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*                          StockMan                              *
*                     Written by Mark Qian                       *
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StockMan is a stock market analysis tool. It allow you to summary,
watch, and analyze stock changes.

The Structure of StockMan:
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  1). Input
      StockMan uses a data file(the default is sm_data.txt) as its 
      input information.  When StockMan is run, it updates its 
      database file(the default is sm_db.sdb) using the infor from 
      sm_data.txt. 

      The best way to build the data file, sm_data.txt, is using 
      Compuserve's Quotes function.(Click at icon "Quotes" in WINCIM's
      toolbar.)
  
      To build sm_data.txt using WINCIM, you need to first add tickers 
      to the list box in Stock Quotes dialog in WINCIM. This package
      include a file named quotes.dat for testing. To perform this test,
      you can first backup your c:\cserve\support\quotes.dat and then replace
      it with the one comes with StockMan package.

      Next, you need to click at "Get All" button in Stock Quotes dialog in
      WINCIM and save the result to the file named sm_data.txt in the 
      directory where sm.exe resides. 

      Finally, you can run StockMan. 

  2). Output
      StockMan provides a variety of summary and analysis results:

      On its main screen, it display the graphs of all the quotes in
      the order you set in a user-defined period.  This will give you
      a brief summary about the today's stock information.

      On its Table screen, a overall summary table shows the today's
      quotes information in a user-defined sorted order. For example,
      you may set the order to Change(%)- Descending to view which quote
      has been up or down most.

      You can view the graph of any listed quote by double clicking at
      the row of the quote.

  3). Alarm
      The alram function allows you to watch quotes: the "Stock Table" 
      button and "Alarm" button will flash when the price of a watched
      quote falls into the pre-set range.


FAQ:
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  1). Question:
      I have more than 300 tickers and WINCIM could not handle
      that many tickers.  How can I deal with this problem?

      Answer:
      You can divide your tickers into groups so that each group
      contains about 50 or less tickers.
      
      Here is the STEP be STEP instructions to divide it:
         a). Open The Quotes dialog in WINCIM
         b). Add about 50 tickers to the ticker list in the dialog
         c). Close the Quotes dialog
         d). Create a sub directory, say quote1, 
             under c:\cserve\support(assuming that your WINCIM was 
             installed in c:\cserve).
         e). move file c:\cserve\support\quotes.dat to 
             c:\cserve\support\quote1
         f). Go to step a) until you divide all tickers into small
             groups.  Note: each time when you at step d), be sure you
             use a different name for the new sub directory.  For example
             when you create the second group, you should create something like 
             c:\cserve\support\quote2 if you have use c:\cserve\support\quote1
             for the first group.
           
       Here is the instruction about how to use these groups:
         a). Open WINCIM
         b). Copy c:\cserve\support\quote1\quotes.dat to c:\cserve\support
         c). Open Quotes dialog, click at Get All button, and save the
             result as sm_data.txt. Note: if this is the first quotes.dat(the
             quotes.dat from sub directory quote1), click at Overwrite 
             button when saving. Otherwise, click at Append button.
         d). Close Quotes dialog
         e). Go to Step b) to copy the second quotes.dat file, 
             c:\cserve\support\quote2\quotes.dat to c:\cserve\support
             (The second quotes.dat overwrite the previous one from
              c:\cserve\support\quote1\quotes.dat). Be sure you select
              Append button from now on to append the second and all the
              rest to sm_data.txt.

        To ensure that you never lose you quotes.dat files, you may want
        to create a backup directory under c:\cserve\support, say c:\cserve\support\bk
        and copy c:\cserve\support\quote1, c:\cserve\support\quote2, ..., c:\cserve\support\quoten
        to c:\cserve\support\bk so that you can recover any of them in the case your mistake
        destory any quotes.dat file.


 
         
                     
         






Important:  In order to build what you want into next verion, 
*********   please EMail me your comments about this program: 
            What is NOT good enough?
            What do you wish to be in next version?



You can contact the author in following ways:   


    a). EMail the author at markqian@aol.com through Internet;
    b). EMail the author at Mark Qian through America Online;
    c). EMail the author at CIS-mail 76463,1251 through CompuServe;
    d). Mail the author at Mark Qian  P.O. Box 390235, Mountain View, CA. 94039-0235  USA.   

Author: Mark Qian.

   






      
  