ProTA: Features Table

Features Table

COMPATIBLE MARKETS & SECURITIES:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
Stocks • Mutual Funds • Indices • Futures • Options • Bonds • Spot Markets • General Market	Yes!	Yes!
SUPPORTED DATA VENDORS & FORMATS:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• ACSII Data CD ROM's • BeeSoft • Dial Data (Fully automated via internet downloading) • MetaStock ASCII formats • Quicken • Spreadsheets (Excel, etc.) • Text files (Any tab, comma or space delimited formats) • Yahoo! • Virtually any web-based data source that provides data in a comma, tab or space delimited format	Yes!	Yes!
DATA MAINTENANCE FEATURES:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Securities: Unlimited in number, 135 years of daily data per file • Editing: Integrated spreadsheet-like interface • Automatic Internet Downloading: Via Dial Data (optional, fee service) • Importing: Universal Text Importer handles virtually all ASCII text formats; Copy/Paste entire files • Manual data entry: Integrated spreadsheet-like interface • Price Adjustments: Stock splits, Mutual Funds distributions, Futures continuous contract rollovers • Audit: Missing dates, invalid dates, blank fields, unusual values • Exporting: Custom formats; Copy/Paste entire files • Notes: Save news clippings, brokerage recommendations, trading notes with each security	Yes!	Yes!
CHARTING FEATURES:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Object-orientation: Total control over customization of all chart objects. • Chart Body: Customize colors and style for body background, main heading text, axes and gridlines • Time (X) Axis: 100 levels of spacing/zoom, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly, Calendar periodicity automatically calculated and displayed, custom date range specification, blank date padding at end of chart • Price (Y) Axes: Left/Right/Both/Hidden locations, automatic or manual scaling, logarithmic scaling • Panes: Unlimited number of sub-panes per chart window; resize, relocate, zoom, hide any pane • Plots & Line Studies: Unlimited in number and overlay, drag and drop to relocate, click to reconfigure color/style/parameters, merge overlays in a common price scale or use separate scaling • Exporting: Any plotted Indicator or price line • Text & Symbol Annotations: Unlimited; customize color, background, border; place arrows and/or text notes • Cursor Tools: Crosshairs for color-coded pricing displays of all plots under the cursor; Line tool to draw trendlines and define line studies • Templates: Unlimited; apply manually or assign to groups of charts • Sequential Viewing: Toolbar click, keyboard • Multiple Chart Window Management: Layout tools, save Suites of charts (unlimited in size), automatic Content and/or Time Axis synchronization • Printing: High resolution at printer's maximum resolution, individual or multiple charts per page, batch printing	Yes!	Yes!
PRICE PLOTS & INDICATORS:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
Accumulation/Distribution • Adjusted Data Lines • Advancing/Declining Issues • Average True Range • Bars • Bollinger Bands • Bollinger Put Volume Indicator • Bull/Bear Power • Candlesticks • Chaikin Oscillator • Commodity Channel Index • Comparison Overlays • Detrended Price Oscillator • Directional Movement System • Ease of Movement • Elder Ray • Force Index • Linear Regression Forecast (End-Point Moving Average) • Market Facilitation Index • Median Price • Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) • McClellan Oscillator • Money Flow Index • Moving Averages (Simple, Exponential, Weighted) • Negative Volume Index • Net New Highs/Lows • On Balance Volume • Open Interest • Parabolic SAR • Performance • Point & Figure • Positive Volume Index • Price Volume Trend • Put/Call Ratio • Rate of Change • Relative Performance • Relative Strength Index • Spreads • Standard Deviations • Stochastics • TRIN/Arms Index • TRIYes! • Typical Price • Up/Down Volume • Volatility • Volume • Weighted Closes • Williams' Accumulation/Distribution • Williams' %R • Zig Zag • Customization: Colors, line styles, all computational parameters • Bars: Paint certain bars a unique color based on several technical conditions • Candles: Built-in identification for over 20 common patterns • Indicator Smoothing/Oscillators: Plot moving averages of Indicators; plot the difference between the indicator and its moving average (oscillator)	Yes!	Yes!
LINE STUDIES:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
Cycle Lines • Fibonacci Retracements • Horizontal Line • Linear Regression • Trendlines (Auto-snap to connect Highs or Lows) • Vertical Line	Yes!	Yes!
