I am looking for Desktop software which takes Daily Open/Close/High/Low (and possibly Volume) input as csv or any text format.
I already have Excel but I found several shortcomings with Excel
If my chart is rather long or wide, then Excel does not provide me with a way to anchor the axes while scrolling. So when I looking at a particular candlestick, I am unable to see the axes & their marking labels. Excel allows you to freeze/anchor a row or a column, but doesn't allow you to do this with axes in a chart.
Drawing something on top of an Excel chart is rather painful. The number of steps involved in just drawing a line on a chart makes it quite cumbersome.
If you add volume to Excel Candlestick - it then changes the y-axis scaling in such a way, that either the candles become uninterpretable. I would prefer the volume chart be below the candle chart with it's own y-axis. I have now gone around to creating 2 different charts & aligning their X-axis dates with each other.
Is there any free software which satisfies my requirements? I am not looking for the software to download it's own data from the exchange but take input from a flat file. Volume plotting is not necessary but a bonus. Likewise, if the software can identify patterns in the chart that would be a bonus but is not a must.
