to see the statistics for your favorite stock picks, contact us, and we'll try to bump them to a higher place in the queue.

special rate for portfolio users

2008-02-20T01:42:31Z

Subscribers who are interested in just the portfolio features can now pay a lower rate to get the same tools as paying subscribers. For Rs 200/month (or Rs 1,200/year), portfolio users will be able to

add virtually unlimited portfolio entries
receive daily portfolio emails, instead of weekly
view portfolio charts

and use most portfolio features that become available to paying subscribers. For more details, view our subscription details page.

portfolio trials

2008-03-03T10:36:01Z

Subscribers can try out the portfolio paid features for two weeks. Simply login, and click on the trial link.

stock data for today

2008-04-16T05:00:00Z

The KSE site has been unreachable for most of today. As such, we've been unable to update today's stock data. We're looking into solutions for this problem.

site downtime

2008-04-16T05:15:00Z

pkfinance.info will be unavailable for about 15 minutes between 10am and 12pm tomorrow (April 16, 2008).

new site look

2008-07-02T04:30:12Z

We've talked with subscribers and usability experts over the past month, and have incorporated their suggestions to come up with a new look for the site. It's not complete yet, but here's a sneak preview.

Do you like it? Hate it? Leave a comment!

The new look

2008-07-10T03:36:19Z

The new site look is now live! We're still working on updating a bunch of pages to unify the look & feel; expect minor updates throughout the next week or two. For comparison purposes, you can see the old look here and here.