				Trade Simulator Tutorial

	We at TradeWare hope this file will clear up some questions you, as
a user of Trade Simulator, might have with regard to the program's functionality.

With this document you will:
	1. Learn some of Trade Simulator's menus
	2. Create a chart
	3. Draw some technical indicators on the chart
	4. Save Trade Simulator's Desktop
	5. Open a Trading account
	5. Place an order
	6. Once you have traded to the end of a history file,
	   learn how to reset the trading date.
	7. Learn how to access Trade Simulator's On-Line Help
	   for further instruction

	First, you will start Trade Simulator by double-clicking your mouse
on Trade Simulator's icon. You will get an opening screen telling you a little 
bit about Trade Simulator.  Next, you will see Trade Simulator's desktop.
This area is your work area where you will draw your price charts and 
place your trades.  

	You will get a brief introduction to the various areas in your 
desktop.  For now, let's bypass the menus and go to Trade Simulator's Button 
Bar.  There is a series of buttons at the top of the desktop that allow
quick access to several frequently used menu commands. Below is a list of 
the buttons and their functions. Note: refer to the On-Line Help for a more
complete discussion.

	1. The first button is the "Restore Desktop" button - Clicking this
	   button allows you to restore a previously saved desktop. See 
	   Item two.

	2. The second button is the "Save Desktop" button - Just as on your
	   desktop at the office.  Trade Simulator's desktop can be as 
	   cluttered or as clean as you want.  You might have many charts 
	   that are set up just the way you like them "with just the right 
	   indicators" and you may want to display them all at once. By 
	   clicking this button you can save all the charts that are currently 
	   displayed and you can recall them by clicking the RST button.  

	3. The third button is the "Open Trading Chart" button - Once a commodity
	   and a chart style is selected, you can click this button
	   to display a chart on the screen.

	5. The forth button is the "Advance All Charts to the Next Day"
	   button - The last price bar on the right side of the chart is the
	   last day traded. If the date for this price bar is Nov. 1, 1994,
	   then clicking this button would move the chart to the next day. 
	   Note: This is like real life - once a day has been displayed, you 
	   can't place any orders for that day. You can only place orders for 
	   the next day.

	6. The fifth and sixth buttons are the "Display Price Bars as Open,
	   High, Low and Close Bars" or "Display Price Bars as Candle Sticks" 
	   buttons, respectively.

	7. The seventh button is the "Display Price Bars" or "Don't Display
	   Price Bars" button. This allows you to clutter a chart with a lot of 
	   indicators.

	8. The eighth, ninth and tenth buttons deal with drawing trend lines, 
	   support/resistance lines and deleting these lines, respectively.

	9. The eleventh button will display a candle stick analysis dialog 
	   box to help you analyze various candle stick formations.

       10. The twelfth button allows you to set the time periods for each 
	   technical indicator.  

       11. The thirteenth button displays a dialog box that allows you to 
	   place orders in the market place.

       12. The last three buttons all deal with your order and trading account 
	   information.


	Another notable area in Trade Simulator is along the bottom of the 
desktop.  This is the "message bar" area. When the Chart cursor is active on a 
chart (this can be done by double clicking the left mouse button on a chart)
and the mouse cursor is above the chart, you will see something like the 
following, "85 Bars Date:Monday, 8\12\85 Open:2285 High:2290 Low:2262 
Close:2275 Vol:34780 OI:45196". Also, when the mouse cursor is above a button 
in Trade Simulator's button bar, a hint about that button will appear in the 
"message bar".


Now we will take a quick tour of Trade Simulator

	At this point, you have started Trade Simulator and are staring
at a blank desktop.  Astethic maybe - but not very functional.  

	First, you want to display a chart. To do this, you will need to select 
the menu "File".  Then select "Set Trading Contract...". A dialog box will be 
displayed allowing you to choose a Commodity to trade.  Pressing the down 
arrow or up arrow key will allow you to select the commodity you wish to chart.
Select the OK button when the commodity you want to chart is highlighted.
Next you will need to select the menu "File". Then select the second menu item
which will bring up the chart styles dialog box. For now, just select the OK button
to accept the default chart configuration.  You are now ready to open a trading 
chart- to do so, click button three.  In front of you is your first chart.

