FrenzelSoft Stock Ticker User Manual
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1. 11 07 2008 21 00 The Wives Of Billionaires at Forbes com 11 07 2008 14 41 Farewell Gates et al at Forbes com 11 07 2008 14 30 UPDATE Fujitsu Siemens in talks over future of JV at Reuters 10 07 2008 19 29 Steve Jobs Nails It Again and Again at TheStreet com 10 07 2008 17 46 Dell Number One in SCSI SANs Worldwide Business Wire 10 07 2008 14 14 The Biggest Problem You Face When Investing at Motley Fool Picture 19 News menu 5 7 get stock price charts To get charts for a company in your list you have to click on the company s name A browser window will be opened showing this symbols information page at the Yahoo Finance website 5 8 get more information about Yahoo Finance To get to the Yahoo Finance website you can click on the Powered by Yahoo Finance API link in the footer of the GUI or visit http finance yahoo com 5 9 get information on the stock price delay If you are interested in how long the stock prices shown are delayed you can use the link at the bottom of the Add Symbol dialog Picture 9 On the website shown after clicking on this link you can get a list of all stock exchange suffixes and the times the stock prices of this stock exchange are delayed Stock Ticker v1 7 2 0 User Manual 23 O 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel 5 10 change the update intervals It s not possible to change the update intervals The update intervals are set to the following values e St2. Manual 9 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel 3 Context Menu Elements This chapter will explain all the elements available in the extended context menu shown in Picture 4 3 1 Show Hide This option is used to show hide the GUI The same effect can be achieved by clicking on the tray icon A double click on the tray icon hides the GUI and a single click on the tray icon shows the GUI and brings it to front 3 2 Add Symbol This option is used to add a new stock to the list A new sub dialog as shown in Picture 9 will open Here you need to enter the stocks symbol as used on Yahoo Finance website as all stock information is retrieved from the Yahoo Finance API If you don t know the correct for the company you want to add you can just enter the company s name in the text field and press the Find button A new browser window will open showing you a list of options with the corresponding symbols Please choose the symbol you are interested in and add paste it to the Add Symbol dialog By pressing the Ok button the stock will be added to the application Click here to get a list of exchange suffixes Picture 9 Add Symbol Dialog To get a list of all available stock exchanges the corresponding stock exchange suffixes and the delays of the stock prices provided for this stock click on the link at the bottom of this dialog If you do so a browser window will open showing you the information 3 3 Remove Symbol Here you can choose from
3. When this option is set the GUI displays only stocks you own By the settings in the Settings dialog see chapters 4 1 9 and 4 1 10 you can choose to show stocks that reached a min or max alert or that have unread news present as well 3 10 Settings This option opens the Settings dialog see chapter 4 3 11 Export Configuration This option allows the user to save the current configuration to a user specified xml file This file can be placed in the corresponding folder of another PC in order to transfer your configuration to another PC see chapter 5 11 11 3 12 Import Configuration This option allows the use to import a previously saved configuration from a user specified xml file This file will replace the automatically saved configuration file if present 3 13 Check for Updates This option is used to check whether there s a new version of the Stock Ticker available on the server If there is a new version available a list of all new features and bugfixes is displayed and you can choose whether to install An update check is done once a month on application start automatically too 3 14 Donate If you like this program and want to donate an arbitrary amount of money or donate by shopping at amazon de or amazon co uk you can choose between four options in the sub menu of this item You can either choose Donate in US or Donate in which will direct you the the FrenzelSoft donation page and where you can directly spend any