TABULAR DISPLAY & RANKING:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Sorting: Based on any combination of fields • Screens: Unlimited user-customized Views • Display: Drag-and-drop positioning and sizing of columns, add/remove securities individually or batch • Exporting: via simple Copy/Paste • Dozens of automatically calculated fields:] • Security Name • Security Type • Data file dates: Last Date, First Date, Record Count • Quote values: Open High, Low, Close, Volume, Open Interest; Latest, One Day Prior, One Week Prior, One Month Prior, One Year Prior, End of Last Month, First of This Month, End of Last Year, First of This Year, First Date in Data File, Purchase Date, Specified Date • Price change: Raw Value or % Change; based on any pricing field; One Day, One Week, One Month, Three Months, Six Months, One Year, Week-to-Date, Month-to-Date, Year-to-Date, Since First Date in Data File, Since Purchase Date, Since Specified Date • Range: High - Low Price Range, High of Range, Low of Range, % From Range High, % From range Low, New High/Low Flag; same period options as listed above • Moving average comparisons: Simple, Exponential, Weighted; Raw Moving Average, Points Above/Below Moving Average, % Above/Below Moving Average, Above/Below Flag, Crossover Flag • Volume comparisons: Today's Volume vs. Average Volume • Candlestick Pattern • Quote File Audit • Combine TA ranking displays with Portfolio Tracking fields (below)	Yes!	Yes!
PORTFOLIO TRACKING:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• User-input fields: • Purchase Date • Purchase Date • Number of Shares or Contracts • Multiplier (for Futures positions) • Purchase Price • Purchase Commission • Purchase Fees • Sales Date • Sales Price • Sales Commission • PurcSaleshase Fees • User Values • Trade Comments • Automatically calculated fields: • Cost Basis • Sales Value • Days Owned • P&L • Return on Investment (ROI) • Display and Rank: Extended Dollar or Per Share equivalents, open positions, close positions or all positions, P&L and ROI from purchase date or YTD, MTD, WTD, 12 month, one month, one week, one day, or since any specified date, raw or annualized ROI • All features listed for Technical Display and Ranking are available for Portfolio Tracking displays	Yes!	Yes!
CUSTOM INDICATORS:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Built-in formula-writing language to design and implement your own analyses or those published by others in books/magazines: • 40 common pre-written indicator elements • 24 built-in Candlestick patterns • 20 Math functions (Sum, Log, Slope, etc.) • 4 Date functions (DayOfWeek, DayOfMonth, Day, Month) • Standard formula/programming operands (+, -, *, /, >, <, >=, <=, =, <>,AND, OR, etc.) • Dozens of special sub-functions to assist and ease the process of writing your own indicators (Highest, Lowest, BarsSince, CrossAbove, IsRising, PeakValue, etc.) • Applicable to all major ProTA features: Plotting in a chart, ranking in a portfolio sheet, scan criteria in the database scanner, buy/sell rules in custom trading models, etc.		Yes!
TRADE SYSTEM MODELING:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Customize rules for: Enter Long, Exit Long, Enter Short, Exit Short • Specify stops: Stop Loss, Profit Stop, Trailing Stops, Inactivity Stops, Max Trade Len • Simulate real-world accounting: Commissions, Slippage, Idle Funds Interest Rate • Batch testing/ranking: Multiple securities or Multiple systems • Dozens of system/trade statistic results automatically provided: %winners/losers, drawdowns, risk/reward ratios, day analyses, trade analyses, trade listing, equity analysis, etc. • Charting displays: Buy/Sell arrows, shadings, P&L notations, PaintBars, equity line, etc.		Yes!
PARAMETER / TRADING SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Maximum parameters to optimize per model: 5 • Optimizing options: Net P&L, % P&L, number of trades, Avg. P&L per trade, Max/Min Drawdown, Risk/Reward Ratio, vs. Buy&Hold, etc.		Yes!
DATABASE SCANNING:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Unlimited compound and multiple conditional criteria • Scan results: Rank, Subject to further scanning criteria, Apply pre-set Views		Yes!
EXTENSIBILITY:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• Install new BeeSoft or 3rd-party Indicators, Trading Models, Database Scans via simple drag-and-drop • Share your creations with other ProTA Gold users		Yes!
OTHER NIFTY FEATURES:	ProTA	ProTA Gold
• TickerPicker: Instantaneous access to any security for charting, data display regardless of database size • Built-in 250 page pdf User Manual • Universal Binary means native execution on both PPC and Intel Macs • Fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5	Yes!	Yes!

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