Overview

Introduction

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.

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.

List box items are shown in italic like: Background

Examples of control file contents are shown in fixed spaced courier type like this line.


SSChart Concepts

The basic units of the SSChart main window are the chart window, and the SLFMap window. Each chart window may contain the price, volume, and studies for a stock symbol. You can create and save as many chart windows as you wish. Each SLFMap window contains all symbols from a symbol list file. The symbols in a SLFMap window are updated with price information in real time.

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

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