MetaView lets you view the stock market in 3D

Lyle Andrews has released MetaView, a new application that lets you view stock market data in 3D. 

MetaView lets you group stocks to view in 3D. If you are grouping stocks you hold, you can enter the number of shares you have; MetaView will calculate the total value and display it in the main view. Yu can use a menu to view more information about individual stocks; save headlines and URLs of new stories for each stock; access Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and graph them by date; and enter historical events and assign them to groups.

MetaView provides.

• What stocks parallel each other and under what conditions do they diverge?

• What stocks are dependent on others?

• To what degree do news stories affect stock prices, and do the prices change before or after the stories get published?

• Are there certain historical events that move entire markets simultaneously?

Currently MetaView does the the following:

• You can create groups of stocks to view in 3D, if you enter the number of shares you have of each it will calculate the total value and display it in the main view.

• When you are viewing a particular stock in MetaView you can use a menu to jump to view more information about that stock at any of the free financial news sites out on the web.

• You can then save headlines (and URLs) for news stories for each stock and graph when they were published on the price graph. 

• You can also access SEC filings and graph them by date.

• You can enter historical events and assign them to various groups, they will then be displayed as labels on the reference grid behind the stock charts.

• MetaView has a speech sythesis function that can give you an audible summary of each stock in a group as it automatically cycles through them.

• MetaView comes with a screensaver that shows the same view as the main window. It's eye catching and entertaining, as well as being informative, and tends to draw a lot of attention from friends and coworkers. The speech synthesizer can also be turned on and off while in screensaver mode.

• MetaView automatically downloads data for the U.S. market. You can schedule when this happens or use the default schedule. Because data is stored on your local hard drive rather than the net, access is very fast, and you can still use most of its functionality when you have no net connection.