4. amount of money you like or choose Shop at amazon de or Shop at amazon co uk which will redirect you to the amazon site and will cause a promotion amount be granted from amazon for me 3 15 Send Feedback If you have any comments feature request or bugs to report you can use this option to send an email to let me know about it If you want to report a bug please be as specific as possible regarding the circumstances of the error and if possible attach a screenshot of the misbehaviour or error message shown in case of an crash 3 16 Help By this option this manual document can be opened from within the application 3 17 About This option displays the about box with the application s version 3 18 Exit This option will close the application 12 http www FrenzelSoft de 4 Settings This chapter explains all settings that can be done in the Settings dialog that can be opened using the context menu 4 1 General This chapter explains the settings on the Settings dialog s General tab Picture 10 shows the General tab of the Settings dialog Application and Stock Settings E le Opacity Columns p Opaque On Focus 75 E Always On Top E Show In Tray Only E Auto Start E Show Stocks Only Show Portfolio Only Settings Y Active Alerts F Unread News V Marked Watch List Stocks By 3 Column Close tocks I Sounds Proxy Picture 10 Settings Dialog General 4 1 1
5. has the focus the number of stocks and the price entered in the Price field are shown in a tool tip 16 4 2 3 Price Here you can enter the price at which you bought the stocks entered in the stocks field see chapter 4 2 2 If you enter a value and a price see chapter 4 2 3 for a company the change of the value for these stocks will be displayed in the GUI along with the stock price change When you move the mouse over the portfolio change element when the application has the focus the number of stocks and the price entered in the Price field are shown in a tool tip 4 2 4 News Symbol All news available for the corresponding company are marked in the GUI see chapter 2 By default the symbol added for the stock prices is used to retrieve the news too As Yahoo is providing the company news only for some symbols of the corresponding company usually the NASDAQ symbol you can enter another symbol that will be used to retrieve the company news Example If you add Dell to your stock list but you are interested in the stock price at XETRA to get prices you have to add Dell using the symbol DLCA DE for XETRA stock prices Because there is no Dell related news broadcasted for this symbol you can go the Settings dialog and enter the News Symbol DELL NASDAQ symbol to get all Dell related news from Yahoo Finance API 4 2 5 Disable News If you are not interested in the stock s news retrieving news can be disabled by checking
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7. the company news articles about the company the earnings announcement date will be shown here if available There s no link associated with the Earnings Announcement by click on this element 1t will be marked read 22 http www FrenzelSoft de Earning Announcement 28 08 2008 Mark all read 15 07 2008 15 49 Intel On Earnings Deck It s Laptops Laptops Laptops at CNBC 15 07 2008 15 20 Dell s Resurrection TechTicker 15 07 2008 12 08 How to Find the Right VC for Your Company at BusinessWeek 15 07 2008 08 57 Intel in low key launch for next gen wireless chip Reuters 14 07 2008 21 35 Yahoo s current board versus Icahn s challengers AP 14 07 2008 21 08 Dell Propels Laptop Innovation with First Multi Touch Convertible Tablet Larger Solid State Drive Business Wire 14 07 2008 21 07 The Secret to Marrying a Billionaire Brains at The Wall Street Journal Online 14 07 2008 18 53 The iPhone Is Just Getting Started at Motley Fool 14 07 2008 16 27 Dell puts multitouch on notebooks at Austin American Statesman 14 07 2008 13 00 And A Bag to Match New Designed for Dell Line Offers Colorful Accessories for Personalizing Hi Def Lifestyles Business Wire 13 07 2008 14 00 Read This Before the Market Crashes at Motley Fool 12 07 2008 12 00 This Stock Is Cheap or Is It at Motley Fool 12 07 2008 03 41 Look on the Bright Side at Barron s Online 11 07 2008 21 00 In Pictures The Wives Of Billionaires at Forbes com
8. the list of all added stocks which one to remove from the list If you remove a symbol stock from the list 1t will no longer be shown in the GUI and all entered information about the portfolio are lost 3 4 Remove This option removes the symbol stock shown in the context menu element text from the list see chapter 3 3 3 5 Update Stock Prices and News This option forces the application to update all information immediately instead of waiting for the next update interval The stock prices are automatically updated every five minutes and the company news every 30 minutes The GUI s title bar shows when the last update of the stock prices was done 3 6 Move To Top Move Up Move Down Move To Bottom These options can be used to change the order in which the stocks are displayed in the GUI Move Up will move the corresponding stock one position up and Move Down one position down Move To Top moves the corresponding stock to the first position and Move To Bottom to the last position If multicolumn display is chosen you can chose between row by row default only mode in version v1 1 0 0 and column by column see Picture 10 3 7 Mark All News Read This option marks all news from all stocks read at once 3 8 Disable News When this option is set no more news are retrieved If you want to disable retrieving news for some stocks only you can do this by the stock related settings dialog see Picture 1 3 9 Show Portfolio Only
