Step 1 - Market Analyst 6 Layout
This first article will take you through the Market Analyst layout. You will see where most common features can be located and accessed. This includes...
Page Tabs, Menu Buttons, Tool Bars, History Bar, Page / Layer Buttons, Actions Bar, Charting Window, Right Click menu and the Info Panel.
Step 2 - Opening a Chart
This second article will take you through the various methods available for opening a chart in Market Analyst.
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To watch a video on how to tile two charts in Market Analyst click here.
Step 3 - Applying Tools
Market Analyst has over 200 tools available for you to analyse the market with. This section will cover only a handful of these tools from some of the tool groups available. This will provide you with an understanding of how tools in Market Analyst are applied, adjusted and combined with other tools (depending on your version).
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Step 4 - Workbooks
Market Analyst provides you with a unique way of organising your charts into pages within a workbook.
A Market Analyst Workbook can have an unlimited number of pages, and on each of those pages there can be an unlimited number of charts. A page can consist of Bar Charts, Swing Charts, Notes, or any of the other Market Analyst Charts. A chart can then consist of any number of windows. Each window holds any number of data displays, tools, and/or indicators. To view several articles on workbooks click here.
Step 5 - Templates
Templates are a great time saving function in Market Analyst. Templates allow you to set up a page, or workbook using various time frames, tools and chart styles and have those settings used for any new pages that you open. For example, if you always use a 150 period Moving Average on your charts, and prefer Swing Relations as your Bar Chart’s colour scheme, you can set up this layout once as a Template. With that Template selected, all new charts that you open will display the Moving Average and preferred Colour Scheme.
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Step 6 - Scanning Manager
The Market Analyst Scanning Manager has been designed as an instrument to save you time. Where in the past there was a need to manually look over charts, Market Analyst has automated the process for you. Simply enter in your scan’s criteria, the data you want to scan and the date at which the criteria needs to be met, and Market Analyst does the rest.
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Step 7 - Custom Tool Bar
Custom Tools folder is a great location to save all your favourite tools into one group, using the settings you want. You can even add the same tool multiple times with different settings.
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Step 8 - Training Mode
Implementing a new trading plan, or testing an existing one can often be a time consuming exercise, as you need to wait for the days to pass before results start appearing. To overcome this, Market Analyst brings to you an excellent training tool called the Trade Tracker, which allows you to do in minutes what would otherwise take weeks. With a couple of clicks of the mouse, you can take your chart back in time two weeks or even two years, and simply add one bar at a time, effectively giving you a real trading simulation. While your charts are updating, all of the indicators that you have applied are also updating, allowing you to see weeks of trading action within a matter of minutes.
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Step 9 - Practical Tips and Time Savers
There are dozens of settings, shortcuts and time saving features included with Market Analyst, it can be easy to miss something which could significantly speed up your analysis.
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To watch a video of some time saving features on the Cross Hair click here.
Step 10 - Sector Map
For many years a good way to pick stocks was to compare its performance relative to others in the same sector. To be thorough you would also need to compare different sectors to see which way the sectors were moving. All of this added up to many scans and many hours spent studying charts to see how the stocks and sectors compared. Not anymore, in this article I’ll show you a way that you can use Sector Maps to quickly identify stocks that are worth more detailed analysis.
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Step 11 - Portfolio Manager
Market Analyst includes a Portfolio Manager, allowing you to keep track of trades, including paper trading accounts for testing new trading strategies. Additional there is an Account Manager and Reports generator.
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Step 12 - 3rd Party Real-Time Data and Order Entry
A number of 3rd party data vendors include a brokerage service as part of their package. Charts using data from these supported vendors allow you to place trades directly from the right click interface.
To view which data vendors are compatible with Market Analyst click here.
To view several articles on using various live data providers in Market Analyst click here. To view a video of GFTFX data being set up and used in Market Analyst click here.
Step 13 - The Subscription Manager
Included in Market Analyst is a Subscription Manager which can be used to view and change your contact details, data subscriptions, payment details (including credit card details) and product add-ons.
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Step 14 - More Information
By now you should have a basic understanding of the main features in Market Analyst 6, however there is much more information and support available to you:
