• DO YOU NEED
    SHARE TRADING SOFTWARE AND EDUCATION
    Our software products are extremely user-friendly, perfect for both the beginner in the market, as well as the professional investor

Affordable, Efficient and Reliable Share Market Technical Analysis Software Everything you need to successfully invest on the stock market

About Progress Data Services

PDSNET (Progress Data Services) specialises in the development and sale of local as well as internationally acclaimed share trading investment software and education.

Over the last 35 years, we have become the largest local provider of stock market data, providing data of all equities quoted on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange), Futures, Unit Trusts, Currencies and Commodities as well as many of the major International Indices.


Our mission is to provide accurate and reliable JSE data to all our customers. As well as this, we aim to sell only the best technical analysis products on the market, and pride ourselves in supplying value for money.

FOUR IMPORTANT CRITERIA WHEN CHOOSING TECHNICAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

A competent investor will tell you there are four basic criteria when choosing technical analysis software. We are proud to say that our software easily satisfies these, is sold ethically and is good value for money.



"Whenever I have a problem I can phone PDSnet for help. They go out of their way to assist me, be it on Teamviewer or sending someone to my office. I firmly believe that one of the reasons for their success is that they provide full support and a download service in MetaStock format plus providing the client with knowledgeable trained technical support staff. Their software program, ShareFriend Pro, is also commendable and must rank as one of the most user-friendly and easiest to use charting software available on the local market."

Christo AuretHead Finance WITS University

"Throughout my years as a financial journalist, writing on stock market investment for The Citizen, The Star, The Business Day and The Financial Mail, I have mostly relied upon ShareFriend Executive and ShareFriend Pro to identify the shares most likely to gain, or those in danger of losing ground. I am able to pick which sectors should be highlighted, those that should be left alone; when gold or oil are likely to change direction. The data necessary to compile my charts is provided by PDS Data Centre. Having now retired from journalism but still running several portfolios of shares, a daily download is all I need, but could choose more frequent downloads if I wished. With the holdings in my various portfolios automatically updated, taking split-second action at exactly the right time is child’s play."

Jean Temkin's books

Jean TemkinFinancial Journalist and Author

We would love to hear from you

We are open Mondays to Thursdays from 8am to 6pm and on Fridays from 8am to 5pm.

Success! Your message has been sent to us.
Error! There was an error sending your message.

Our Office

PDSnet | Articles

PDSNET ARTICLES

Correction

The progress of the S&P500 index of the 500 largest companies on Wall Street is important because stock markets around the world, including the JSE, tend to follow it sooner or later.

On 19th January this year, something momentous happened when the S&P broke above its previous all-time record high

WeBuyCars

In a few days’ time, Transaction Capital (TCP) will unbundle and separately list its second-hand car sales company, WeBuyCars (WBC). The main benefit of this is to release the value of WBC into the hands of its shareholders. When the listing is complete, on 11th April 2024, WBC will have a total of 417,2m shares in issue which are expected to

Gold and Harmony

In our last Confidential Report, published on 6th March 2024, we drew your attention to the fact that the US dollar price of gold was about to break up through a critical resistance level at $2060. Gold has now moved up to $2166 so this observation provided an opportunity for private investors to make a significant capital gain, either in actual gold

Reverse Takeover

At the end of October 2023, Mix Telematics (MIX) was a relatively small fleet management company with a market capitalisation of just R2,3bn listed on both the JSE and the American NASDAQ. Its shares on the JSE were wallowing at a low of 380c. This compares with its competitor, Karoo (KRO), also listed on the JSE, but which was at the time, more

Rare Opportunity

You may not have been aware of it, but last week, between Monday and Friday, there was an opportunity to make an 80% profit on your capital. This opportunity occurred because of insider trading on a little known and traded share called Quantum Foods (QFH) in the poultry and animal feeds business.

Generally, the poultry business is

Excessive Bullishness

On Friday last week, the S&P500 index posted yet another new record closing high, but this time just one point higher than the previous day at 5088. This means that the index, which measures the progress of the 500 largest companies on Wall Street, has been climbing without a significant correction for nearly four months. Consider the chart:

Lessons from Transcap

As a private investor it is very important that you study what has happened in the past and learn from it. The progress of Transaction Capital (TCP) has provided us with an excellent opportunity to examine and learn from a complete cycle in an institutional favourite share. We can examine the entire cycle and see how to profit from it. In this regard, it is important

Sasol

Sasol is a company originally established in September 1950 by the National Party, to counter the possibility of petrochemical sanctions against the old South Africa. Essentially, Sasol used South Africa’s enormous coal reserves to generate about one third of its fuel requirements. Subsequently, Sasol became involved in the chemical industry which now accounts for about

4Sight

The world has, in the last twenty years, entered what has been characterised as the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). It has been described as “... the biggest structural change of the past 250 years — a transformation of scale, scope and complexity unlike anything humankind has experienced before.” In simpler terms, 4IR refers to the digital convergence of