9. your PC The Auto Start option is user specific so if you have multiple users log on to your PC this setting affects only the user who set this option 4 1 7 Show Stocks Only If this option is set the header and footer of the application s main window will not be shown If you want to save space on screen or just prefer the look of the application showing the stock information only you can set this option 4 1 8 List Stocks By There are two display modes in case of multi column view available If the stocks are displayed in more than column the stocks can be displayed in either row by row Row style or in column by column Column style 14 4 1 9 Portfolio Active Alerts When option Show Portfolio Only see chapter 3 9 is on only those stocks are shown in the GUI that you own see chapter 4 2 2 Additionally stocks that reached a min or max alert can be shown in this mode too This can be enabled disabled by this checkbox 4 1 10 Portfolio Unread News When option Show Portfolio Only see chapter 3 9 is on only those stocks are shown in the GUI that you own see chapter 4 2 2 Additionally stocks that have unread news available can be shown in this mode too This option can be enabled disabled by this checkbox Note Unread news of not displayed stocks is signalled using the tray icon anyway and can be accessed via context menu or right click on the tray icon 4 1 11 Portfolio Marked Watch When option Show
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11. OAN DE 4 Move To Bottom E ON N EOAN DE Mark All News Read Disable News Show Portfolio Only F4 Settings Export Configuration Be KR Import Configuration Check for Updates Donate Send Feedback Help FL About a Fou Exit Picture 4 Extended Context Menu As you can see in Picture 5 the last four stocks do not contain information in the portfolio change column This is the default look after adding a stock until you add information about how many stocks of which price are in your portfolio see chapter 5 4 If you open the context menu by right clicking any of these stock information lines the context menu will show the additional options as shown in Picture 4 Stock Ticker v1 7 2 0 User Manual 7 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel http www FrenzelSoft de 14 34 15 46 Er PHARMA 145 QIAGEN NV LA GPC BIOTECH A BEIERSDORF ADVANCED MICR 00 1 00 Powered by Yahoo Finance AP Picture 5 GUI with a number of stocks When unread news is available the tray icon will change to the icon shown from Picture 6 to Picture 7 Picture 6 Tray Icon with no unread news present Picture 7 Tray Icon with unread news present All stocks with unread news have the highlighted News lettering In Picture 5 only AMD has unread news available If you don t want to be notified about news you can either disable retrieving news at all by the Disable News option in the co
12. Opacity The slider can be used to adjust the opacity of the applications main window It can be set to any value between 0 and 100 in steps of 1 While moving the slider the applications main window changes according to the value set in the slider so you can easily find a setting that fits your needs best 4 1 2 Opaque On Focus If this option is the checked default the applications main window will always be opaque when the application has the focus no matter which opacity is set When the application 13 looses the focus the opacity changes back to the opacity setting If you uncheck this option the application s main window will always show the same opacity with or without focus 4 1 3 Columns If you have added a number of stocks and prefer a multi column layout of the stock information you can change the number of columns here 4 1 4 Always On Top If checked the application s main window will be always on top otherwise act like a normal window 4 1 5 Show In Tray Only If this option is checked default the application will not appear in the taskbar except for the tray icon If you want your application to act like any other application shown in the taskbar you can uncheck this option Note The alert notifications will not appear if this option unchecked see chapter 4 2 1 4 1 6 Auto Start If this option is set a registry key will be created to automatically start the application when you log on to
