Tag: SMS

Automatic stock exchange programs and stock trading accounts on the rise.

The existence of complex automated stock exchange software is not news anymore. The Online world and the expansion of modern technologies have made it possible to trade stocks and other investment products using either Web-based trading sites or standalone trading software.

If you’re just getting started in the markets, you would want to know how to safely approach this new and exciting world.

Of course! You might benefit from expert knowledge, however it will not be inexpensive. One way an increasing number of new investors use to invest in the financial markets keeping the risk low is trading software.

Technology development facilitates taking advantage of strategies and systems that used to be exclusively for professionals. These systems give consumers access to a great number of investment products, namely stocks, ETFs, currencies, and futures.

Currently, investment companies make available manageable trading programs.

Stocks

Stock investment software provides stock analysis, stock market timing and stock valuation. Several platforms offer automated trading facilities. With these software you will be able to monitor the markets and get advise on when to buy or sell, and manage your portfolio.

Since the advent of automated trading software, the investor can open online trading accounts, design investment strategies, and perform online stock market trading in a computer program.

It is now possible for the layman to analyze charts and trends. The majority of trading programs are able to monitor stock prices to rapidly notice cycle trends. Traders can utilize several programs to manage investments and design their tactic when selling or buying their stocks.

Sorts of stock exchange programs

These days, investment management is possible by means of specialized software with interfaces with financial and analytical environments. Also, you can monitor the markets from your mobile device.

In general, automated trading software display real-time or delayed quotes and charts, provide technical analysis and portfolio management tools, and offer e-mail and SMS alerts. With certain stock monitoring programs you will be able to buy and sell stocks in stock trading sites.

Stock market software can obviously help new investors initiate their way in the stock market. Although it should be taken responsibly. These tools are not able to foresee all market movements, you can always lose money investing this or other ways.

Educate yourself while learning to manage the software to profit from it.

Short Message Service (SMS) or TXT messaging is a technology that enables users to send and receive text messages via mobile phones. Apart for personal usage, SMS can also be used for business purpose, such as sending products promotions to customers, receiving customers feedback, informing customers about upcoming events, and even more sophisticated tasks like hosting SMS survey or contest.

In order to perform these business operations, there is a need to have a solution that supports sending/receiving of SMS via computers. Such a solution can be achieved by using a gsm modem that connect to the computer, and a relevant software that can communicate with the gsm modem.

To communicate with the gsm modem, one would need to transmit standard AT commands via serial port. In this article, I will show the most basic AT commands required for sending and receiving of SMS in text mode.

1.Set preferred message format (+CMGF)

There are two message formats supported: text mode and PDU mode. In this article, I shall illustrate the easier text mode.

To set the preferred message format as text mode:
AT+CMGF=1

Possible response from the gsm modem: OK

2.Send SMS (+CMGS)

To send an SMS in text mode:
AT+CMGS=”da””CR””text to be sent””Ctrl-Z”

where
is destination address, the recipients number you want to send your sms to
is carriage return
is the text message you want to send
is the character 0x1A, or pressing Ctrl key and Z key together

For example, to send the message How are you? to the number 12345678, you key in:
AT+CMGS=12345678

The gsm modem will response with the character >. Then you key in your text:
>How are you?

The gsm modem will respond with the following if successful:
+CMGS:
OK

is the message reference, which is a number from 0 to 255 returned by the gsm modem. This number begins with 0 and is incremented by one for each outgoing message.

3.Receive SMS (+CMGR)

When a new sms arrived, the gsm modem would send the following byte stream:
AT+CMTI: SM,1

To read the message, the computer/software needs to send the command:
AT+CMGR=1

The gsm modem will respond with something similar to the following:
+CMGR: REC UNREAD,12345678, 08/10/01 18:20:35+00,
How are you?
OK

The first part is the command +CMGR, the second part is the status of the message (in this case it is UNREAD), the third portion is the senders mobile number, the forth portion is the base station time-stamp, followed by the the carriage return and line feed characters, the message content, and finally the OK terminating character.

This article aims to provide an introductory guide to how to send/receive sms using computer. The AT commands and packing of PDU mode are much more complex and will not be discussed in this article.