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- Total Investor
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- Your Complete Market Advisor
- Overview
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- Total Investor is an integrated portfolio management and technical
- analysis tool which uses the Lotus 1-2-3 (Version 2.00 and greater),
- Symphony, and Quattro Pro environments. The program can be used to
- keep track of securities and transactions, chart stocks, and make
- trading decisions based on technical indicators. With just a few
- keystrokes, the information you need is displayed on the screen. With
- Total Investor, there is no need to quit one package and load another.
- In the past, this combination of features required separate and more
- expensive programs.
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- All of these powerful capabilities of Total Investor are accessed
- through a menu driven command structure. You are not required to learn
- a new programming language or understand the intricacies of the Lotus
- spreadsheet environment. Every function needed to monitor a portfolio,
- chart, and analyze securities can be implemented with the simple touch
- of a key. The menu commands are named after the terms of investing and
- not in arcane computer jargon.
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- Both versions of Total Investor can maintain current quotes for
- your portfolio and historical quotes for charting and analysis. A
- manual data entry mode is supported so that price and volume data can
- be entered directly from a newspaper's financial section. With the
- Symphony version, downloading quotes or historical data is done
- automatically through the use of a modem linked with Dow Jones News
- Retrieval. Data Link templates for Total Investor for 1-2-3 are now
- available for Compuserve, Dow Jones News/Retrieval, and the FNN Signal
- quote receiver. These templates allow you to easily keep your
- portfolio and charts updated. All of the historical data is stored in
- Lotus compatible files should you wish to do analysis on your own using
- Symphony or 1-2-3.
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- The windowed environment of Total Investor allows maximum
- flexibility for viewing data. Indicators and charts can be viewed
- either individually or simultaneously. Seeing both at the same time
- allows better correlation of the action of an indicator to price
- trends. A zoom function is supported that displays the last few days
- of trading with finer resolution.
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- Portfolio Management
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- When Total Investor starts up, the portfolio area is displayed.
- The program keeps track of all your security data including:
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- Description
- Date of Purchase
- Purchase Cost
- Current Price
- Gain
- Symbol
- Commission
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- A summary of the portfolio is shown in the Totals Window on the
- same display. Any time a portfolio is updated with new prices or a
- transaction is made the net change is displayed in the Totals window.
- The price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and any change in its
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- value since the last update is given as a comparative measure. Year to
- date commissions are also shown as a means to track brokerage costs.
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- Powerful editing capabilities allow you to enter, modify, split,
- short, or sell any position. Securities that can be held in the
- portfolio include stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and U.S.
- Treasury issues. Total Investor will also track capital gains
- throughout the year. These gains can be sorted into long term or short
- term with a holding period that can be varied.
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- The report features of Total Investor provide useful tools for
- portfolio management. The database function of Lotus is used to sort
- the securities. The portfolio can be sorted by date, amount, number of
- shares or whatever factor the program tracks. The allocation between
- securities and cash can also be displayed graphically. Another
- capability of Total Investor allows you to plot the value of your
- portfolio over the security historical data range stored. This can
- then be compared against the Dow Jones Industrial Average to display
- the relative strength of your combined holdings.
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- Charts and Indicators
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- The technical analysis functions of Total Investor offer a wide
- range of tools to aid the investor in decision making. The five major
- categories of tools include charts, volume indicators, relative
- strength, moving averages, and oscillators. Each indicator can be
- displayed separately or with the stock to aid analysis. Indicator
- graphs can also be stored for later printing using the Printgraph
- function of Lotus. The individual indicators covered by the program
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- Charts- Plot Price, Volume, last year or zoom .
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- Volume- Accumulation, Cashflow,On Balance, Positive,
- Negative, and Ease of Movement
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- Relative Strength- Stock vs DJIA or other issues, Wilder
- RSI
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- Moving Averages- Simple or Exponential
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- Oscillators- Momentum, user selectable with smoothing
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- Statistics- Overview security performance
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- The Total Investor manual explains how these indicators are
- derived and their use. A section of the manual called "Using Total
- Investor" describes a trading method which uses a synergistic
- combination of these indicators. A complete bibliography is given for
- additional reading.
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- Total Investor Data Links
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- HFS Data Links automate the updating process for the portfolios
- and historical quote files of Total Investor. This relieves you of the
- tedium of manual data entry. Data links are available for Compuserve,
- FNN Signal, and Dow Jones News/Retrieval.
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- FNN Signal is a data service that uses a receiver to obtain quotes
- which are transmitted by a local FM radio station or by satellite. The
- Signal Data Link is a 1-2-3 template that interfaces with the Signal
- receiver to update Total Investor portfolios and HQFILES. This a very
- low cost way to keep an extensive security database . End of day
- service currently costs $65 per month for an unlimited number of
- quotes. Please note, the FNN Linc program that ties 1-2-3 to the
- receiver via RS-232 will not operate with Quattro Pro.
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- The Compuserve and DJN/R Data Links require a modem and
- communication software such as Procomm to capture quotes from these
- data services in ASCII files. Both historical and current data is
- available from these sources. The data link templates will then
- process this ASCII data to update the portfolios and HQFILES of Total
- Investor.
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- The Compuserve Data Link can generate a batch file, called a
- TICFILE, that is used to automatically query Compuserve for each
- security in a Total Investor portfolio. This TICFILE is uploaded to
- Compuserve which will then create a ASCII PRN file filled with quotes
- for you to download. The QQUOTE database of Compuserve is used for
- current quotes while the PRICE database is used for historical quotes.
- Per quote charges of $.01 per current quote and $.05 per historical
- quote apply in addition to online charges.
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- The DJN/R Data Link can generate script files for Procomm that
- will automate the data retrieval function. These script files will
- automatically query the database and capture the session in an ASCII
- file. The //CQE database of DJN/R is used for current quotes and the
- //HQ database is used for historical data. The //HQ database carries
- approximately 1 year of data on preferred and common stocks, warrants,
- and rights. Only online charges apply to these databases, not per
- quote charges.
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- Data Link templates are provided with on-disk documentation.
- Detailed instructions and a tutorial are included.
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- If You Wish To Order
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- Total Investor is a powerful yet economical tool to use in
- managing your financial assets. Use the order form on the following
- page if you wish to purchase Total Investor.
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- ORDERING INFORMATION
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- Please use this form when placing an order.
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- Remit to: Hughes Financial Services
- P.O. Box 1244
- Nashua, N.H. 03061-1244
- Please send :
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- Quantity
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- ____ Total Investor Package (1-2-3 Version)......@ $ 45.00 ea $ ______
- (Includes Registration/Program/Printed Manual/Stocks)
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- ____ Total Investor Package (Symphony Version).. @ $ 50.00 ea $ ______
- (Includes Registration/Program/Stocks )
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- ____ Compuserve Data Link (1-2-3 Version)........@ $ 25.00 ea $ ______
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- ____ Dow Jones News/Retrieval Data Link .........@ $ 35.00 ea $ ______
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- ____ Signal Data Link (1-2-3 Version)............@ $ 45.00 ea $ ______
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