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Backing up your Chartsmart Custom Lists

Friday, June 24, 2005

In the case of computer problems you risk of losing the work you have done in creating your portfolios, watch lists, and personal filter lists. These are contained in a few files which are in your ChartSmart directory called:

private1.dbf, private1.fptdayfilt.dbf, dayfilt.fptmemos.dbf, memos.fptfgroups.dbf. fgroups.fpttools.dbf, tools.fptmemdata.dbf, memdata.fpt

You can simply copy these files to a floppy disk or you may wish to use this menu to do it for you. First, select the floppy drive, a or b, that you will be working with. Then put a diskette in and click on the button. To restore, place the disk in your floppy drive and click .

Stock Indicies

When using ChartSmart, you may wonder where you can get a list of the indicies and currencies provided in the software. You can find them by clicking HELP when you are in chartsmart then click on [WEB listing of index symbols]. This will display the symbols and names of them.

ChartSmart Free Month for Referrals

Thursday, June 16, 2005

As of June 2003 ChartSmart subscribers will receive 1 free month of service when they refer a new subscriber to us. Be sure to mention to your friends, that if they subscribe, to let us know your name so that we can give you credit.
In addition, we now offer group rates. For example, if you are a part of brokerage firm and a number of users within it collectively use ChartSmart, you may qualify for a group rate.

More on Cup Chart Patterns in ChartSmart

I have pasted a formula just below for the CUP and Handle.

(#92h50#>(1.15*#60H50#)).and.(#92h50#>#CLOSE#).AND.(#CLOSE#>(1.1*#60H50#)).AND.(#8WKC0#>#22WKC0#).AND.(#102WKC0#<#92H50#).AND.(#CLOSE#>#15WKC0#)

This formula looks back about 142 trading days (92+50 days) and then looks for a decrease in value over a period starting 60 trading days ago to 110 trading days ago. The decrease in value must be at least 15% of the highest value in a 50 day period from 110 trading days ago to 50 trading days ago. then the current close is compared to the same period and then the following weeks to determine if the stock has continued to increase in value but has still not reached the handle.

Saucer Pattern

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Chartsmart's professional version allows you a lot more flexibility in stock screening because you can specify the value of the open, high,low,close and volume plus all kinds of indicator values for up to about 200 days back. This allows you to construct patterns, like saucers for example where you can specify what the closing prices are for the stock over the last x days in relation to eachother. For example, 6 days ago it is over 20% above 5 days ago and 5 days ago it is 10% above 4 days ago and so on. This allows a lot of screening flexibility then you can just run your screen and view the charts.

Stock Chart books

Did you know that ChartSmart also supplies Independent Survey Company Chartbooks. You can get more information at www.chartbooks.com. You can get stock chart books for the Canadian Markets, resource or industrial, or long term. You can get a Nasdaq and New York Chartbooks for US exchanges.