SSChart™ - Introduction

Introduction to SSChart

SSChart is a high quality candlestick stock charting program that displays market data with a wide variety of technical studies. It's primary distinction from other charting software is that it automatically downloads the data via the Internet from a variety of websites which provide free market data.

The Introduction provides an overview of SSChart and the other sections in this document. The Installation section gives a high level introduction to installing the software. A separate document provides the installation details. The section on Registration explains our licensing policy and the Quick Start section shows you how to create your first charts and studies. Please read the introduction to learn how to use SSChart quickly.

The remainder of the SSChart help covers each menu, command, and dialog box in detail. The first chapter, SSChart Features, covers information that pertains to all SSChart windows, such as the main window. Some of these features are standard Windows commands. The last chapter of the SSChart help is Troubleshooting and FAQ. Consult this chapter if you are having problems with SSChart – if your problem is a common one, you will find the solution there.

Documentation Conventions

A series of menu selections is shown like this:

{ Help | About SSChart }

The entire selection sequence is enclosed curly braces { }. Each successive menu selection is separated by a vertical bar "|". The example indicates that you click on the "Help" menu, and then the "About SSChart" submenu.

Dialog buttons are enclosed in square brackets, like this:

[OK] [Cancel]

Special Keystrokes are shown in <angle brackets> like:

<right click> right mouse button click

<enter> Enter key on keyboard

<ctrl | R> R key pressed while holding down control key.


SSChart Concepts

The basic unit of the SSChart main window is the chart window. Each chart window contains the price, volume, and studies for a stock symbol. You may create and save as many chart windows as you wish.

The current chart layout will be saved when you exit the program. The next time you start SSChart all chart windows will be recreated as viewed before. You can save any customed chart as a named favorite, and reload this again by its name.

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