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Find a stock, select a chart type, add indicators, adjust the screen view and change the time period.

How to plot indicators or compare stocks or indexes.

How to draw trendlines and captions

How to create, edit and review watchlists

How to create and customize a project

A brief example of how to find trending stocks using the Stock Screener.

Select a stock by entering the symbol in the securities toolbar.

Find a stock or index by searching for the security name or symbol.

Add exchanges to the stock menu list.

Browse securities menus alphabetically or by sector.

Import data from files on your computer - in descending date order.

How to select a time frame to display on your chart such as 6 months, 1 year, 5 years

Scroll back/forward on the time axis with the scrolling toolbar.

Drag your mouse pointer to zoom in on a specific chart period

Use the View menu to switch between chart intervals such as minute, hourly or daily bars.

Display temporary values for incomplete periods on Daily, Weekly and Monthly charts, before completion of the full period.

Use the scroll buttons on the toolbar to simulate actual trading conditions.

Draw trendlines on a chart.

Incredible captions - highlight buy and sell signals and record your observations right on the chart...

Trend channels are used to track the momentum of a trend, with peaks (or highs) frequently respecting the upper trend channel; and troughs (or lows) respecting the lower ...

Project Fibonacci extension levels from a present trend.

Project Fibonacci retracement levels from an existing trend.

Customize indicators to suit your needs. Add new indicators plus Point and Figure charts.

Some indicators are only available to Premium Data subscribers or during a free trial.

The Relative Strength indicator is set up using the Price Comparison indicator. Indicators are saved to your Project ...

Smooth indicator lines with an exponential moving average.

Use the Legend to amend indicator colors on a chart. Click the color button alongside the indicator title.

Use the Legend function to temporarily hide an indicator or the price bars

From Stan Weinstein's Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets - a breakout model for trading stocks and shares in a longer time frame ...

Formats to display or hide indicators below the price chart.

Chart types, log and normal scale, legends, crosshairs, price and time axes, indicator views and screen splits.

Formats to display or hide indicators below the price chart.

Use cross-hairs to line up bars on a chart, or to check dates or price levels.

Use log scale to view charts with large price variations, normal scale for shorter-term charts.

Adjust scales for the price and time axes

Display the chart legend, show/hide indicators and edit their colors.

Candlesticks, bar charts, equivolume, candlevolume and point and figure

How to identify trends, control, commitment, uncertainty, inside and outside days.

The greatest advance in the last decade, equivolume exposes price and volume interaction.

Candlesticks are colored according to opening and closing price, OHLC by comparing closing price to the previous close.

Suitable Point & Figure settings: log or normal scale; box size and reversal amounts; and pricing method.

Create custom Point and Figure chart s from the Indicator Panel.

Save time: Add securities to your watchlist.

Creating watchlists with Excel

Organize your securities into multiple watchlists.

Set up daily or weekly watchlist emails that can be exported to spreadsheet.

Recently used project files are displayed as tabs below the price chart (and indicators), above the bottom price bar. Click on a tab, for example [Relative Strength], to display the project ...

Create new project files for your separate trading systems. Save all customized chart and indicator settings.

Set a project to open with a custom security, time period, chart interval, chart type and log/normal scale.

A project contains a set of indicators, trendlines, captions and default settings. A project does not contain data relating to specific securities. All data is stored in a ...

20-minute delayed ASX and SGX updates, and 15-minute delayed LSE, TSX, NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX updates.

Stocks may be adjusted for the dilution effect of share splits, special dividends, rights issues, spin-offs and reconstructions. Here are some examples ...

Incredible Charts fetches packets of data from the server as you chart each stock - eliminating the need for daily data downloads. The data format is not compatible with other charting software.

Import data from files on your computer - in descending date order.

Advice on converting times in different countries.

Customize indicator colors, chart gridlines and background colors to suit your needs.

Chart types, log and normal scale, legends, crosshairs, price and time axes, indicator views and screen splits.

Candlesticks are colored according to opening and closing price, OHLC by comparing closing price to the previous close.

Use the Legend to amend indicator colors on a chart. Click the color button alongside the indicator title.

This page explains some of the issues surrounding actual construction of the charts ...

ASX Options are issued with a six letter code....

ASX Warrants are issued with a six letter code...

ASX Indices ...

Dow Jones US & Global Indexes ...

Dow Jones US Sector Indexes ...

NASDAQ Indexes ...

NYSE Indexes ...

Other North American Indexes ...

Philadelphia Exchange (PHLX) Indexes ...

Standard & Poors (S&P) US Sector Indexes ...

Standard & Poors (S&P) US & Global Indexes ...

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Indexes ...

Create handy print copies of charts.

Save charts as bitmap or png images.

Effortlessly send charts to your friends.

Menu and toolbar commands.

Shortcut keys to activate Incredible Charts commands from the keyboard.

Left-click and right-click commands for toolbars

OHLC Volume and Date are displayed on the price bar below the chart.

It is advisable to backup your watchlists and project files on a regular basis.

Easily undo or redo recent changes.

Transfer or back up your project files (indicators, trendlines and captions) and watchlists ...

Commands that are complex or infrequently used are placed under View >> Advanced Options

Premium members can hide the top banner and right margin advertising banners ...

You may wish to customize your watchlist and menu settings to reduce the number of sub-folders

When you have downloaded Incredible Charts, follow these steps to install the program.

To uninstall, open Uninstall.exe in the Incredible Charts folder

Incredible Charts automatically updates when when there is a new version available on the server.

There is no special Mac version but some users successfully run Incredible Charts with Vitual PC.