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• New Stock Alerts Features
• Data
• Adding stocks to a stock list
• Set up an Advanced Alert
• Additional Info
• Firefox Users

New Stock Alert Features

We have released an interim update for our Alert service which allows users to combinestock alerts together. These Advancedstock Alerts will allow for additional price, volume and fundamental filters, improving the quality of thestockstock alerts delivered to you.

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Data

Our next update set for release mid-August will provide dedicated 15-min delayed and historical so to give you closing prices from leading European and American markets from IDC (Interactive Data Corporation).

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Adding stocks to a stock list

Stocklists can now be created by entering the symbol name, separated by a comma, in lots of 10 stocks or so (there is a character limit on the input box so the exact number of stocks which can be added at any one time will vary depending on the character length of the stock symbols)

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Set up an Advanced Alert

To set up an Advanced Alert it is necessary to have, or to create, at least twostock alerts for a single stock or stocklist. Combination Alerts cannot be constructed from individualstock alerts of different stocks or stocklists.

• Step 1: Create the basicstock alerts on which an Advanced Alert will be built. In the following example I have created three individualstock Alerts for the stocklist, Active Trader
  
  
• Step 2: Next click on the "Advanced Alerts" tab to create the combined alert. You will notice check boxes at the end of each Alert
  
  By checking the relevant boxes you can combine individualstock alerts into a combined Advanced Alert. As soon as a checkbox is selected it reduces the field of options to only thosestock alerts which can be combined together
  
  
• Step 3: Once you have selected all of the combinations you require (in the above example it's just two) you give the Alert a name:
  
  And hit
  You can then go back to your Alert List to see the new Advanced Alert:
  
  
• Step 4: You can then look at the Historical Test to see how the new Advanced Alert performed in the past. You will first have to select to bring up the Advanced Alert historical test
  
  

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Additional Info

In practical terms, the Advanced Alert filters componentstock alerts to days when all triggers are met on the same day. In the aforementioned example, Apple (AAPL) on January 10^th 2007 gapped higher by 2% and made a new 120-day high - triggering an Advanced Alert.

The historical test can be used to compare the performance of componentstock alerts to that of the Advanced Alert. The default look back period is 1 calendar month from the period of January 1^st 2007 to August 1^st 2008. In the earlier example, the 2% gap and new 120-day high alerts performed similarly when studied independently. However, these twostock alerts in combination had a strong bearish bias with the average price of stocks on the list falling by $3.31, with a 1 calendar month average high of +$3.02, and an average loss of -$9.24.

There is no restriction to the number of combinations allowed for an Advanced Alert. The more complex or restrictive the alert conditions, the fewerstock alerts will be received.

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Firefox users

Users of Firefox may need to delete their history (Options - Privacy - [Clear Now]) and reload thestock Alerts page to resize the tool to fit the page

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