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Long Term Stock Information

Long-term stock information is located to the right of a long-term chart. The stock chart that is in view is Microsoft (MSFT) and the information in the tan area pertains to Microsoft. To view a symbol, you can either select a stock from a user list or you can type the symbol and click the enter key. You can widen this list area by moving your mouse on the left border that meets the chart until a double arrow occurs. Then hold the left mouse button down and drag to the left.

Starting at the top, a User List with 3617 stocks was selected. The name of the User List is in the light blue dropdown box. The current User List name is NASDAQ and you can select any other user list by using the dropdown arrow. You can create you own user lists (using the wizard or magnifying glass icon) or you can use a program default user list. The NASDAQ user list is a default list, as well as the NYSE, Amex, Mutual Funds, Indexes, Toronto, Vancouver and Decision Day Stocks. These lists cannot be removed and these list names are reserved for program use only. You can click the down arrow to view the other available stock user lists. In this case the User List, which is all of the NASDAQ stocks contains a list of 3617 stocks. The stock chart that is in view (MSFT) does not necessarily have to belong to this user list.

Next to the "User List" label are three icons. The first icon, the lightning bolt, allows you to do a quick download of prices on this list after the market closes or after 4:30. This will only work for licensed users of Best Choice. The next icon, the heart, allows you to add a user entered stock symbol into the currently displayed list. The third icon, the trash can, allows you to delete the currently displayed stock from the user list. This is assuming it is in the list. If it is not in the list, then there is nothing to delete.

The "Sort By" criteria are in the light green dropdown box below the User List. This criteria allows you to sort the User List in a number of ways. Currently, the User List is sorted by Symbol. If you reselect the Symbol list, it will sort the symbols in descending order. Other criteria that your can search by are exchange, price and earnings growth rates, extreme %, avg volume, stock price, win/loss ratio, avg volatility $, avg volatility %, and short term rating.

Next to the "Sort By" label are three icons. The first icon, the Question Mark, displays a message box with all the user lists that contain the currently displayed symbol. The second icon, the 2 sheets of paper, will display another message box, that allows you to copy this symbol to another user list that is not the active list. The third icon, the scissors, will allow you to move the currently displayed stock from the current user list to another user list.

The List box below the "Sort By" box contains the list of stocks in the User List. You can click on a symbol and that stocks chart will appear. You can also use the up and down arrows to scroll through your charts.

In the tan area is the symbol of the stock, in this case "MSFT" and we identify that the stock has long-term options that are called "Leaps". If the stock has short-term options, then you will see the word "Options". If it has no options, it will be blank. Below this is the name of the company and the Exchange that the stock is listed on.

Below that are the Price and Earnings growth rates. The growth rates are calculated from the chart data and the center yellow and green lines represent them respectively. If you change the time frame, you will have selected a different set of data and the growth rate calculations will be different. Generally, the long-term growth rates are slow to change. The P/E ratio is listed next. In this case, you could see from the chart that the stock closed at about $27 and the annualized quarterly earnings are 98 cents. This would give rise to a 27.6 P/E ratio.

The Extreme % is next and this is a measure or where the close is in relationship to the average price. A 50% extreme level would be right on the average annual growth rate line. This is where half the time prices are above it and half the time prices are below it. A 10% extreme level would be on the lower alert line. The reading of 5.9 on Microsoft means that the price is currently low in relation to Microsoft's long-term growth rate.

The 20-Day moving average of volume is next and finally in the list is Price and Earnings Consistency ratings. A stock that has a consistency rating of 99.9 would be virtually a straight sloping line with no volatility. For example, a bank that pays a fixed annual interest rate of 5% would have no volatility and have a rating of 100%. The more stock prices are wildly volatile, the lower the consistency rating would be. Most long-term investors want a high consistent, high growth rate stock.

The last item on the bottom is a description of what the company does

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