Investor's Forum: Program Investor Online Help

Getting Started

Using Help

FAQ

Quick Guide

Resources

What's New

Getting started

If you have not already installed your new Program Investor software, begin by reading some information on installation and other preliminaries. Before you begin using with your Program Investor , take a few moments to read an overview of Using Help and of the many resources available to users. You have access to instructional videos, Investor Plugins, templates, user communities, seminars, tutorials, and much more.

This part includes:

Updated:Sep 24, 2007 • Document ID: 00-32 • Name: SKT

FAQs

Welcome to the Program Investor’s general questions and answers area. We often update the questions that are frequently asked about Program Investor software. The questions and answers came from seasonal investors, and professional investor like you. If you like to ask us general question please ask them in our forums and discussion section. Click here. We hope your find them helpful and informative.

Before Subscription Questions:

No.	Question & Answer
1.	Q: How can we offer Program Investor at such an affordable price?
	A: Investor’s Forum goal is to empower professional investors and seasonal traders like you with great trading platform which has ability to perform sophisticate analysis studies or simple charting techniques professionally without high cost of maintenance fee. Secondly, we would like to support local investor a chance to have high quality tool for your day to day trading activities.
2.	Q: Is Program Investor suitable for chartist and stock expert only?
	A: Becoming skillful in technical stock analysis is a foundation of becoming successful in stock market, no less than skill you will need for fundamental analysis. Program Investor is designed for every type of investors. It supports not only expert’s complex and sophisticate stock analysis, but also novice’s simple indicators and simple chart drawing. The interface is simple and easy to use. This allows you to extend your experience and knowledge in the market up to your potential. You can also take advantage of data feed plug in to view your data on your Microsoft Excel, and any other specific analysis tools for further studies.
3.	Q: Why Program Investor?
	A: Many fundamental data reports or simple technical analysis tools are already available to you free by brokerage websites, yahoo.com, Bloomberg.com, google.com, or reuters.com. However, you will not likely find the same features available in Program Investor as affordable as we offer you. It is extremely cost saving.
4.	Q: If I have Technical Analysis, TA software already why should I try Program Investor?
	A: Unlike many other TA software which do not provide market data feed. Program Investor not only is affordable, it also offers you real-time market data feed. Moreover, you have an ability to use the same data feed onto your other TA software.

Technical Issue Questions:

No.	Question & Answer
1.	Q: Is Program Investor compatible with Windows Vista?
	No. However, you can run Program Investor under Windows Vista by making the Compatibility Mode and Privilege Level selections shown below. To do so, locate the main Program Investor installation directory, right click the Program Investor executable file, and select Properties.
2.	Q: How to use symbol search if I do not know any symbols?
	A: You can search your symbols by symbol name or company name (description), using any letters. You can also use * whenever you want to blank in your input such as, .bk, ban, and etc.
3.	What is the different between ‘Symbol:’ and ‘Insert Symbol’ button?
	A: Please see the picture, the ‘Symbol:’ button is used when you want to change current symbol, for an instance, changing symbol of your chart. On the other hand, ‘Insert Symbol’ button is used when you want to add another symbol, for an instance, add another symbol to your chart.

Service Questions:

No.	Question & Answer
1.	Q: If I have questions about software where do I ask them?
	A: If your question is generic and would benefit other users please post them on discussion forum page. Otherwise, please send email via Contact us page.

Updated:Nov 27, 2007 • Document ID: 00-13 • Name: SKT

Quick Reference Guide

This part includes:

User Interface
Login and Start Up
Quotes Object
Chart Object
Market Depth Object
News Monitor Object
HeadLines Object
News Manager Object
Times & Sales Object
Web Browser Object
Quote Ticker Object
News Ticker Object
Option Chain Object
Future Chain Object
Symbol Details Object
Symbol Chain Object
Symbol Pool Object
Blank Workspace Object

User Interface

A. Main Menu Bar

B. Standard Tool Bar

C. Help Tool Bar

D. Chart Tool Bar

E. Views Tool Bar

F. Drawing Tool Bar

G. Object

H. Space

I. Workspace

1.1 Enter your User name and Password – If you do not have them, please contact your agency.

1.2 To connect with live data click ‘Connect’ or select ‘Work Offline’ to work offline.

At the bottom of your work station the green light indicates that you are connecting online, if Red you are not connected.

Quotes Object

Step 2. Click ‘New’ to create a new object.

To work with Quote Object click General Tab > Quotes

Step 3.1 Choose Online > Online Data Server on the left tab to work with live data. You may also select tab Local or Additional if you like to work with other data sources.

Step 3.2 In Field Section choose search data base by Description or Symbol. For an instance, select Symbol.

Step 3.3 Enter your search keywords here in Text field Search For. You may use * in this search field for blind search, e.g. *.bk. For all Thai stocks will follow with .bk as suffix.

Step 3.4 Press Search to begin your search.

Step 3.5 Select a desired symbol in the list, with a double click. In some cases you can select multiple symbols using a Shift Key.

Step 3.6 Click OK to finish with your search.

You will receive a Quote object with your symbol as below.

With Quote object you can insert new symbol by Right Mouse Click > Insert Symbol… (Ins). You will be presented to the Step 3. If you select Right Mouse Click > Format Grid you can manually set many parameters for the Quote object.

Below is Grid Options window properties.

Chart Object

To create a chart browse from New > General > Chart. Search your symbol following in Step 3. After that you will see a Symbol Properties Window.

In Periodicity section select your desire chart interval e.g. by Tick, Minute, day, or week. Additionally, you may explore further to set other parameter in other tabs such as colors, scaling and etc. Click OK to view your new chart.

Market Depth Object

To create a new Market Depth browse from New > General > Market Depth. In general this is a Level II quote for your symbol. While in Thailand you will see 3x3 bid/ask.

Follow on Step 3 to search your symbol, click OK to finish.

Times & Sales Object

To create a new Time & Sale browse from New > General > Time & Sale. Time & Sale shows you the historical traded, bid, ask, and volume traded. You may select to see them in different time interval.

Follow Step 3 to search your symbol and click OK.

Select your prefer time interval and click OK.

Web Browser Object

To create a web browser browse from New > General > Web Browser. You can enter your web URL address as by your desires.

Quote Ticker Object

To create a new Quote Ticker browse from New > Additional > Quote Ticker.

Follow the Step 3 to search your symbol.

Use Right Mouse Click > Format Quote Ticker to bring up Quotes Ticker Properties window. From here you may apply some format changes and add or remove symbols.

Option Chain Object

To create a new option window browse from New > Additional > Option Chain. You will select your symbol following in the step 3.

Future Chain Object

To create a new Future Quotes browse from New > Additional > Future Chain. Search for Future symbols in the step 3. Click OK to view Future quotes.

Symbol Details Object

To create a Symbol Details browse from New > Additional > Symbol Details. Search for your symbol in the step 3 and click OK.

Symbol Chain Object

To create a Symbol Chain Quotes browse from New > Additional > Symbol Chain Object. Search your symbol, normally you can try symbol that represent an index, a sector, or an industry. For an instance: set50.bk. When click OK you will receive the quotes of your underline symbol.

Symbol Pool Object

To create a histogram view browse from New > Additional > Symbol Pool. Search your symbol in the step 3

Using Right Mouse Click > Format Symbol Pool Chart you can manually change many parameters including add or remove symbols.

Blank Workspace Object

To create a new workspace browse from New > Workspace > Blank Workspace. Click OK.

Don’t for get to save your workspace after finish your work if you desire to keep it for the next time.

Updated:Nov 05, 2007 • Document ID: 00-32 • Name: SKT