ChartSmart™

Creating a Watched List

by Marco den Ouden

To create a Watched List with ChartSmart™, simply click on the button in the top menu labeled “zwtch”. This brings up a menu that looks like the one that pops up when you click the link below.

ChartSmart™ Watched List Menu

Click on Add New Watch List and a small menu comes up asking you to give the Watch List a name.  After naming it, click “Accept” and the name of the Watch List shows up in the yellow bar. Now you can add stocks to it. Click Search for a Symbol and the same menu pops up as when you click on “next” (see last issue). When you find a stock you want to add, highlight it and click “accept” and it will be added to the list. Keep adding as many as you want.

If you’re progressively sifting through stock charts and want to add the one you’re looking at to a Watch List, click on “zwtch” again and then click on “Add the Displayed Chart”.

Double clicking on any stock in the Watch List will bring up its chart. To get back to the Watch List from the chart, click on “zwtch” again.

You can sort your Watch List alphabetically or by a lot of different criteria. Click on “Sorting Symbols in Watch List” for the different criteria available.

You can create several Watch Lists and select the one you want to look at with the drop down menu (the yellow bar). And once you have a Watch List open, you can scan through the charts by clicking on the “View Charts” button.

The View Charts button brings up the following window:

If you click on the “Begin Scrolling” button, the chart of the first stock on the list comes up.  You can then scroll through all the charts by clicking “forw” or “back” on the main menu.

One particularly handy feature is the little button with the globe on it. Click on it and a new window opens that shows all your Watch List stocks in a list at Yahoo Finance on the Internet. You’ll also note that the Yahoo page pops up through an internal browser built in to ChartSmart™.  Because ChartSmart™ is software running from a database downloaded to your hard drive, it does not give live quotes. But you can get delayed quotes from Yahoo Finance with a click of the mouse.

At the top of the browser are some additional menu buttons including one called Web Links. This brings up a list of links to sites such as Silicon Investor, Ask Research, the Toronto Stock Exchange, Kitco and Trusted Connexions which is a stock market education site.

The Refresh Quotes button brings you back to the Yahoo Finance page again.

If you haven’t already tried ChartSmart™, visit their website to download it and try it for free for thirty days. It’s a very handy tool and you’ll constantly discover something new in it, it has so many features.

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