NetProphet Help
NetProphet is comprised of two windows; the quote minder window, and the
main window.
The quote minder window monitors the stocks in your portfolio, displaying their
current information and warning you if a stock's price strays out of its alarm
limits.
If a stock's price exceeds the upper alarm limit, that stock is displayed in blue
and yellow. If a stock's price is below the lower alarm limit, that stock is
displayed in red and yellow. If a stock is up for the day, that stock is displayed
with green text. If a stock is down for the day, that stock is displayed with pink
text. When the stock starts to update the background will darken, it will then
return to normal when the stock is updated or if it does not update it will stay
dark until it does update.
Any stock in the Quote Minder window can be plotted, simply by
double-clicking on the stock symbol.
The Portfolio Card allows you to change the contents of your portfolio, and
modify the alarm limits for a given stock.
The Preferences Card allows you to specify what pieces of information are
displayed in the quote minder window.
The main window is where you view the day's information, examine charts,
modify your stock portfolio, adjust program settings, and so on.
The components of main window consist of the card stack, the pulldown menu,
the status bar, the stocks rated to achieve the best/worst price performance, the
logo, and the current advertisement.
Note: If you close the Main Window, the Quote Minder window will remain
active. To recall the Main Window, simply click on the current time or Price
labels on the top line of the Quote Minder window. The Main Window will also
be recalled when new plots are requested, or when a new day's stock ratings
are received. To close all windows and exit NetProphet, press File, then Exit
from the pulldown menu, or close both the Main Window and the Quote Minder
window.
The majority of the main window is taken up by the card stack. The stack
consists of five green tab cards which lie atop one another. Each of these is
accessible by clicking on its tab, which protrudes from the bottom of the card
and is labeled with that card's topic.
The five cards are the Report card, which displays important market and
historical performance information that is updated daily, the Charts card, which
displays charts of stock market data, the Portfolio card, which allows you to
modify the stocks in your portfolio, the News card, which allows you to look up
stock related news by entering the ticker symbol, and the Preferences card,
which allows you to alter various program settings.
This card summarizes yesterday's market performance, and reports price
performance for stocks highlighted one month ago. The Report Card is updated
daily after the market closes (on trading days).
Here you can chart the progress of any available stock, mutual fund, or index
using a number of graphing methods. Information for the current security is
displayed in the lower left corner of this card.
Two gray sub-cards labeled Price and Indicator allow the user to control how
stock data is formatted in the chart.
- To create a chart of a stock in your portfolio:
- Double-click on the desired stock in the Quote Minder. This will cause
the charts card to move to the top of the card stack, and display the
selected stock. Or double-click on the stock symbol on the Portfolio
Card.
- To create a chart of one of the stocks rated to achieve the best/worst
price performance:
- Click on the desired stock in the stocks rated to achieve the best/worst
price performance button group. This will cause the charts card to move
to the top of the card stack, and display the selected stock.
- To create a chart of an arbitrary stock:
- Type in the ticker symbol of the desired stock into the field available in the
lower left hand corner of the Charts card.
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- To Zoom a chart, enlarging some point on the chart so that it fills the
entire chart panel
- Double-click on the chart panel near the desired date. The chart will show
an enlarged view of all charted data centered on that date.
- To Select data on a chart, enlarging some range of the chart so that it
fills the entire chart panel
- Click on the chart panel starting near the desired start date, then drag until
the displayed range bar extends near the desired end date. The chart will
show an enlarged view of all charted data over that range. The number of
days selected will appear in a box on the top line of the chart.
- To UnZoom a chart,
- Click on the UNZOOM button that appeared on the top line of the chart
when a Zoom or Select operation was performed.
- News Button
- This button will bring up the News card and search information for the
current stock charted.
- Volume
- Select this toggle to display the selected stock's volume as red (price
falling) or green (price rising) bars.
- Stochastics
- Select this toggle to display the selected stock's stochastics, calculated
using a 10-day period. Stochastics are a momentum or price velocity
indicator.
- K=(Price - L)/(H - L)*100
- Price - closing price for the day
- L - n-period low price
- H - n-period high price
- n - any number (usually 5-21), our default is a 10 day period
- Moving Average of Convergence/Divergence
- Select this toggle to display the MACD chart of this stock, calculated
using 10-day versus 30-day moving averages. MACD is a price
momentum indicator based on the difference between two moving
averages(MA) of the closing price.
- MACD = (MA10 - MA30)/MA30*100
- Money Flow
- Select this toggle to display the stock's money flow. This is an indicator
similar to OBV.
- On Balanced Volume
- Select this toggle to display the on balanced volume for the given stock.