13. Portfolio Only see chapter 3 9 is on only those stocks are shown in the GUI that you own see chapter 4 2 2 Additionally you can set this option to display stocks you marked Watch in the GUI too see chapter 4 2 7 15 http www FrenzelSoft de 4 2 Stocks This chapter explains the settings on the Sertings dialog s Stocks tab Picture 11 shows the Stocks tab of the Settings dialog Application and Stock Settings _ EZ QUALCOMM Incorpor GCOM Stocks 1 1 Price 46 80 46 80 News Symbol GCOM QCOM Disable News F Invert Colors F Mark Watch 4 Alert Min 33 00 33 00 Y Alert Max 46 00 46 00 Apply Close Sounds Proxy Picture 11 Settings Dialog Stocks 4 2 1 Stock List Box Here you can choose the stock for which you want to view or edit the stock settings If the Settings dialog is opened from the extended context menu Picture 4 the stock you right clicked on will automatically been chosen in the stock list box All information displayed on the Stocks tab in the Settings dialog is related to the stock selected in this list box 4 2 2 Stocks Here you can enter the number of stocks you own of this company If you enter a value and a price see chapter 4 2 3 for a company the change of the value for these stocks will be displayed in the GUI along with the stock price change When you move the mouse over the portfolio change element when the application
14. a min or max alert The modes can be toggled by using the Show Portfolio Only option in the context menu see chapter 3 9 5 20 watch specific stocks If you want to keep an eye on specific stocks and need a highlight function for these stocks you can set the Mark Watch option see chapter 4 2 7 The corresponding stocks will then be displayed highlighted see Picture 12 To toggle whether to display this stock in Show Portfolio Only mode see chapter 3 9 you can use the option in the settings dialog see chapter 4 1 11 26 6 Questions Comments Contact If you have any further questions not answered by this manual or any comments feature proposals or bug reports please send an email to StockTicker FrenzelSoft de If you like this program or just want to say Hey it s helpful I appreciate any positive comments as well If you like this program and want to support the further development you can make a donation of your choice via PayPal using the donation link at the website http www FrenzelSoft de Note Donations are voluntary You will never have to buy any sort of license to use this program wherever you downloaded it It s complete freeware for private non commercial use 7 Acknowledgement Pd like to thank Yahoo for providing a free API to retrieve stock prices and company information in a client application Special thanks go to the Beta testers Sascha and Werner for testing the app
15. and before the first start you need to create the subdirectory FrenzelSoft StockTicker manually Please Not Some of these subfolders might not be visible in Windows Explorer due to its folder options You can copy the whole path to the Windows Explorer address bar which will lead you the folder or enable the Show hidden files and folders option in the Windows Explorer folder options dialog 24 5 12 import application settings With version 1 6 0 you have two ways of importing previously exported settings You can either manually copy the settings xml file to the corresponding Application Data folder or use the Import Configuration feature from the context menu see chapter 3 12 In case of manually copying and assuming your local system hard disc drive is drive C you have to store the settings xml file under Windows XP in folder C Documents and Settings lt user name gt Application Data FrenzelSoft StockTicker And under Windows Vista or Windows 7 in folder C Users lt user name gt AppData Roaming FrenzelSoft StockTicker Where lt user name gt is your login user name 5 13 disable retrieving news News retrieval can be disabled for each stock independently or for all stocks at once On how to disable news retrieval for a single stock see chapter 4 2 5 and on how to disable news retrieval for all stocks see chapter 3 8 5 14 check for updates With version v1 2 0 0 there is an update check integrated
16. e balloon has to be ignored it closes automatically after about 30 seconds or been closed using the close button in the top right corner of the balloon tip The balloon tip can be closed by clicking in the text area as well but this causes the balloon tip notification to be disabled and no more balloon tips will be shown until the application is restarted 19 ttp www FrenzelSoft de 43 Sounds This chapter explains the settings on the Settings dialog s Sounds tab Picture 17 shows the Sounds tab of the Settings dialog Application and Stock Settings el F Alert Min Sound F Alert Max Sound Sounds General Stocks Picture 17 Settings Dialog Sounds All settings done in this dialog apply for all stocks It s not possible to set different sounds for the stocks 4 3 1 Alert Min Sound When this option is enabled a wav file or system sound can be chosen to be played when a Min Alert happens To choose a system sound just choose one from the drop down box which should initialized with the system sounds available on your PC To manually choose a wav file to be played the Browse button can be used With the play button the sound currently chosen in the drop down box can be played as preview 4 3 2 Alert Max Sound All settings are analog to those described in chapter 4 3 1 Alert Min Sound just apply to the Max Alert instead of Min Alert http www FrenzelSoft de 4 4 Proxy If you connect to the inter
