MarketBrowser Appendix A -
Customize Your MarketBrowser

In this appendix, we'll show you how to work faster and get more satisfaction by helping you customize MarketBrowser AE.

1. Update your One-Click Drill-Down Button Preferences

Your One-Click Drill-Down Buttons make research incredibly fast and easy. Click the "Quote" button to get a quote from your favorite source for your selected stock. "Profile", "News", and other buttons offer the same convenience. So what if you want to assign new sources to these buttons? The first step is to open the MarketBrowser AE 'Favorites' menu. From there you can:

Change Your Preferred Portal - Select the 'Preferred Portal' option to change the source for ALL your buttons. (You can also change your pull-down menu selection from here) Mix & Match Sources - Select 'Mix and Match' to assign your favorite source to each button.

2. Select Your Favorite Symbols

MarketBrowser AE allows you to save stock, fund, metals, currencies, ETFs, and index names as favorites. To add a symbol to your favorites, just right-click a chart and select 'Add to Favorites'. Then, when you want to chart one of your favorites, pull down the 'Favorites' menu and make your selection. MarketBrowser will then add this to the active chart.

3. Alter Your Charts

MarketBrowser lets you toggle easily between different charting styles. The following picture shows 'Graph Style' toolbar button; displayed as a red line over a black histogram.

Clicking this button will toggle your chart between a line representation, traditional bars, Japanese candlesticks and a tabular view (which shows the actual numerical values instead of a chart).

You can also use:

• The 'Grids' button - - to change the gridlines on the chart
• The 'Axes' button - - to adjust the layout of the chart axis labels
• or The 'Drawing Toolbar' button - - to add trend-lines, text, or other annotation to your chart.

4. Manage Your Layout

MarketBrowser AE gives you plenty of control over your layout. Manage your layout with the 'Windows' menu items (or shortcut to many of these options by right-clicking the mouse):

5. Change Your MarketBrowser AE Preferences

MarketBrowser can be customized in many ways to suit your needs and preferences. The main choices governing settings are accessible from the 'File' -> 'Preferences' menu options. The following choices, as displayed in the screenshot, are available to customize your MarketBrowser settings.

• Startup... ~ Control the startup behavior of MarketBrowser: auto load last worksheet used, auto refresh worksheets when opened, set number of charts in new worksheets, auto-start MarketBar in addition to system tray icon.
• Monitors... ~ Control the format of market monitors: what fields to display, monitor coloring settings, show or hide the window/chart numbers (more info below).
• Auto Legend... ~ Control when the chart legend is displayed if it's turned on for the current chart.
• Printing... ~ Control printing defaults. Choose black and white or color printing and what parts of a window/chart get printed.
• Data Retrieval Defaults... ~ Control the default data retrieval options, notably the data fields and time frame used.
• Clickover... ~ Control when web link clickovers will open a new web browser window.
• Email Address... ~ Change your email address (used when sending questions to us from within MarketBrowser).
• Advanced... ~ Used to address connectivity issues (recommend not to change unless request by our technical support).
• Shutdown... ~ Choose whether MarketBrowser should auto-save worksheets when shutting down computer without first closing MarketBrowser.

6. Customize Your Chart Labels

Your Chart Label is the dark blue title bar at the top of each chart.

You can customize this label in MarketBrowser AE. To customize Chart Labels, simply navigate to the menu option: 'File' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Monitors...' which will bring up the dialog box displayed below (right). Notice the 3 Monitor Label Settings:

Label Style:
This option allows you to control which information fields are displayed or hidden in the market monitor. The menu option shows the titles of the fields displayed from left to right. So the fields displayed in the .COMPX image above are those selected in the Label Style. From left to right they are:

• Ticker Symbol: .COMPX (field name: Sym)
• The Latest Price: 2066.10 (field name: Price)
• The Price Change Since Yesterday's Close: +12.73 (field name: Change)
• The Percent Change Since Yesterday's Close: +.061% (field name: %Change)

The three dashes in the Label Style image right-justifies the field that comes after it (in this case, the %Change). Other information you can display or hide are:

• Data Fields: typically CHLO i.e. close, high, low and open (field name: Field)
• Periodicity: i.e. '3 Month', 'YTD', '1 Year'... (field name: TimeFrame)

Color in Label:
Prices climb and the information on the label turns green. They fall, and you'll see red. Stay even and white text will rule the day. This option lets you choose which items on the bar are color coded:

• "Color Entire Label" - All monitor items gets colored based on price movement.
• "No Color in Label" - All monitor items remain white at all times.
• "Color Some of Label" - Only some monitor items get colored (default).

Window Numbers:
Turning the window numbers on (e.g. "W1") can be helpful when building custom formulas, but sometimes you want them off. Use this option to hide or display the window numbers!

• "Always Hide" - Window numbers are always hidden (default).
• "Display when in Charts View" - Window numbers are shown only when in Charts view.

Thank you for reading...

We hope you have enjoyed this MarketBrowser AE appendix. If you have suggestions or topics you would like to see, please contact us.

Welcome to the MarketBrowser family!

Warmest Regards,
The MarketBrowser Team

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