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                              Program DJ Display
                           Version 90-1, April 1990

         Program DJ Display (DJD.EXE) allows you to use your own on-
         disk HOURLY stock market averages and volume for market study
         and analysis.  The technical market analyst bases his
         algorithms in the fact that economic and business news is
         reflected in market prices; the correct interpretation of the
         important market price changes can be deduced by studying
         past market behavior.  This program, with appropriate market
         data, facilitates such market studies.  About eight years of
         detailed (hourly) Dow Jones Industrial Average and New York
         Stock Exchange volume data are available for use with this
         program.  You avoid costly on-line charges by doing these
         studies with on-disk data instead of using on-line services.
         The graphical and numerical displays of DJ Display can be
         printed using your print-screen utility to produce printed
         copy for drawing trendlines and performing other graphical
         analysis.

         Please send copies of program DJ Display, with accompanying
         files, to any acquaintance that you think might find it
         useful.  Please send them the entire package of files listed
         below.

         To use the graphical displays in DJ Display, an EGA or CGA
         graphics adaptor is required.  The program can be run and the
         numerical display can be used in any PC comptible computer.

         FILES INCLUDED IN INITIAL PACKAGE (APRIL 1990):

         1.  DJD.EXE      The program to display .DJA files
         2.  DJ89N.DJA    The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
                          hourly values for the year 1989.
         3.  VOL89N.DJA   New York Stock Exchange hourly volume for
                          the year 1989.
         4.  DJ90N.DJA    DJIA for part of year 1990.
         5.  VOL90N.DJA   Hourly volume for part of 1990.
         6.  A200-89.USR  Userfile with 200-day moving average of DJIA.
                          (Daily data aligned with 1989 DJIA data.)
         7.  README.      The file you are reading.
         8.  FORM.        Form for registration and ordering data files.

         FUTURE OF DJ DISPLAY

         DJ Display has the capability of overlaying user-supplied
         data (userfiles) on its basic display of the DJIA.  These may
         be averages, "bands" or individual stock prices (scaled to to
         fit the scale of the DJIA).  The demo package contains the
         file A200-89.USR to illustrate use of that capability.
         However, userfiles are simple ASCII files that can be
         prepared with EDLIN (included with your DOS system) or other
         word processors.  Their preparation and use will be described
         below.  Hence, it is expected that the user will want to
         prepare and use his own data with the DJIA data supplied by
         the author of DJ Display.

         Your suggestions for additions and improvements to DJ Display
         are welcome.  Please report any problems using DJ Display.
         Include the kind of computer, graphics adaptor and monitor
         you're using.

         ORDERING ADDITIONAL DATA:

         Prices may change from time to time.  The prices shown apply
         as follows:

              A registration fee of $25.00 is requested for use of DJ
              Display beyond initial demonstration.  Future updated
              versions of DJ Display (if any) will be sent to those
              who have paid the registration fee.  For major revisions
              of DJ Display, an additional fee may be requested.

              NO DATA FILES WILL BE SOLD to any person who has not
              paid the registration fee.

              The prices stated below include shipping costs.

              The prices are cash prices, please send a check; credit
              cards are not accepted.

              Colorado residents, please include sales tax of 3%.

              Prices include both DJIA hourly data and NYSE hourly
              volume.

         Ordering Current-Year Data
         Up-to-date hourly DJIA and NYSE volume files for January
         through the current data-entry date of the current year (1990
         as of this writing) are $10.00 (BE SURE TO INCLUDE
         REGISTRATION FEE WITH YOUR FIRST ORDER AND REGISTRATION
         NUMBER WITH FOLLOWING ORDERS).  Data is normally entered on
         Monday to include data for the previous week.  (All data is
         entered in weekly blocks.)  Orders for current data received
         Tuesday through Monday will normally be shipped the following
         Tuesday with data included through Friday of the previous
         week.  (If you want immediate shipment to include the latest
         data entered, please state that on your order.)  TIMES OF
         SHIPMENT AND/OR DELIVERY ARE NOT GUARANTEED.  An effort will
         be made to conform to the timeliness described above.

         If you have not placed an order during the year for current-
         year data, data for a complete year becomes historical data
         and is priced as such ($20).  If you have placed at least one
         data order for current-year data during the year, the data
         files for the complete year will be sent at the partial-year
         rate of $10.00.  (Disks with complete-year data will be so
         marked.  Since files contain data in weekly blocks, the exact
         cut-off week for a "complete year" may vary.)

         Ordering Historical Data
         (BE SURE REGISTRATION FEE IS INCLUDED WITH FIRST ORDER.)
         Data files are available from May, 1982.

         Data files for May, 1982 through December, 1982 are $15.00.

         Complete-year data files, January through Decamber are $20.00
         for each year (1983 through 1989 as of this writing).

         Send all orders to:

                Kenneth D. Granzow
                1079 Haverhill Pl
                Colorado Springs, CO 80919-7902

         Care has been taken in compiling the data, it is believed to
         be very nearly 100% accurate.  However, its accuracy is not
         guaranteed.  The user must assume all risks associated with
         its use.

         HOW TO RUN PROGRAM DJ DISPLAY.

         The data files to be used with DJ Display, should be in the
         default file.  If they are not, DJ Display will say that it
         has found no data and it will request the user to enter a
         path to the data (or enter X to eXit).  The path entry should
         be of the form

                    C:\DATAPATH\SUBDIR\

         where DATAPATH and SUBDIR are your directory and subdirectory
         names.  The subdirectory SUBDIR is the subdirectory that
         contains the data files.  For a given year, the program must
         find both a DJ file and a VOL file to display data for that
         year.  (For example, for 1990 it must find the two files
         DJ90N.DJA and VOL90N.DJA.  The N designates post Oct. 85
         format.  The NYSE changed its hours then.)