17. ecessessecececceeceesensasecececeesesessnsseeeeeeesesenssteaeees 27 Acknowledgement toee as 27 Table of Figures Picture 1 License Agreement Dialoe an aan ae eu 5 Picture 2 Default GUI with no stocks displayed oooonocccnnococooocccooncncnoncnononcnononcnononcnononcconnncnnnns 5 Picture 3 Minimal Context Men til dt a i e 6 Picture 4 Extended Context Meninas idad dra 7 Picture 5 GUI with a number of stocks a ae Bebauung 8 Picture 6 Tray Icon with no unread news present eseeseesseseeesessresresstseresresseserssresseseresresseseee 8 Picture 7 Tray Icon with unread news present une anne 8 Picture 8 Context Menu on Tray Icon with unread news present ooooonoocccnoccccooncncnoncnononanonananonns 9 Piet re 9 Add Symbol Dialer zn A ee 10 Picture 10 Settings Dialog General ii di 13 Picture 11 Settings Dialog Stocks es das 16 Picture 12 Stock that has been marked Watch 22002200r20rsnnennnnessnersnnennnennnnnnnnensnnennne 18 Picture 13 Max Alert Balloon a ies 18 Pietur amp 14 Max Alert GUT 2 2 ee 18 Picture 15 Min Alert Balloon Tip u a ins ii la 18 Picture 16 Mn Alert ett ela ed de cepto De een 18 Picture 17 Settings Dialog SOUndS 0 aaa 20 Picture 18 Settings Dialog Proxy 244 41 eGR ie Si ae Sl eae 21 Picture T9 News Me WU needs Diet 23 http www FrenzelSoft de 1 First Start When starting the application the first time the license agreement dialog Picture 1 will appear Please read all terms o
18. f the license agreement carefully If you accept all terms of the license agreement click the Accept button otherwise Decline Note Declining the license agreement will cause the application to close In order to use the application you need to accept all terms of the license agreement 7 Lane geet O License Agreement Copyright c 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel License agreement for the package FrenzelSoft Stock Ticker 1 All copyrights to this package are exclusively owned by the author Gunnar Frenzel 2 Anyone may use this software freely for private non commercial purposes It s not necessary at any point to purchase a licence Nevertheless if you like this program and want to support the future development any comments bug reports and feature request are welcome and can be sent to Stock Ticker FrenzelSoft de Donations are voluntary and can be sent via PayPal using the donation link on the website htto 4www FrenzelSoft de 3 The package may be freely distributed with exceptions noted below provided the distribution _ package is not modified in any way a No person or company may distribute separate parts of the package b The package may not be distributed inside of any other software package without written permission of the copyright owner 4 The package is distributed AS 15 No warranty of any kind is expressed or implied if you decide to use the application it s at your own risk Neither the aut
19. hor nor the agents of the author will be liable for data loss damages loss of profits or any other kind of loss while using or misusing this software 5 All stock related information provided by this application are retrieved by using the Yahoo Finance API The author of this package will not be liable for any incorrect or misleading information ar any consequences resultina from the decisions made due tn the information Picture 1 License Agreement Dialog If you decide to accept the license agreement the application will start with default GUI shown in Picture 2 Stock Ticker v1 7 2 0 User Manual 5 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel ttp www FrenzelSoft de 2 Basic Elements With the default configuration the application will come up showing a tray icon only If you want the application to be shown in the task bar instead you can change the Show in Tray Only option in the settings dialog chapter 4 1 5 All settings are done using the context menu of the GUI window or the tray icon You can open the context menu by right click on either the GUI window or the tray icon The options in the context menu depend on where the context menu is opened The context menu opened on an added stock contains more options than those on the tray icon or the empty GUI shown in Picture 2 The look of the context menus are shown in Picture 3 and Picture 4 Show Hide Add Symbol F2 Remove Symbol Update Stock Prices and New
20. in the application If you want to stay up to date with the latest available version of FrenzelSoft Stock Ticker you don t need to do anything The application is checking for newer version automatically once a month If you want to start an update check manually you can do this by the Check for Updates option in the context menu see chapter 3 13 Picture 3 and Picture 4 5 15 change stock display from row by row to column by column style If you prefer the stocks displayed column by column instead of row by row you can switch between these display styles in the settings dialog see chapter 4 1 8 5 16 play sounds on Min or Max alerts See chapter 4 3 for details 25 5 17 send feedback feature request bug reports To send your feedback feature requests or bug reports you can use the email address or link in chapter 6 or use the Send Feedback option from the application s context menu If you want to report a bug please provide as many information as possible concerning the circumstances of the problem and if possible a screenshot showing the misbehaviour or the complete text from the error message especially in case of a crash 5 18 use Stock Ticker with a proxy server See chapter 4 4 for details 5 19 filter stocks displayed Currently you can choose between two display modes The first one default is to show all stocks added The second one is to show only those stocks you own and those that reached
21. lication and providing feedback for additional features and design issues Microsoft Windows and the Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Yahoo is a registered trademark of Yahoo Inc 27
22. mits set for this company 1f present will be shown in a tool tip The alert will be done in two ways First if you didn t uncheck the Show In Tray Only option in the Settings dialog see chapter 4 1 5 there will be a balloon tip on the tray icon Picture 13 and Picture 15 in the taskbar Second the stock price in the applications main window will be displayed in a different colour In case of a Min Alert stock price fall below specified Min Alert value it s written in red Picture 16 In case a Max Alert stock price raised above specified Max Alert value it s written in light green Picture 14 The balloon tip will be shown only once when the stock price reaches the limit specified the colour change in the stock price will be kept as long as the limit is reached 1 21 23 41 Min Alert for WILEX x The stock price for WILEX WL6 DE reached 3 17 and fall below min limit of 3 20 Picture 13 Max Alert Balloon Tip Picture 14 Max Alert GUI x The stock price for WILEX WL6 DE reached 3 17 and exceeded max limit of 3 10 Picture 15 Min Alert Balloon Tip BEIERSDORF 0 99 Picture 16 Min Alert GUI Stock Ticker v1 7 2 0 User Manual 18 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel The balloon tip contains the stock s name and symbol as well as the time at which the limit was reached the limit set and the stock price at the time of reaching the limit set If all later alerts are supposed to be shown with a balloon tip th
23. net using a proxy serer you can enter your proxy server s address and port number here E Use HTTP Proxy Server Server Address Fi _ Proxy requires authentication User Name Password Picture 18 Settings Dialog Proxy Stock Ticker v1 7 2 0 User Manual 21 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel 5 How To This chapter contains a summary of likely use cases and how to use the application in the given situations 5 1 adda company to the list See chapter 3 2 for details 5 2 remove a company from the list See chapters 3 3 and 3 4 for details 5 3 change the order of the stocks displayed See chapter 3 6 for details 5 4 set portfolio information See chapters 4 2 2 and 4 2 3 for details 5 5 seta stock price alert alarm See chapter 4 2 8 for details 5 6 get company news When you add a company to the list the company news will be retrieved automatically If you don t use the NASDAQ symbol for the company see chapter 4 2 4 for further information When unread news are present for the company the news icon will be highlighted Picture 5 If so just click or right click on the news icon to get a list of all news headlines By click on any of these news a browser window will open showing the news and the element will be marked read You can set all elements to read by the Mark all read element Picture 19 All unread news are bold read news are not bold Besides
24. ntext menu see Picture 3 and Picture 4 which is going to disable retrieving news for all stocks or by the Disable News option in the stock specific Settings dialog see Picture 11 which is going to disable retrieving news for the corresponding stock only Please note Even if you disable news the news lettering might be highlighted This can be caused by present unread news disabling news does not discard already received news or by Earning Announcement dates for the stocks Even when news is disabled the Earning Announcement dates are still retrieved and signalled using the highlighted News lettering and the Tray icon as well If unread news is present the context menu on the tray has an additional option to easily access all unread news by stock see Picture 8 Stock Ticker v1 7 2 0 User Manual 8 2008 2010 by Gunnar Frenzel http www FrenzelSoft de Show Hide gt Add Symbol F2 X Remove Symbol gt Update Stock Prices and News F5 News Mark All News Read Disable News Show Portfolio Only F4 Settings Export Configuration Yu Import Configuration Check for Updates Donate Send Feedback Help FL About Ou Exit Picture 8 Context Menu on Tray Icon with unread news present If you want to mark all news from all stocks read at once you can use the Mark All News Read option in the context menu see chapter 3 7 Picture 3 and Picture 4 Stock Ticker v1 7 2 0 User
