New Computer Investing Products

Market Dynamics

Market Dynamics is a technical charting tool for point & figure charts. Clay Allen is the program creator and also provides the program support. Allen is a CFA charterholder with 40 years of investing experience.

Point & figure charts consist of columns of X’s and O’s that represent price movements. However, they remove the effects of time from the analysis process and filter out insignificant price movements.

The idea behind the program is to quickly identify changing patterns and trends that might offer potential entry and exit points for investors. Allen uses long-term relative strength (versus the S&P 500) point & figure charts to do this.

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Allen recommends using 80% fundamental data for purchases and 80% technical analysis for selling stocks. He believes that underperforming investments can drag down an entire portfolio. Market Dynamics is designed to help investors identify and eliminate problem investments.

To use the program, simply enter any ticker symbol or company name. The chart shows the relative strength versus the S&P. You can add bullish support and bearish resistance lines along with trendlines.

Performance alerts are automatically generated based on four technical analysis sell rules. You can read about these in the program’s tutorial. You can print and save the charts for later use.

Allen sends E-mails to subscribers with updated data for the program, which must be manually installed. You will also receive weekly essays and new charting patterns that Allen is working on.

Along with fully functioning versions of the program for stocks, exchange-traded funds and mutual funds, the CD-ROM includes a PDF copy of Allen’s book “Winning the Performance Game” and a complete collection of weekly essays.

System Requirements: Windows 98 or higher

Price: $500/yr.; free three-month trial (request by E-mail)

Clay Allen

7325 S. Jackson Street

Centennial, CO 80122

(303) 804-0507

www.clayallen.com

clayallen@msn.com

Personal Finances Pro

Personal Finances Pro is a downloadable software program that helps users track their finances. The program groups expenses and income into categories to help determine where money is flowing from and to.

The program allows for multiple accounts (checking, savings and credit cards) to be created. Adding income and expense transactions to each account is simple using the program’s wizard. You can set up recurring transactions as well as label, tag and assign each transaction to a specific family member. A button called “QExpense” brings up your commonly used expense labels so you do not have to re-enter them each time.

A checkbook-like register shows the expenses and income sources over each month as well as the balance of various checking accounts and credit cards. A calendar view provides a quick look at your remaining balances for each day or week of the month.

Additionally, you can create a budget that divides spending goals into various categories like clothing, entertainment and food.

A reconciliation tab allows you to balance your transactions with your reported cash balance, as you would balance your checkbook against a bank statement. The system will perform the reconciliation automatically and alert you of discrepancies. You can make changes as needed.

You can generate reports showing income versus expenses as a whole or broken down by category as well as trends over various time periods. The reports can be customized by chart type and time period and can also be printed and saved.

System Requirements: Internet connection

Price: $34.95, personal license; $44.95, family license (for use on up to three PCs). Also offers a Home version (no advanced budgeting or account reconciliation): $24.95, personal; $29.95, family; and a free version with limit of 200 transactions.

Alzex Software

www.financessoftware.com

support@financessoftware.com

AbleTrend

AbleTrend is a program for charting end-of-day or real-time data. If you are using real-time data, you must have a subscription with a compatible third-party vendor.

Creating new charts is simple: Enter the ticker symbol, timeframe, chart type (open, high, low, close; line; or candlestick), color and weight of the lines, and the tick spacing.

By clicking the STM icon, you can add AbleTrend’s trend one (buy and sell signals), trend two (dynamic support and resistance) and 10-day exponential moving average trendlines to the chart.

The “An” shortcut button is used for adding technical indicators. Available indicators include: six proprietary indicators, Bollinger bands, moving averages, percent ranks, relative strength indexes and more. You can add multiple indicators at once and customize the line colors and weights. Indicator templates can be saved to use on additional charts in the future. You can create multiple charts at once and save them as one workspace.

Chart settings can be customized by choosing the background color and font and inserting a grid.

Right-clicking the chart allows quick access to chart formatting and editing. You can also use this feature to draw lines and denote crossovers and certain points on the graphs. For more detailed information about a specific bar or point on the chart, you can choose the “Inf” button.

The Web site provides a instructional video with information on how to install and use AbleTrend. You can also get one-on-one support (including during the trial period).

System Requirements: Windows 2000 or higher; Internet connection; Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. For real-time data, you need a subscription to a third-party data feed. For a list of compatible feeds, go to: www.wintick.com/home/requirements.

Price: $2,076/yr., end-of-day data; $2,758/yr., real-time data; 30-day pay trial

AbleSys Corporation

20954 Corsair Boulevard

Hayward, CA 94545

(888) 272-1688

www.wintick.com

sales@ablesys.com

MadScan

MadScan is a software program that alerts active traders of technical indicator movements within milliseconds of the event happening. After you download and install the software, you can configure the alerts you would like to receive.

Signal alerts are numerous and range from price (open, close, high and low over varying periods), candle patterns and moving averages, to multiple additional technical indicators, trend reversals and custom alerts. You can learn about each alert type at the Web site. The alert window displays all of your alerts at once.

You can also create filters that will exclude any alerts that don’t meet specific criteria. Filters again range from technical indicators to news, earnings announcements and analyst actions. For example, you can filter for news that was posted within the last hour.

The Elite version includes streaming real-time news and charting tools with the ability to display four charts at once. News comes from a number of sources including popular newswire services. There are a number of drawing tools including arcs and Fibonacci retracements.

For each program, you have a choice of exchanges (Amex, NASDAQ or NYSE). Historical data is available also. Alerts are generally used only for real-time data.

System Requirements: Windows 2000; Internet connection

Price: $64.99/mo., Standard; $89.99/mo., Elite version; $1 per month for each exchange added; free 30-day trial

MadScan

3109 Sterling Road, Suite 201

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312

(888) 204-0296

www.madscan.com

sales@madscan.com