         DJ Display knows the names of the data files, it will not
         find them if they are renamed (don't rename them).  To find
         the files, it appends the filenames to the path you enter (it
         initially assumes they are in the default file.)

         To invoke DJ Display simply type DJD <ENTER>.

         Once DJD finds the data files, it lists the years for the
         data files found.  It asks you to enter a number (from a list
         on the screen) for the year in which you want to start the
         display.

         DJD then explains the three data display modes available;
         they are:

         1.  Numerical list of hourly DJIA and NYSE volume.
         2.  52-week plot of DJIA and volume.
         3.  60-day plot of DJIA and volume.

         1.  The Numerical List.
         For each day, the list always includes one more hourly DJIA
         than NYSE volume.  The reason is that the DJIA list includes
         the "opening" value and then each hourly value.  The first
         volume is the number of shares traded from the opening to the
         end of the first hour (or half hour).

         Note that the NYSE opened at 10 AM (eastern time) before
         October, 1985;  since then, it has opened at 9:30 AM.  The
         first half hour of the new schedule is treated as an hour by
         DJD.  The opening DJIA is the 9:30 AM value; the next value
         given is the 10 AM value.  The first volume is the the number
         of shares traded between 9:30 and 10 AM.  The NYSE closes at
         4:00 PM; hence, current data has 8 values of the DJIA and 7
         values of volume each trading day.

         2.  The 52-week Plot.
         In each of the 52 columns displayed, several ticks will be
         found.  The filled (cyan) box is the closing DJIA for the
         week.  The horizontal (cyan) line the width of the box is the
         closing price of the first business day of the week.  The
         closing prices for the following days are depicted by white
         horizontal lines.  A short line for Tuesday and lines of
         increasing length for Wednesday and Thursday.  Hence, all the
         daily closing prices for the week are shown in a given column
         and each day is identified by line-length and/or color.  Note
         that the color (cyan) indicated above is shown if an EGA or
         VGA color adaptor is used.  If a CGA adaptor is used the
         display is in medium-resolution black and white.

         3.  The 60-day Plot.
         In each of the 60 columns displayed, several ticks are shown
         similar to those in the 52-week plot.  The filled (cyan) box
         is the closing price of the day.  The (cyan) line that is the
         width of the box is the opening price that day.  The
         succeeding hourly values are shown as horizontal white lines;
         a short, white line is the end of first hour and horizontal
         white lines of increasing length are the following hours.  On
         days of small market volatility, the hourly lines are
         sometimes inside the box and difficult to see.  Note that the
         color (cyan) indicated above is shown if an EGA or VGA color
         adaptor is used.  If a CGA adaptor is used the display is in
         medium-resolution black and white.

         The display mode can be changed at any time by hitting the
         user key F1 and making the selection by hitting W (52-Week
         plot), D (60-Day plot) or L (numerical List).  Note that the
         week shown in the numerical-list display will be the last
         week in the 52-week or 60-day displays when a format mode
         change is made.  The numerical-list display will be displayed
         quicker than either of the others; hence, if a location in
         the data is sought, the numerical list should be selected,
         the particular week found (using the Arrow and Page keys, see
         below), and then one of the graph modes selected.

         To change the display to a particular time in the data, the
         Arrow keys and Page-Up and Page-Down keys are used as
         follows:

         Right Arrow -- Forward one week
         Left Arrow -- Backward one week
         Down Arrow -- Forward four weeks
         Up Arrow -- Backward four weeks
         Page Down -- Forward 52 weeks
         Page Up -- Backward 52 weeks

         These are summarized on each screen of data.

         USE OF USER FILES

         To load a userfile, first choose a graphical display mode
         (52-week or 60-day), then hit (user key) F2.  If no userfile
         has yet been loaded, you will immediately be asked for the
         year of alignment of the data.  For the enclosed userfile,
         enter 89 <ENTER>.  The userfile data must start at the
         beginning of the year of an available data file (DJXXX.DJA
         and VOLXXX.DJA).  The enclosed userfile aligns with 1989
         data.  DJ Display will reply with the dates for the data year
         you entered.  These are the dates of the Monday FOLLOWING the
         first and last week of data in that data file.  (If you wish
         to create a userfile with a data set that does not align with
         a DJ Display data year, just pad the beginning of the
         userfile with zeros back to the beginning of the year -- the
         zeros won't be plotted by DJ Display.)  A userfile contains
         one number per line and can contain any number of lines (DJ
         Display reads the file until the last number that will fit on
         the display is reached or until an end-of-file is read).  See
         the enclosed file A200-89.USR for the correct format.

         You are immediately asked if the file will be a Weekly (W) or
         Daily (D) userfile.  For the enclosed userfile, hit D.  For
         preparing userfiles, the first entry of a daily file is for
         Monday (one week before the Monday displayed by the program).
         For weekly userfiles, the entries are assumed to be on
         Fridays (because that's normally the closing day of the stock
         exchange).  The first entry is the Friday before the first
         date shown for the alignment year.

         You will then be asked to enter the filename of the userfile.
         The program assumes that it is in the same directory
         (subdirectory) as the data files.  If it is not, enter the
         full path and filename.

         The program will immediately display the data (if the current
         display has a scale in which the data falls).  It will
         continue to display whenever it fits on the graph until you
         change to another userfile or close the userfile.

         Once a userfile is loaded, pushing F2 will bring the question
         of closing it (C) or replacing it (R).  Pushing C will drop
         the userfile and pushing R will start the prompts for a new
         userfile as described above.


         Best wishes for profitable market analysis.

                                       Ken Granzow