	Let's view some of the information that you can get from a bare 
price chart. Place the mouse cursor over the chart and double click the left 
mouse button. You will see a long chart cursor directly over one of the price 
bars and in the message bar the price data for that bar will be displayed. 
Pressing the left arrow key or right arrow key on your key board will move 
this chart cursor to the left or right.  If the chart cursor is moved to the 
far left of the chart it will stop.  But moving the chart cursor to the far 
right will cause the cursor to disappear and all charts displayed will move to 
the next day, just as if the forth button in the button bar was clicked.

	Now you are ready to do some interesting things with your chart.
First, draw a trend line on your chart. To do this, click the eighth button 
once.  Move the mouse cursor to the chart and click the right button. Hold 
the button down.  Now move the mouse, when you release the right mouse button 
the line will become permanent.  Trend lines and Support Lines are used to 
determine if a commodity is trending or not and an in-depth study of these is 
beyond the scope of this manual, but you can refer to Trade Simulator's On- 
Line Help for a little more information.  To this line, click the tenth button 
once.  You will see a dialog box that will ask you if you want to delete the 
last trend line. Select the OK button, and the trend line is gone.

	Next, you will display a technical indicator and allow Trade Simulator 
to analyze the indicator's movement.  First, select the "Chart" menu item, then 
select "Set Technical Indicator's Periods...". This will bring up a dialog box 
allowing you to set each indicator's calculation period. We will accept the 
default values and just select the OK button. Now select the "Chart" menu item 
again' then "Display Indicators", and then "Commodity Channel Index".  We will
suffice it to say that if you bought when the indicator was below -100 and
then turned up you might have had some interesting results.  Refer to On-Line
Help for more information.

	Next you are going to sell at the market, wait two days, and buy it 
back. Not very scientific, but it will show you how to place an order and open a
trading account.  To open an account, select the "Trade" menu item then
"New Account".  To get started, select the defaults of HartFelt Management to
handle your account and a beginning balance of $10,000.00 by pressing the OK 
button.  Now you can place some orders.  Select the "Trade" menu item, then 
"Place Orders..." or click the BUY button.  You will see an order dialog box. 
Place the following order: Using the tab and arrow keys *** Open Order, SELL, 
1, "place name of commodity you have charted here", AT THE MARKET *** and select
the OK button.  If everything worked the way it should, the Active button 
should be activated. If it isn't, then place the order again. If it is,
click the Active button and see if your order is right, then select the OK 
button.  Now we are ready to move the chart to the next day. Place the mouse 
cursor over the chart and double click the left mouse button so the chart 
cursor appears.  Once it appears, move the chart cursor to the right with the 
right arrow key.  When the chart cursor goes past the last price bar, the chart 
will move to the next day, the Active button will dim, and the Filled button 
will become active telling you that you have sold 1 contract at the market and 
are at risk of making or losing money. As per our plan, we will wait two days 
and place another order to buy 1 contract and close out our position at either 
a profit or a loss.  Press the right arrow key once, wait for the chart to be
redrawn, then place the following order, using the tab and arrow keys *** Open
Order, BUY, 1, "place name of commodity you have charted here", AT THE MARKET ***
and select the OK button.  Now press the right arrow key to move the chart to
the next day.  Both the Filled and Active Buttons are now dimmed because you
have first entered a position and then exited that position.  Now select the
Acct. Hist. button to find out if your first trade was successful and why it
was or was not.  


	Now let's look at Trade Simulators On-Line Help.  Let's see what the
On-Line Help has to say about the basics of using Trade Simulator (which is
pretty much what you are doing with this document).  While Trade Simulator 
is running, press the F1 key.  Once Help is running, place the mouse cursor
over item "#1. Trade Simulator Basics:".  At this point, the mouse cursor will
turn into a hand.  Click the left mouse button.  This will take you to
the "Trade Simulator Basics" Help window. Next, select "4.  Getting Started:"
the same way you selected "#1. Trade Simulator Basics:".  You are now in the
"Getting Started" window. As you can see, it also gives some basic information
on starting and using Trade Simulator.  To quit Help, just press Alt-F4 or
select menu item "File", then menu item "Exit".

	To reset the default date and start all over with Trade Simulator,
just find the DAT directory that Trade Simulator's Install program made and 
delete the file tdate.dat.


*** The previous paragraphs give a quick introduction to trading commodities 
and Trade Simulator.  Be sure to consult Trade Simulator's On-Line Help for 
more information or feel free to contact TradeWare:

	by phone:     ( 406 ) 721-6342

	or write to:  TradeWare
		      520 Fairview Ave.
	              Missoula, MT 59801

	
