The following screen appears each time you start the Integrated Investor software:
Click on the components of the startup screen to go to help topics specific to that item, or click on the links below.
The Start Page is displayed in the work area of a standard Integrated Investor Work Page Screen. It has the standard Title Bar, Menu Bar, Tool Bar and Page Monitor.
On the left margin of the Start Page are located the Pre-computed Scan selection areas. It consists of three parts:
Scan Results are retrieved on a national market-basis. Select a country from the drop-down list and scan results from all its markets will be retrieved.
Note - The exact Markets to be retrieved for each country can be specified in the Advanced Data Provider settings. By default all markets for each country are specified.
The Date of the results can also be set. By default the current date's results are retrieved. All previous results are available from the server. To retrieve the results for a previous date, un-check the Use Current Data checkbox and enter or select a date
To display only results of stocks that have options associated with them, select the Optionable Only filter.
Select a scan type to view its results in the display pane below.
The Elliott Wave group of four Wave type scans (Wave 4 Buy/Sell and Wave 5 Buy/Sell) is always available in Integrated Investor.
When the Safety in the Market (SITM) module is installed, the ABC group of pre-computed scan types will appear.
The four scans types based on ABC Pressure Point principles.
These two groups of scan types also appear on the Trade Setup tab of the Pre-computed Scans work page.
For more information of the scans and their criteria, go to the Trade Setups scan types help topic.
Once the scope of the results is set and a scan type is selected, results for that date and type will appear in the list at the lower left corner of the Start Page.
Select a result and many of the other display panels on the Start Page will be populated with data for that symbol.
Display panels which are linked to the selected result include the Price Chart display at the center top, the Technical and Fundamental dashboard instruments at the top right, the Broker Recommendation (center-right) and the News Headlines at the lower right of the work page.
These items are all described in the following section of this help topic.
Click on a Pre-computed Scan Result to display its price chart.
The Daily Line chart will display 12 months of data using the Close data field.
Roll the cursor over the chart and it becomes a pointing finger that will display the price for the day selected.
Open Detailed Price Chart
While the cursor is over the chart, single left mouse click the chart to open a new Integrated Investor Price Chart window.
The chart for the symbol will be displayed, together with the Elliott Wave or ABC Points that triggered the original pre-computed scan result.
The chart will use default chart type: Line, Bar, Candle Stick, Time Swing, etc.
The chart has full charting functionality and can be customized to suit each user or analysis. Individual price charts can then be saved as *.hcp chart files.
For more information, go to the Chart Page Overview topic.
Users can also enter a symbol that does not appear in a Pre-computed Scan Results List and have its chart display on the Integrated Investor Start Page.
Enter the symbol in the symbol details text box:
Press return and the chart will be plotted with the symbol's data. All the other technical and fundamental displays on the Start Page, see the next sections, will also be populated with data for that symbol.
Single left mouse click to open the symbol in a new Price Chart window.
Immediately beneath the Scan Result Price Chart Display are four Key Price Data snapshot figures:
Each time the chart is loaded, this data will be refreshed.
The three speedometer type dials represent statistical indications of the average values for a number of different technical data sets.
The software use complex mathematical computations to transform the various ratio values into a percentage value representing the mean of the set of indicator values.
Each dial displays from 1 to 100. The needle indicates the level and the exact value is displayed immediately below the dial:
The Oscillator indicator uses a number of technical indicators primarily from the Oscillator group of indicators, e.g. Commodity Channel Index, Percentile Rate of Change, Relative Strength Index (RSI), Williams %R, etc., to determine whether the current price is, from a technical perspective, Over-Bought or Over-Sold.
An Over-Bought position (reading above 50) tends to indicate that a downward reversal can be expected.
An Over-Sold position (reading below 50) tends to indicate that an upward reversal can be expected.
The Trend indicator utilizes a range of Momentum and Oscillator type technical indicators, e.g. Momentum, Oscillator, Chaikin Money Flow, Directional Movement Index (DMI), etc., to determine whether the current trend is, from a technical perspective, Bullish or Bearish.
A Bullish reading ( above 50) tends to indicate that an upward trend will continue.
