First of all, as a complete novice in C++, I would like to say hello to the forum.
What I am thinking of doing is teaching myself C++ with a view to writing/compiling a simple graphical application to use the opensource gnuplot program to chart stock market, futures and forex price charts along with various indicators. I think gnuplot would be a good choice for what I want to do because from what I have read about it, it is able to plot the sort of charts I want and, of course, it is highly flexible and would lend itself to being using for plotting other types of chart. What I envisage is having the C++ application read in data from a database or from .CSV/.txt/.dat files that already have the prices and indicator values in them, pass the relevant information from these files to the gnuplot program in a format the gnuplot program can understand, and then have the gnuplot program output the desired chart. Is the above proposal actually feasible? Will it be possible to write such a C++ application? How difficult would it be (I am quite proficient in Excel VBA but know virtually nothing about C++)? And if it is possible and not completely beyond the capabilities of someone such as myself, what things in C++ should I learn first and what would be most important for me to learn.
