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- Rising Star Technology
- P.O. Box 20038
- Dayton, Ohio 45420-0038
- (800)252-2787 Orders
- (513)254-6423 Orders
- (513)254-7970 Fax
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- Congratulations!
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- You have just downloaded the demonstration version of InvesTrax!
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- InvesTrax is the Easiest Way to Track the Performance of Your
- Mutual Fund Investments!
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- FEATURES!
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- * Easy Investment Statement Data Entry! Account for All Your Buys,
- Sells, Dividends, Short & Long Term Capital Gains, and Special
- NAV Markers!
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- * Easy to Understand Color-Coded Investment Graphs!
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- * Easy to Discover Your Actual Interest Rate with the Interest
- Wizard(tm)!
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- * Easy to Estimate Future Account Balances with the Future
- Value Estimator(tm)!
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- * Windows 95 Ready!
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- We know you will enjoy using this package, it's simply the easiest
- mutual fund tracking software available today!
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- INSTALLATION
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- To install InvesTrax, simply double-click on the "Setup.Exe" program,
- and follow the prompts!
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- All files will be copied to folder you select (default C:\INVTRAX)
- and NO files will be copied into your Windows or Windows/System
- directories.
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- WELCOME TO INVESTRAX - Copyright ⌐ 1995-96 Rising Star Technology
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- Thank you for giving us the opportunity to demonstrate the
- capabilities of InvesTrax. This package includes the latest version
- of our demonstration disk.
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- There are three ways to view your mutual fund transactions:
- As list of all mutual fund transactions, a graphical view where
- the share price or fund value is plotted verses transaction date,
- and calculated fund statistics.
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- The different views can be selected using the mouse to click on
- the appropriate "tab" located at the bottom of the main window.
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- Transaction List:
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- This view displays all the mutual fund transactions you have
- entered. To Add a new transaction, select Add Transaction...
- listed under the Edit menu. Editing a transaction is as easy as
- double clicking on the transaction to be edited from the
- transaction list.
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- Transactions come in several flavors:
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- Buy: Select this type if you invested money into a mutual fund
- (thereby purchasing shares). Fill in the dollar amount invested
- and the current share price. InvesTrax will automatically
- calculate the number of share purchased. All of this information
- can be found on the statements you receive from the mutual fund
- company.
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- Sell: Select this type if you withdraw some money from your
- mutual fund (thereby sell shares). Fill in the dollar amount
- withdrawn, and the share price at the date of withdraw. Both of
- these will be listed on the statements you receive from the
- mutual fund company.
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- Distributions (Dividends, Short Term Capital Gains, Long Term
- Capital Gains): There are three categories in which distributions
- can be classified. All represent money that a fund "pays" the
- fund holder (you) for the privilege of using your invested
- money to make more money. You can think of it as being similar
- to interest that a bank would pay on your passbook savings,
- although this is not technically correct. Again your statement
- of account will list these as well.
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- Reinvested Distributions: When a fund "pays" a dividend, or short
- term capital gain or any distribution, you can direct the money
- to be sent directly to you, or reinvested back into the fund. If
- you do not receive checks regularly then your distributions are
- probably being reinvested back into the fund. In any case when
- entering a distribution, check the reinvested box appropriately.
- The default is that all distributions are reinvested.
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- Graphing:
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- Graphing all your transactions is as easy as clicking on the
- tab marked Graph. You can select between a graph of share price
- verses transaction date, or fund value verses transaction date
- from the Graph menu.
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- The points on the line indicate that a transaction took place
- at that time. A blue indicates a Buy occurred, red indicates a
- Sell, and Green indicates that the fun paid a distribution that
- was reinvested. Double clicking on any point brings up more
- detail about that transaction.
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- Statistics:
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- Every time you switch to the statistics view, a number of
- calculations take place. First, all the buys, sells and
- distributions are totaled and tabulated for a good overview of
- the kind of activity that has taken place in the fund. Secondly,
- if you are dollar cost averaging mutual fund investments,
- then the dollar cost average figures of average share price
- and average purchase price will be of interest.
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- DEMONSTRATION VERSION LIMITATIONS
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- The demonstration version of InvesTrax is fully functional with
- the exception of the save option. You can enter, load, modify, graph,
- calculate effective interest rates, etc... but you cannot save the
- fund files you have created.
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- InvesTrax is sold for at a very reasonable price. Full ordering
- information will be presented.
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- Thanks for the Demonstration Request and Enjoy!
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- Douglas Hodson
- Rising Star Technology
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