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Getting Started with Incredible Charts
Premium Service
Incredible Charts offers two services:
- free end-of-day data suitable for students and weekend browsers; and
- a Premium Service with more frequent updates and premium indicators and stock screen filters.
Select Help >> Free Trial of Premium Data Service on the chart menu to activate a 30-day free trial of the Premium Service. When the free trial expires you can either subscribe or continue with the free service.
Select a Stock or Index
There are no lengthy data downloads. Data is fetched directly from our online database when you select a stock symbol.
- Select an Exchange on the toolbar
- Enter the security symbol
- Click
Load Security or hit
the Enter key.
For alternate methods to find a stock, see Select/Find a Stock.
Select a Chart
You can use the toolbar below, or the View menu, to select chart type, time frame and price scale.
There are five basic chart types available:
Close
plots a single line representing closing price
OHLC uses bar charts with
Open High Low and Close to reflect price performance
Candlesticks highlight the
relationship between opening and closing prices
EquiVolume combines price and
volume information to confirm price movements
Point And Figure focuses on
price movements to identify support, resistance & chart patterns
See Chart Types for further details.
Change the Time Period
To change the chart time frame, select Time Period on the main menu.