25. ock Prices 5 minutes e Company News 30 minutes e Earnings Announcements 3 hours 5 11 export the application settings to another computer With version 1 3 0 you have two ways to achieve this The first way is to copy the settings xml manually as in earlier versions The second way is by using the Export Configuration option in the context menu see chapter 3 11 In order to use the settings from a specific settings xml file in the application it has to be copied to the path described in the following text containing the description for manually copying the settings xml file If you added several stocks to the Stock Ticker on a computer and want to export these settings stocks min alerts max alerts application settings etc to another computer for example from Desktop PC to Laptop you just need to copy the application s settings xml file to the target computer after installing the Stock Ticker there Assuming your local system hard disc drive is drive C you can find the settings xml file under Windows XP in folder C Documents and Settings lt user name gt Application Data FrenzelSoft StockTicker And under Windows Vista or Windows 7 in folder C Users lt user name gt AppData Roaming FrenzelSoft StockTicker Where lt user name gt is your login user name The directory and file are created during the first run of the application so if you want to import settings from another computer after installing the Stock Ticker
26. s F5 Mark All News Read Disable News Show Portfolio Only F4 S Settings EJ Export Configuration F5 Import Configuration Check for Updates Donate Send Feedback Help FL About a Fou Exit Picture 3 Minimal Context Menu When stocks are added the GUI shows each stock with an element containing the company s name the symbol determining the stock exchange to retrieve this company s stock price from the stock price the change of the stock price the change of this stocks portfolio value and the company news Picture 5 shows the GUI with a number of stocks added where the left of the two coloured columns shows this stock s stock price change and the right of the two coloured columns shows the change of this stock s portfolio value The value between the stock s name and the http www FrenzelSoft de first coloured column contains the stock price retrieved at the time shown in the title bar As you can see all positive changes for the stock value are marked green negative changes are marked red and no change is marked grey If the News element is white there is new unread news present for this stock In the example there are no unread news present unless for AMD in the last but one line Show Hide Add Symbol F2 Remove Symbol Remove E ON N EOAN DE Update Stock Prices and News F5 XX Move To Top E ON N EOAN DE Move Up E ON N EOAN DE Move Down E ON N E
27. this checkbox This setting applies to the stock chosen in the stock list box only If you want to disable retrieving news for all stocks use the Disable News option in the context menu see Picture 3 and Picture 4 4 2 6 Invert Colors By default increasing stock prices are displayed with a green and decreasing stock prices are displayed with ared color If you want to invert this behaviour to show increasing stock prices red and decreasing stock prices green you can choose this option This can be handy if you have for example PUT options on a stock and set your stock price see 4 2 3 to the break even value of your PUT option An increasing stock price would then be negative for you and is displayed with a red color 4 2 7 Mark Watch If you want to have an eye on specific stocks you can set a marker on these stocks If this option is set all marked stocks will be displayed coloured see Picture 12 and can optionally be displayed in the Show Portfolio Only mode too see chapter 4 1 11 17 http www FrenzelSoft de 46 99 gt Picture 12 Stock that has been marked Watch 4 2 8 Alert Min Alert Max Here you can set stock prices for the corresponding company to get notified when the stock price fall below Alert Min or exceed Alert Max the price you entered This can be used to set limits at which you want to buy or sell stocks When you move the mouse over when the application has the focus the stock price the li
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