NetProphet Help

NetProphet is comprised of two windows; the main window and the quote minder window.

The Main 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.

The Quote Minder Window

The quote minder window monitors the stocks in your portfolio, displaying their current information and warns you if a stock's price strays out of its preassigned range.

If a stock's price exceeds the upper limit, that stock is displayed in blue and yellow. If a stock's price is below the lower limit, that stock is displayed in red and yellow.

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 Card Stack

The majority of the main window is taken up by the card stack. The stack consists of four 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 fours cards are the Prophet 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, and the Preferences card, which allows you to alter various program settings.

The Prophet Card

This card summarizes yesterday's market performance, and reports price performance for recently highlighted stocks. The Prophet Card is updated daily (on trading days).

Registered version only: The gold Purchase A Prediction button allows you to select a stock and the length of time you would like to receive predictions made on that stock (90 days, for example). Each day during that time, NetProphet will provide you with that stock's 30 day forecast.

The Charts Card

Here you can chart the progress of any available stock, mutual fund, or index, using a number of graphing methods. Information for the current stock is displayed in the lower left corner of this card.

In the Registered version, two grey sub-cards labeled display and data 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.
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.

The Portfolio Card

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 low and 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/Edit Symbol button. Enter the desired ticker symbol and press enter. Enter a low price alarm and press enter. 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/Edit Symbol button and enter the new alarm limits.

The Preferences Card

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 dialling your modem and attempting to connect to the Internet, deselect this toggle.
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.
Quote Update Interval
Select how frequently price quotes are obtained from the Internet quote servers. Updates can be made every 1, 2, 5, 15, or 30 minutes.
Common Indices
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

The pulldown menus consist of File, Symbol, and Help.

The File menu contains Update NetProphet, which updates NetProphet with from Neural Applications Corporation's Servers, 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 Symbol menu contains Update Now, which will begin an immediate update of all price quotes, Look up, which allows you to search for a ticker symbol by entering a company's name, and Show Minder, which will recall the Quote Minder Window if it was previously closed or hidden.

The Help menu contains Documentation, which launches your browser to read this help file, About, which displays information about NetProphet, 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

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. In addition, the status bar acts as a progress indicator, graphically displaying any network transfers which occur.

Stocks Predicted to Achieve the Best/Worst Price Performance

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.

The Logo

The logo animates while network transfers are taking place, and is quiescent otherwise.
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