This is a volume trend quantification.
- OBV = SUM[(C - Cp)/|C - Cp| * V/100]
- C - current periods closing price(period 1 day)
- Cp - previous periods closing price
- |C - Cp| - absolute value of the difference between closing prices.
- V - current periods volume
- Price Rate of Change
- Select this toggle to display the rate of change of the price of the given
stock, calculated using a 20-day period. PROC is a price momentum or
velocity indicator. Divide current price minus the price n-weeks ago by
the price n-weeks ago (We use 20 days or 4 weeks) and scale by 100.
This is bounded to not exceed 100 or drop below -100.
- ROC = MIN( MAX[(Price - Price20) / Price20 * 100, -100], 100)
- Price - Closing price of stock for the day
- Price20 - Closing price of stock 20 days before Price
- MIN - Minimum of values
- MAX - Maximum of values
- Std dev Price Rate of Change
- Select this toggle to display standard deviation of the rate of change of the
price of the given stock, calculated using a 15-day period.
- Relative Strength
- Select this toggle to chart the relative strength of the currently selected
stock, versus the symbol in the Index text box. Ratio of one data series to
another. Stock price divided by a general market index or another stock
to show the trend or performance of the stock relative to the market as a
whole or another stock.
- RS=( (Price/Price20) / (IPrice/IPrice20) - 1.0) * 100
- Price - Closing price of stock for the day
- Price20 - Closing price of stock 20 days before Price
- IPrice - Closing price of Index(or stock) for the day
- IPrice20 - Closing price of Index(or stock) 20 days before IPrice
- Index text box
- Enter an index(or stock) symbol to plot over the stock plot for a
comparison plot. The second symbol is offset to start at the same place
on the chart, and scaled to reflect similar percent change as similar vertical
displacement.
- Bollinger band
- Select this toggle to display Bollinger bands. These bands mark one
standard deviation above and below the 30-day price average.
- Candlestick
- Select this toggle to display a candlestick chart. Candlesticks show the
opening and closing price for the day and if the stock's price was up or
down for the day on the chart for the displayed stock.
- Prediction
- Select this toggle to display the Prediction plot. It shows the neural model
output for any stock for as long as the model has been running. Color
changes in the positive direction shows the stock performing better than
the market average and in the negative direction shows the stock to be
performing worse than the market average. A white only bar means the
stock did not stand out enough to make an opinion.
- Ratings below -200 predict performance much worse than market
average. (red)
Ratings between -200 and -100 predict performance worse than market
average (magenta)
Ratings between -100 and +100 predict average performance. (white)
Ratings between +100 and +200 predict performance better than market
average. (yellow)
Ratings above +200 predict performance much better than market
average. (green)
- Average 5-day
- Select this toggle to display a line over the price, indicating the 5-day
moving average of the price.
- Average 10-day
- Select this toggle to display a line over the price, indicating the 10-day
moving average of the price.
- Average 30-day
- Select this toggle to display a line over the price, indicating the 30-day
moving average of the price.
This card displays your current portfolio of stocks in a spreadsheet-like form.
The column labeled current lists the current prices of each stock in the portfolio.
The columns labeled Alarm low and Alarm high denote the minimum and
maximum price each stock may reach before an alarm is set off.
- To add a stock to your portfolio:
- Click on the Add/Change Symbol button. Enter the desired ticker
symbol and press tab. Enter a low price alarm and press tab. Enter a high
price alarm and press enter.
- To remove a stock from your portfolio:
- Click on the desired stock in the spreadsheet. It should become dark to
inform you it has been selected. Click on the Delete Selected Symbol
button.
- To alter a high or low price alarm setting:
- Click on the desired stock in the spreadsheet. Then click on the
Add/Change Symbol button and enter the new alarm limits.
This card allows the user to enter the ticker symbol of a stock the user is
interested in and receive links (Blue text) to news feeds related to that company
and the stock. This page also works as a basic browser that allows users to
click on these links and then go to these stories and provides a BACK button to
go to the previous page like a normal browser.
There are three ways to display the news feature for a particular stock. One can
click on the news button on the Charts card to display the news for the current
stock plotted or can type the ticker symbol into the field in the News Card and
then hit enter or press the GO button.
Other buttons on the News card include ADD and CHART. CHART will chart
the stock in the Enter Symbol window and ADD will add that stock to one's
portfolio.
The toggle buttons on this card allow you to customize the behavior of
NetProphet.
- Display prices as fractions/decimals
- These toggles determine how all prices in NetProphet will be displayed.
- Enable Network Access
- To prevent NetProphet from dialing your modem and attempting to
connect to the Internet, deselect this toggle.