A Bearish reading (below 50) tends to indicate that a downward trend will continue.
The strength of either trend is determined by the needle's distance from Neutral: N on the dial or 50.00%.
The Volume indicator is a percentile indication of the current day's volume compared to the range of volume over the preceding 12 months.
A Low reading indicates that the volume for the current day is relatively less than the average daily volume for the security over the past year.
A High reading indicates a higher than average volume for the day.
The three speedometer type dials represent the average results for the three Fundamental Experts Analysis groupings of the ValueGain feature set.
This set of gauges also appears on the ValueGain Start Page.
The composition and calculation for each of the Analysts Groupings are discussed and explained in the Experts Analysis Page help topic.
The Brokers Recommendation is the investment bank broker consensus opinion for the stock supplied by a third party financial data provider:
The reported range is displayed as Sell, Underperform, Hold, Buy, Strong Buy on the graphic display, the consensus opinion is indicated by the blue arrow.
Note - It is not directly related to the results generated by Integrated Investor's pre-computed scans, but rather provides an independent benchmark to which those results can be broadly compared.
News relevant to the symbol currently displayed in the Scan Result Price Chart will be displayed in the News Headlines panel.
Selecting a new Scan Result will also retrieve News Headlines for it.
Likewise, if a user enters a symbol that is not a Scan Result into the symbol text box, that symbol's Price Chart and related News Headlines will be retrieved and displayed.
If there are no current news relating to the symbol, the following text will appear in the panel.
<No data to display>
When related News articles are found, they will be displayed in the News Headlines panel:
Click on a headline and it will open in the News work page.
Four principle Exchange Indexes from different regional markets are displayed in the tabbed World Market Charts area.
Select a tab to display its Index Chart:
Data for the previous 12 months is plotted as a Daily Line chart. The Close data field is used.
Move the cursor over the chart, it will change to a pointing finger and the price data for each day will be displayed.
As with the price chart, above, left mouse click on the to open the Index in a fully customizable Price Chart work page.
All Price Chart functionality is available, and the changes can be saved as *.hcp chart files.
For more information, go to the Chart Page Overview topic.
Immediately beneath the World Market Chart Display are four Key Price Data snapshot figures:
Each time the chart is loaded, this data will be refreshed
The following table contains descriptions of each of the four quotes for each of the four exchanges:
Exchange Quote Details
| DOW Dow Jones Industrial Average Index New York INDU on CBOT | Oil Light Crude Futures CL-SpotV on NYMEX
| Gol Gold Futures GC-SpotV on NYMEX
| Euro Euro-$US Foreign Exchange Rate FXEUUS
| 10yr Bond US Treasury Note Future TY-SpotV on CBT
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| NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers, USA COMPQ on NASDAQ | COMPQ NASDAQ Composite Index COMPQ on NASDAQ | MSH Morgan Stanley High Technology 35 Index MSH on AMX | NDX NASDAQ 100 Index NDX on CBOE | SOXX PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index Philadelphia USA SOX on PHLX |
| ASX All Ordinaries Index Australian Stock Exchange, Sydney XAO on ASX | SPI (Night) Standard and Poors ASX 200 Futures SAPI-SpotV on SFE | BHP ADR BHP Billiton American Depositary Receipts BHP on NYSE | RIO ADR Rio Tinto American Depositary Receipts RIO on NYSE | DOW Dow Jones Industrial Average Index INDU on CBOT |
| FTSE Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, London FTSE on LSE
| DOW Dow Jones Industrial Average Index INDU on CBOT
| 10yr Gilt 10 Year UK Government Bond Future LGL-SpotV on LIFFE
| DAX 30 Deutscher Aktien IndeX 30 Frankfurt Stock Exchange DAX-SpotV on EUREX | CAC 40 Cotation Assistee en Continu (Continuous Assisted Quotation) Euronext Paris GMCT-ApotV on MATIF |
You can return to the Start page at any time by clicking the Start Page Icon at the top of the Page Monitor list (assuming you have not closed it):
You can always display it by clicking the Start Page command in the View Menu.