Overview of the Main Window
The following sections describe the components (such as buttons and text boxes) of this window. When using AutoShare, you can click your right mouse button on most components to display specific help.
Update button
Updates AutoShare by downloading from the Internet all the share price information necessary to bring it to the current day.
Save button
Saves onto the hard drive all the share price information currently loaded. This button is disabled if no changes have been made since you last saved.
Undo button
If you click this button after changes have been made, the share price information reverts to the last-saved version, undoing all changes made since you last saved. If you click this button when no changes have been made, the information reverts to the backup, which is the version before the last-saved version.
Help button
Displays the help for AutoShare. The ? button is a toggle for What’s This? Help. When it is pressed down, you can click any control in AutoShare to display specific help. You can also display such context-sensitive help by clicking a control and pressing F1.
Exit button
Closes the application. If you have made changes since last saving, you are first asked if you want to save these changes.
Based on the setting of two moving averages, this tab displays lists of shares whose shorter moving average has risen above or fallen below their longer moving average. The moving averages also appear on the graph for each share, shown on the graph to the right.
Displays a list of shares whose price has risen or fallen over the specified time period.
The top half of this tab displays a list of shares that are judged to have been delisted from their stock market index, and enables you to remove them or combine them with other shares (in the event of a name change). The bottom half displays a list of shares that have been recently added to their stock exchange.
Lists shares whose price is within the specified percentage of their year high or low.
Lists the shares in your portfolio, showing their date of purchase and percentage change in value since then. You can add or remove shares by either dragging them to or from the Shares list box, or by using the Add button or Remove button.
Allows you to discover how much profit particular settings of moving averages would have produced historically.
Allows you to select the indices (for example, FTSE 250) you are interested in. This tab also contains options for importing and exporting price files, adding to each listed share name the symbol of the index to which they belong, and excluding shares whose price is above or below a certain level.
Search box
Type a search string in the box to search for the closest match in the Shares list box below.
Shares list box
A list of all shares belonging to the indices selected on the Indices tab and that they are not excluded by the Exclude shares options at the bottom of the Indices tab. You can select a share to view its historical price data on the right of the window, and to determine the other lists on which it appears (for example, on the Risers & Fallers tab).
On the right of the AutoShare window the price information for the selected share is shown. At the top is a grid detailing the share’s price on each market day of the last year, and below is a graph of price against time, along with graphs of any moving averages that you have specified on the Averages tab.
Range list
Changes the period covered by the graph and used during backtests.