You are probably right, certainly I don't need all the extra stuff that comes with the Software that I've looked at, as I am more than happy with my current charting software. The portfolio manager module of my software doesn't explicitly cater for CFD trading, so I was just interested in what other people were using, if it was commercial software or just excel (spreadsheets).
The developer of my software (Insight Trader) has now advised me of a way that I can enter CFD short sales in Portfolio manager, and it seems to work pretty well ( I still have to keep stock borrowing costs and interest on a separate spreadsheet).
I'd still be interested to hear from anyone that uses software such as Otrader or Stator.