- Show only Quote Minder on Startup
- Select this toggle to suppress the main window display when NetProphet
starts. This is useful when NetProphet is put in your Startup folder, so
each time you turn on your computer NetProphet starts and displays the
Quote Minder just as you left it. To get the main window back, just click
on the time or Price fields at the top of the Quote Minder.
- Quote interval, minutes
- Select how frequently price quotes are obtained from the Internet quote
servers. Updates can be made every 1, 2, 5, 15, or 30 minutes.
- Current Price
- If enabled, displays current price of stock in the quote minder window.
- Today's Change
- If enabled, displays the change in price of the stock since it opened today
in the quote minder window.
- Today's Range
- If enabled, displays the range of the stock since today's open in the quote
minder window.
- Today's Open
- If enabled, displays today's opening price of the stock in the quote minder
window.
- Volume
- If enabled, displays the current volume for the stock in the quote minder
window.
- P/E Ratio
- If enabled, displays the current price to earnings ratio of the stock in the
quote minder window.
- Bid/Ask Prices
- If enabled, displays the Bid and Ask information, for NASDAQ Stocks
only, in the quote minder window.
- Time
- If enabled, displays the time that the stock was last updated in the quote
minder window.
- Indices to monitor
- Select all or some of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard and
Poors 500, and the NASDAQ Composite Average to be displayed in the
quote minder window.
The pulldown menus consist of File, Symbol, View and Help.
The File menu contains Update NetProphet, which updates NetProphet with a
new version taken from Neural Applications Corporation's Servers, Clear
cache which frees leftover stock history files from your local cache directory,
Setup which brings up a special configuration form, and Exit, which exits the
program.
Note: NetProphet is designed to automatically recognize that an updated version
of the program is available. Do not manually activate Update NetProphet
unless so directed by Technical Support.
The Setup form is used to modify information entered when NetProphet was
first installed, such as user name, mail name and browser. It can also be used to
give Internet proxy information. If your computer is connected to the Internet
through your modem, leave these fields blank. If your computer is connected to
a corporate network which is connected to the Internet through an HTTP proxy
server, then enter that server name and its HTTP port number in these fields. If
an incorrect entry is made into these fields, the status bar will display the
message "Proxy server XXX:80 unavailable" periodically, and no stock
information will be available.
The Symbol menu contains Update Now, which will begin an immediate update
of all price quotes, and Look up, which allows you to search for a ticker symbol
by entering a company's name. It also contains News, which will give the news
page for the last stock selected, and Export, which will export the portfolio's
stocks and current prices along with the date in a selected format to a file.
The View menu contains Report, Portfolio, Charts, News, and Preferences
which switch the card stack to the appropriate card, Quote Minder, which will
recall the Quote Minder Window if it was previously closed or hidden, and
UnZoom, which will return the Charts card to its widest view.
The Help menu contains New features, which displays a text window
containing the current installation Readme.txt file, Documentation, which
launches your browser to read this help file, Send Feedback, which allows you
to send us ideas on how to improve NetProphet, Tech Support, which you can
use to ask for help with technical problems, and About, which displays
information about NetProphet.
Note: NetProphet Technical Support by Telephone is not available in the Beta
or Free releases of NetProphet. Neural Applications Corporation strives to
answer technical support requests submitted via NetProphet by email within one
day.
The status bar is located just beneath the menu bar, near the top of the main
window. Various short, informational messages are displayed in this area.
The right hand portion of the main window contains the "bulls" and
"bears" of the stock market, as determined each day by NetProphet. The "bulls"
are projected to most likely outperform the market, and are displayed from top
to bottom beneath the bull icon. The "bears" are projected to most likely
underperform the market, and are displayed from top to bottom beneath the
bear icon. Each of the ticker symbols is a button, and clicking on one will cause
the charts card to move to the top of the card stack, and display the selected
stock.
Each evening Neural's supercomputers process all NYSE, AMEX, and
NASDAQ stocks for a variety of proprietary indicators. Stocks with active
trading histories (excluding penny stocks) are rated by neural networks onto a
common stock scale. This scale denotes 0 as average with each 100 points in
either direction representing a statistical measurement of one standard deviation.
Approximately 68% of all ratings will fall between +100 and -100. The Stocks
Predicted to Achieve the Best/Worst Price Performance are those stocks
achieving the largest ratings over the entire market.
The logo animates while network transfers are taking place, and is quiescent
otherwise.
The advertisement displayed at the bottom of the Main Window is the reason
you may use NetProphet for free. You are encouraged to click on any image
displayed there that catches your interest. Your Web Browser will be launched
to display that company web page.
